Books, booklets & multimedia

Exchanging Visions:
Papers on best practice in Europe for children separated from their birth parents
(BAAF, 1998)
Price: £6.95
A selection of papers from BAAF's first ever European conference which focused on how to achieve the best possible outcomes for children separated from their birth families.

Feeling Safe - Tina's story
by Sheila Byrne and Leigh Chambers , illustrated by Sarah Rawlings (BAAF, 1998)
Price: £4.00
Part of the "My Story" series of books. This title tells a story about a girl who is sexually abused at home and has to go into foster care.

Whatever Happened to Adam
by Hedi Argent (BAAF, 1998)
Price: £4.95
This remarkable book tells the stories of 20 young people with disabilities and the families who chose to care for them.

Preparing for permenence
Compiled and written by a BAAF working party (BAAF, 1998)
Understanding the assessment process £2.50
Assessment: Points to consider £1.95
Key issues in assessment £3.95

Signposts in Adoption:
Policy, practice and research issues
Edited by Malcolm Hill and Martin Shaw (BAAF, 1998)
Price: £5.00
This unique anthology brings together seminal papers published in BAAF's quarterly journal, Adoption & Fostering.

Children Adopted from Care - An examination of agency adoptions in England - 1996
by Gilles Ivaldi (BAAF, 1998)
Price: £8.95
This study reports on the first detailed analysis of the Department of Health's Children Looked After database.

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.

Lesbian and gay fostering and adoption
Edited by Stephen Hicks and Janet McDermott
Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1998
Price: £16.95
This immensely readable book will be of enormous encouragement to lesbians or gay men considering adoption or fostering.