Books, booklets & multimedia

Ten Top Tips for Finding Families
Written by Jennifer Cousins (BAAF 2007)
Price: £7.95
Explores the important issue of recruiting new carers and welcoming a wide range of permanent families. Contains a breadth of information and ideas for both newly qualified social workers and established practitioners.

Every child is special - Placing disabled children for permanence
by Jennifer Cousins (BAAF, March 2006)
Price: £9.95
This Good Practice Guide tracks the converging processes of planning for a permanent home for disabled children, and recruiting suitable families. It examines some of the organisational structures that form the context of this work and highlights the changes that are necessary if more disabled children are to have the security of a permanent family. No one who works with children should think that disability is someone else's issue. This guide is for all childcare workers, children's disability teams, adoption and fostering teams and adoption support agencies.

Right from the Start - Best practice in adoption planning for babies and other children
Jennifer Cousins and Marjorie Morrison with Sushila de Sousa (BAAF, September 2003)
Price: £7.95
In this guide, the authors examine how adoption practice has evolved and chart the changes.

Pushing the Boundaries of Assessment
By Jennifer Cousins (BAAF 2010)
Price: £11.95
A practical workbook and training DVD which present a creative and imaginative range of assessment and preparation techniques for social workers to use with prospective adopters.