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Who am I and What do I do?
By Andrea Warman (BAAF, 2007)
Price: £2.00
This short, colourful information booklet explores some of the key issues surrounding foster care. It uses foster carers’ own words and images to explore their role and identity.
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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.
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Morris and the Bundle of Worries
Written by Jill Seeney (BAAF 2007)
Illustrated by Rachel Fuller
Price: £9.95
A colourful picture book for young children in which Morris the Mole learns that talking about his problems, and facing his worries with the help of others, is more helpful than hiding his fears.
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Adoption Undone
By Karen Carr (BAAF, 2007)
Price: £7.95
This is the true story of an adoption and an adoption breakdown, bravely told by the adoptive mother. From the final court hearing, when Lucy returned to local authority care, Karen Carr looks back over the four years Lucy was with them and, without apportioning blame, describes what went wrong and why.
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Caring for Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children and Young People
By Eileen Fursland (BAAF, 2007)
Introductory pamphlet £3.50
Country specific pamphlet £2.00
A series of pamphlets that aim to help foster carers and others learn about the circumstances that unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and young people have experienced, the effect of traumatic events on these young people, what their needs are likely to be, what issues are important for them now, and how they can help these young people cope with the profound changes in their young lives. The series includes an introductory pamphlet as well as five country specific pamphlets focusing on Afghanistan, China, Eritrea, Iran and Somalia.
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Special Guardianship: What it is and what it means
By Mary Lane and Shaila Shah
BAAF (2007)
Price: £3.95
This practical guide for children and young people provides easily accessible information on special guardianship and answers many of the key questions surrounding what can be a difficult concept.
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Kinship Care: What it is and what it means
By Hedi Argent
BAAF (2007)
Price: £3.95
This short and colourful booklet for children provides an explanation of “kin” and explores why some young people live in kinship care and what is special about it.
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Josh and Jaz have three mums
By Hedi Argent (BAAF, 2007)
Price: £8.95
This brightly illustrated book for young children tells the story of Josh and Jaz, five-year-old twins who have been adopted by a lesbian couple. They are worried that everyone in their class will laugh because they live with two mums and wish that they were like other children who just have one mum and dad. The story helps to explain the diversity and “difference” of family groups and encourages an understanding and appreciation of same sex parents.
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Nutmeg Gets a Little Sister
By Judith Foxon, illustrations by Sarah Rawlings (BAAF, 2007)
Price: £12.00
The adventures of Nutmeg, the small red squirrel, continue with this appealing story exploring family relationships, which can be particularly complicated for adopted children. Nutmeg’s adoptive family is about to grow as his parents have decided to adopt his baby sister, who can’t be looked after by his birth mother any longer. Nutmeg is excited and expectant, but the reality of having a new child in the family also leads to some arguments and difficult adjustments before the family settles happily into their life together.
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Ten Top Tips on Managing Contact
By Henrietta Bond (BAAF, 2007)
Price: £7.95
This accessible, quick reference guide looks at some fundamental positive steps that social workers, adopters and carers can take to ensure that contact is a beneficial experience. The emphasis is on evidence from practice and useful checklists are provided throughout.
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Spark Learns To Fly
Written by Judith Foxon, illustrated by Rachel Fuller (BAAF, 2007)
Price: £9.95
This engaging picture book, designed for use with young children, looks at the difficult issue of domestic violence and what this could mean for the children involved. Spark the little dragon lives happily with his parents and baby sister, Flame, until his mum and dad start fighting. When the children get injured, they have to go and live with a foster carer, who helps them understand their situation and come to terms with their problems and painful emotions.
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The Lamb-a-roo
By Diana Kimpton
Illustrated by Rosalind Bradshaw(Gullane Children’s Books, 2007)
Price: £5.99
A heart-warming picture book that celebrates diversity and the strength of love. It will appeal to young children who have been or are being adopted.
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A marginalised resource?
Recruiting, assessing and supporting single carers
By Bridget Betts (BAAF, 2007)
Price: £9.95
A new Good Practice Guide that examines the legal position on adoption and fostering by single men and women, how agencies can successfully recruit and support single adopters and carers, and the issues that need to be considered when assessing single men and women for adoption and fostering. Contains a wealth of practical guidance as well as signposts to further resources and references.
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Picnic in the Park
By Joe Griffiths and Tony Pilgrim
Illustrated by Lucy Pearce (BAAF, 2007)
Price: £8.95
A fully illustrated book for children which tells the story of Jason’s birthday picnic and the guests who help him to celebrate. In so doing, it introduces children to a range of family structures including two- and one-parent families, adoptive and foster families, gay and lesbian families, step families and more, showing a diverse range of adults and children.
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Adoption & Fostering Journal Special Issue on Education
Guest edited by Sonia Jackson (BAAF, 2007)
Price: £12.00
Focuses on the education of looked-after children and how and where they are supported or – more often – failed by “the system”. Includes articles by practitioners and academics and explores themes such as education and self reliance among care leavers, the barriers to educational achievement for looked-after children and adoptive parents’ views of education.
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Safer Caring
A training programme
Kate Cairns and Eileen Fursland (BAAF, 2007)
Price: £39.95
Foster carers who take on the risk of caring for troubled children need and deserve the best help available. And agencies owe it to them to prepare them as well as possible. This training course aims to give foster carers the knowledge they need to prevent, recognise and get the right treatment for secondary traumatic stress disorders and to assess and manage risk and work as part of a team to provide safer caring.
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Special & Odd
James Mulholland (BAAF, 2007)
Price: £8.95
In this extraordinarily witty, revealing and candid memoir, James Mulholland explores the impact of growing up adopted, searching for and finding his birth mother 29 years after being given up for adoption, and the effect this had on him and his adoptive family. The story begins on a beach in Cornwall and ends when his adoptive parents and birth mother join James in a rehab clinic in the Arizona desert!
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In Black and White
A story of an open transracial adoption
Nathalie Seymour(BAAF, 2007)
Price: £7.95
In Black and White is and extremely honest account of one couple’s attempt to create a family. Looking back over 30 years it describes how Nathalie and Tom establish a transracial family, and how they encourage their two adopted children to remain connected to their birth family and grow up with pride in their heritage. But neither they, nor the professionals advising them, could foresee where this approach would lead and how it would affect the children, their birth family and the whole process of adoption.
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Flying Solo
A single parent's adoption story
Julia Wise(BAAF, 2007)
Price: £7.95
Julia Wise gave up a high-flying career and a hectic life in London to move to the country and pave the way for what would be a life-changing experience – adopting a child on her own. This book tells Julia’s very personal story, but it is one that will resonate loudly with single adopters everywhere. Inspiring and accessible, Flying Solo describes the realities of life as the single parent of an adopted child.
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Trauma and Recovery
A training programme
By Kate Cairns and Eileen Fursland
(BAAF, 2007)
Price: £49.95
This flexible training course has been designed to help social workers, staff in residential homes, foster carers and adoptive parents to understand more about the needs of traumatised children. It explains how carers can help children to adapt to the developmental impairments they have suffered, build resilience in a traumatised child and provide an environment that will enhance healing.
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Preparing children for permanence
A guide to undertaking direct work for social workers, foster carers and adoptive parents
Written by Mary Romaine with Tricia Turley and Non Tuckey (BAAF, January 2007)
Price: £14.95
Planned and focused direct work is an essential and integral part of preparing children for permanence. This guide contains a variety of activities to use in direct work, supported by case studies throughout. It will be a valuable resource for social workers and others who are planning, undertaking and evaluating direct work with looked after children for whom a permanent placement is being planned, as well as for foster carers and adoptive parents.
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