Books, booklets & multimedia

Supporting Children’s Learning
A training programme for foster carers
By Clare Pallett, John Simmonds and Andrea Warman (BAAF 2010)
Prices: £69.95 + VAT non-members price
£49.95 + VAT members price.
This training programme has been designed to help carers support the education of children in their care and enable them to become more confident and effective learners.

Undertaking an Adoption Assessment
A guide to collecting and analysing information for Form PAR in Englands
By Elaine Dibben (BAAF 2010)
Price: £10.95
This guide will help assessing social workers in England to plan, conduct and complete a comprehensive and evidence-based assessment of prospective adopters.

Adopting a Brother or Sister
By Hedi Argent (BAAF 2010)
Price: £3.95
A guide for children and young people, written for the birth children of prospective adopters to explain why their parents might be considering adoption as a way to build their family.

Stepfamily Adoption: What it is and what it means
By Jo Francis (BAAF 2010)
Price: £3.95
A guide for children and young people which explains Stepfamily adoption processes and procedures.

Special Guardianship in Practice
Jim Wade, Jo Dixon and Andrew Richards
BAAF (2010)
Price: £14.95
This pioneering study examines how eight local authorities have responded to the introduction of special guardianship and considers the policy and practice implications that have arisen in the first few years of implementation.

Helping birth families – Services, costs and outcomes
Elsbeth Neil, Jeanette Cossar, Paula Lorgelly and Julie Young
BAAF (2010)
Price: £14.95
This innovative study systematically explores the independent support offered to the birth parents of children adopted through the care system.

Frozen
By Mike Butcher (BAAF 2010)
Price: £7.95
This candid and witty memoir follows one couple on their journey to create a family, revealing how IVF treatment can, and does, go horribly wrong and how a leaflet from a local adoption agency changes their lives forever.