Books, booklets & multimedia

Adopting a Child
by Jenifer Lord (BAAF, 2006)
Price: £8.50
With over 60,000 copies already sold, this beginner’s guide is the book for anyone who is thinking of adopting a child or children. Now in its 7th edition it provides essential information and helps explain the adoption process.

Adoption Now - Law, regulations, guidance and standards
By Fergus Smith and Roy Stewart with Deborah Cullen (BAAF, March 2006)
Price: £7.50
Quick to use, comprehensive and portable, this handy pocket book draws together all current legislation, rules, guidance and procedures relating to adoption in England today. It covers all stages of the process and related information – in easily digested bite-sized chunks - and also includes the National Minimum Standards. With all essential information brought together in such a compact format, the busy practitioner and professional will find this little compendium an invaluable quick reference guide and immense timesaver.

Adoption: what it is and what it means
By Shaila Shah with a foreword by Roger Morgan (BAAF, 2003)
Price: £3.50
Presented in accessible and jargon-free language, this colourful guide will provide children with a good introduction to adoption.

Attachment handbook for foster care and adoption
by Gillian Schofield and Mary Beek (BAAF, May 2006)
Price: £24.95
This comprehensive and authoritative book provides an accessible account of core attachment concepts. Vivid case examples are used throughout to make connections with the reality, both the challenges and the rewards, of daily life in foster and adoptive families. This book will be an indispensable resource for practitioners, foster carers, adoptive parents and all those seeking to ensure that children in need of family care get the very best experience possible and that foster carers and adoptive parents get the support they deserve and need.

Attachment, trauma and resilience: Therapeutic caring for children
by Kate Cairns (BAAF, reprinted 2006)
Price: £11.95
Offers an insight into family life with children who have experienced attachement difficulties, loss, abuse and trauma. Over 8,000 copies sold.

A Child's Journey Through Placement
by Vera Fahlberg (BAAF 2004)
Price: £22.50
Clear, informative and full of practical ideas and case examples this is an essential reference and resource book for professionals. Over 17,000 copies sold.

Carer Held Health Record
By Elaine Greaves, Gill Appolinari and Carol Watson (BAAF 2008)
Price: £8.50 (+ £1.49 VAT)
A practical record book designed to store a child’s vital health information consistently and confidentially. It should be maintained by the adults looking after a child but, importantly, the record should accompany a child when he or she moves on to another placement or returns home.

Effective Fostering Panels
Written by Sarah Borthwick and Jenifer Lord (BAAF, 2006)
Price: £7.95
Guidance on regulations, process and good practice in fostering panels in England

Effective Panels - Guidance on good practice on regulations, process and good practice in adoption and permanence panels
by Jenifer Lord and Deborah Cullen (BAAF, 2005)
Price: £9.95
This guide applies to adoption and permanence panels in England and Wales. However, there are separate regulations and guidance for Wales and there are some differences between these and the regulations and guidance for England.

My life and me
by Jean Camis (BAAF 2001, reprinted 2006)
Price: £17.04 (£14.50 + £2.54 VAT)
Colourful life story workbook for use with children separated from their birth families.