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The Cost of Foster Care
Investing in our children’s futures
by Robert Tapsfield and Felicity Collier (BAAF, 2005)
Price: £9.95
A campaigning report that assesses the expenditure which is required to transform foster care services across the UK in order to give children in public care the same opportunities to have a successful future as other children in society.
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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. |
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Unaccompanied asylum seeking children - The response of social work services
By Jim Wade, Fiona Mitchell and Graeme Baylis (BAAF, November 2005)
Price: £12.95
The displacement of unaccompanied young people to countries far from home happens for many reasons, but what unites them all is the experience of being separated from their families and divided from their homes, culture and all that is familiar. How do social services in the UK respond to these young asylum seekers? This groundbreaking study examines many important questions for the first time including: are young asylum seekers entitled to the same service as looked after children and, if so, do they receive it?; how are their needs defined and assessed?; and how do the services provided affect their progress and welfare?
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Child Care Law: A summary of the law in Scotland
By Alexandra Plumtree (BAAF, November 2005)
Price: £8.95
This short but thoroughly comprehensive guide outlines principles and themes as well as the statutory background covering relevant Acts and other legislation. It is designed to provide a basic framework for those who do not need to know more, and a quick overall view for those starting a more detailed study. The guide has been fully revised to reflect the provisions of the Scotland Act 1998, the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001 and the creation of the Care Commission.
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Getting it Right
By Alexandra Plumtree (BAAF, November 2005)
Price: £5.50
This thoroughly updated new edition provides comprehensive advice on the preparation and writing of court reports in Scottish child care cases. A wide range of cases and topics are covered, making this guide an invaluable tool for all those engaged in writing court reports in child care cases.
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Could you be my parent? Adoption and Fostering Stories
Edited by Leonie Sturge-Moore (BAAF, November 2005)
Price: £8.50
This enthralling anthology gathers together the stories of children who need a new permanent family, and the people who have welcomed them into their homes. The informative, often moving accounts, taken from BAAF's family-finding newspaper Be My Parent, create a fascinating snapshot of the process of adoption and foster care, and the experiences of the carers and children involved.
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Just a member of the family
by Bridget Betts (BAAF, September 2005)
Price: £40.00 + £7.50 VAT
This is the first film about adoption from a birth child´s point of view. It features a number of children talking candidly about how they prepared and were prepared for a child joining their family. Guidelines and suggested questions accompany the film. Available in video and DVD.
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Recruiting, assessing and supporting lesbian and gay carers and adopters
by Gerald P. Mallon and Bridget Betts (BAAF, September 2005)
Price: £9.95
This book aims to provide social work practitioners with good practice guidelines for working with lesbian and gay foster carers and adopters. The authors provide an overview of relevant research and explore identities, policy and legislation.
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Relative Benefits: Placing children in kinship care
by Bob Broad (BAAF, September 2005)
Price: £9.95
This book sets out the legal framework for kindship care in England and Wales. It also describes the different types of kinship care and gives detailed guidance on related issues.
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One of the family: A handbook for kinship carers
by Hedi Argent(BAAF, August 2005)
Price: £6.50
This handbook aims to give families and friends who are kinship carers, or may become kinship carers, information about the choices they can make, the assessment process, the legal framework, the child care system, the support they can expect and the financial help available.
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Working with adolescents: Supporting families, preventing breakdown
by Nina Biehal (BAAF, 2005)
Price: £12.95
This book reports the findings of a study, commissioned by the
Department of Health, into the effectiveness of these specialist
support teams.
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Fostering Changes: How to improve relationships and manage difficult behaviour
by Clare Pallett, Kathy Blackeby, William Yule, Roger Weissman and Stephen Scott
(BAAF, 2005)
Price: £100 (discount for two or more copies)
A unique training course to help foster carers of children under 12 manage behavioural difficulties and form positive relationships.
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Looking after our own: the stories of black and Asian adopters
Edited by Hope Massiah (BAAF, 2005)
Price: £9.95
Essential reading for anyone considering adopting a child,
especially those from minority ethnic communities, and for
social services professionals concerned to recruit and retain
black adopters.
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Private Fostering - what it is and what it means
A guide for children and young people
by Henrietta Bond (BAAF, June 2005)
Price: £3.95
Colourful, illustrated and presented in accessible and jargon-free language, this booklet provides a good introduction to private fostering, the process, and what children can expect.
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A better deal
Ann Sutton and Barbara Hudson (BAAF, June 2005)
Price: £7.95
A useful starting point for social work practitioners, this training resource provides a grounding in the process of intercountry adoption.
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The Adoption Triangle Revisited: A study of adoption, search and reunion experiences
By John Triseliotis, Julia Feast and Fiona Kyle (BAAF, 2005)
Price: £9.95
The first British study to explore the individual experiences and perspectives of all the key players in the adoption, search and reunion process.
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Looking after Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking and Refugee Children
by Selam Kidane and Penny Amerena (BAAF, 2005)
Price: £10.00
A training course for social care professionals.
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 | A Bibliography of Family Placement Literature
Edited by John Sudbery, Stephen Hicks, Sheila Thompson, Hugh McLaughlin and Carole Bramley with Katrina Wilson (BAAF, May 2005)
Price: £7.95
A guide to publications on children, parents and carers. |
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Adoption & Fostering Volume 29:1 Spring 2005 - Special bumper issue - Listening to Children
Guest edited by Caroline Thomas and Nigel Thomas (BAAF, 2005)
Price: £7.95 (normally £11)
A special issue of the BAAF journal Adoption & Fostering, focusing on the theme of Listening to Children.
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 | Approaching Fatherhood:
A guide for adoptive dads and others
by Paul May (BAAF, March 2005)
Price: £9.95
This timely and thought provoking book is the first in the UK to combine the experiences and perspectives of adoptive fathers with a guide to the adoption process, from the man's point of view. |
 | If you don't stick with me, who will? The challenges and rewards of foster care
Edited by Henrietta Bond (BAAF, March 2005)
Price: £8.95
This collection of first person accounts tells the stories of complex forms of foster care and what it is like to foster children and young people who have experienced loss, trauma, abuse, or just a very difficult start in life. |
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Loving & Living with Traumatised Children
Megan Hirst (BAAF , February 2005)
Price: £6.50
This book tells the story of nine adoptive parents who came together for mutual support to look at the effects on themselves of living with traumatised children.
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Directory of Intermediary Support Services in England and Wales for Birth Relatives
Julia Feast and Marion Hundleby (BAAF , January 2005)
Price: £14.95
Information on every local authority, voluntary adoption agency, adoption support agency and independent adoption support agency in England and Wales; the services they provide and how to contact them.
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