Books, booklets & multimedia

Ten Top Tips for Placing Siblings
By Hedi Argent (BAAF, July 2008)
Price: £7.95
A practical guide to placing looked after brothers and sisters, which emphasises the importance of getting to know each individual child as well as considering the needs of the sibling group as a whole.

Ten Top Tips for Preparing Care Leavers
By Henrietta Bond (BAAF, July 2008)
Price: £7.95
A practical reference guide for all those working with young people who are preparing to leave care and step into life as independent young adults.

The emotional well-being of young people seeking asylum in the UK
By Elaine Chase, Abigail Knight and June Statham (BAAF, June 2008)
Price: £10.95
A ground-breaking report presenting the findings from an in-depth study of the perspectives and experiences of children and young people arriving unaccompanied to seek asylum in the UK

Listening to refugee children
By Selam Kidane (BAAF 2001, reprinted 2008)
Price: £7.95
The result of a project set up by BAAF’s Refugee Young People’s Forum, this thought-provoking book gives voice to a range of experiences of young unaccompanied asylum-seekers and refugees.

Keeping them in the family
By Joan Hunt, Suzette Waterhouse and Eleanor Lutman (BAAF, June 2008)
Price: £14.95
This timely research study examines the medium term outcomes for children placed in kinship care through care proceedings. It provides valuable information on the benefits and challenges of this form of care and what needs to be done if it is to be used effectively.

Elfa and the box of memories
By Michelle Bell, illustrated by Rachel Fuller (BAAF, May 2008)
Price: £9.95
A colourful picture book for young children which reinforces the importance of memories and the part they play in making us who we are.

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.

Building Identity
By Kate Cairns and Eileen Fursland (BAAF/Akamas, May 2008)
Price: £49.95
Price: £39.95 for members
A training programme designed to help carers help children overcome disruptive early experiences and boost their identity and self-esteem. Includes a CD-ROM containing PowerPoint slide presentations and handouts.

The Teazles’ baby bunny
By Susan Bagnall, illustrated by Tommaso Levente Tani (BAAF, May 2008)
Price: £5.95
This colourful picture book for young children, aged two to four years old, tells the story of the Teazle rabbits and their adoption of a baby bunny.

The Adoption Process in England
By Jenifer Lord (BAAF, April 2008)
Price: £12.95
An informative and accessible guide that takes the reader through the various stages of the adoption process, from planning adoption for a child through to contributing to the court report for the adoption order.

Managing Difficult Behaviour
By Clare Pallett, Kathy Blackeby, William Yule, Roger Weissman and Stephen Scott with Eileen Fursland
Illustrations by Fran Orford (BAAF, March 2008)
Price: £10.95 + £1.92 VAT
A unique handbook that aims to provide foster carers of the under 12s with new skills to help them improve a child’s behaviour. Includes useful tips, case examples and exercises to help improve relationships and make every day seem easier and more manageable.

Together in Time
By Ruth & Ed Royce (BAAF, March 2008)
Price: £7.95
An open and honest account of how creative therapies helped a family who adopted two boys with attachment difficulties.

Transitions and Endings
Kate Cairns (BAAF/Akamas Training 2008)
Price: £29.95
This training programme aims to help carers helps traumatised children and themselves to face change and loss in a managed and constructive way. Subjects covered include the importance of attachment and resilience, trauma and the impact of secondary traumatic stress, and promoting and managing constructive endings. Includes CD ROM with PowerPoint slide presentations and handouts.

The Family Business
By Robert Marsden (BAAF, March 2008)
Price: £7.95
Narrated by the adoptive father, this is an honest and realistic account of adopting a child with a disability and the impact of adoption on the whole family. It explores the challenges of day-to-day family life and the importance of focusing on the child’s personality rather than his disability.

The Banana Kid
Valerie Mason-John (BAAF, March 2008)
Price: £9.95
A frank and revealing memoir of a childhood and adolescence spent moving in and out of foster homes and back and forth to the Dr Barnardo’s Village in Essex. This is an important story powerfully told about growing up black, female and in care. It has much to say about the perils of childhood and how we raise children in today’s society.

Mother me
Written by Zara H Phillips (BAAF, March 2008)
Price: £8.95
A frank and honest personal memoir which explores the far-reaching impact of adoption on childhood, adolescence, relationships and self-esteem. It also provides a unique insight into pregnancy and motherhood from the perspective of an adopted woman.

Direct Work
Social Work with children and young people in care
Edited by Barry Luckock and Michelle Lefevre (BAAF 2008)
Price: £14.95
This comprehensive collection explores a variety of perspectives on direct work with children and young people in the care system. It includes contributions from a diverse range of practitioners, researchers and educators, all of which are illustrated with moving and imaginative examples.