Books, booklets & multimedia

We Are Family - Sibling Relationships In Placement and Beyond
Edited by Audrey Mullender (BAAF, October 1999)
Price: £5.00
This anthology brings together findings from a range of recent and ongoing research studies into sibling placement.

Delivering Foster Care
by John Triseliotis, Moira Borland and Malcolm Hill (BAAF, December 1999)
Price: £12.95
This book discusses comprehensively the changing nature of fostering from the perspective of recruitment and retention.

Adopted Children Speaking
by Caroline Thomas, Verna Beckford, Nigel Lowe & Mervyn Murch (BAAF, 1999)
Price: £7.50
If you really want to learn about children's wishes and feelings about adoption and their experience of it, this unique book is for you.

Novices, Old Hands, and Professionals: Adoption by single people

by Morag Owen (BAAF, 1999)
Price: £5.00
The first major study of single-person adoption, both descriptive and analytical.

Making Good Assessments: A practical resource guide
BAAF Working Group (BAAF, 1999)
Price: £14.95
This is an invaluable guide for adoption and fostering workers, panel members, decision makers and those tasked with making placements of children.

Myths & Practices -
A national survey of the use of experts in care proceedings
by Julia Brophy, Christopher J Wale and Phil Bates (BAAF, 1999)
Price: £5.95
This research, the first national survey in England and Wales of the use of experts, explores a range of practices by courts, guardians ad litem, local authorities and parents.

Supporting Adoption - Reframing The Approach
Directed by Professors Nigel Lowe and Mervyn Murch (BAAF, 1999)
Price: £10.95
Supporting Adoption offers the most comprehensive review of adoption services in England and Wales in the 1990s.

Working with black children and adolescents in need
Edited by Ravinder Barn (BAAF, 1999)
Price: £12.95
An invaluable collection of practice-based suggestions for improving strategies and techniques of working with black children and adolescents in need.

Joining Together, Jo's Story
by Sheila Byrne and Leigh Chambers , illustrated by Sarah Rawlings (BAAF, 1999)
Price: £4.00
Part of the "My Story" series of books. This title is about a step parent adoption.

The Adoption Experience: Families who give children a second chance
Ann Moris (BAAF , April 2003)
Price:
£13.95
Actual adopters tell it like it is on every part of the adoption process.

First Steps in Parenting the Child who Hurts: Tiddlers and toddlers (2nd edn)
Caroline Archer (JKP, 1999)
Price: £14.99
Primarily aimed at adoptive parents, but of considerable use to foster carers of young children, this book offers practical, sensitive guidance through the areas of separation, loss and trauma in early childhood.

Next Steps in Parenting the Child who Hurts: Tykes and teens
Caroline Archer (JKP, 1999)
Price: £15.95
This volume follows on from the First Steps book and continues the challenging journey through childhood and into adolescence.