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Supporting Children’s Learning
A training programme for foster carers
By Clare Pallett, John Simmonds and Andrea Warman (BAAF 2010)
Prices: £69.95 + VAT non-members price
£49.95 + VAT members price.
This training programme has been designed to help carers support the education of children in their care and enable them to become more confident and effective learners.
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Undertaking an Adoption Assessment
A guide to collecting and analysing information for Form PAR in Englands
By Elaine Dibben (BAAF 2010)
Price: £10.95
This guide will help assessing social workers in England to plan, conduct and complete a comprehensive and evidence-based assessment of prospective adopters.
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Adopting a Brother or Sister
By Hedi Argent (BAAF 2010)
Price: £3.95
A guide for children and young people, written for the birth children of prospective adopters to explain why their parents might be considering adoption as a way to build their family.
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Stepfamily Adoption: What it is and what it means
By Jo Francis (BAAF 2010)
Price: £3.95
A guide for children and young people which explains Stepfamily adoption processes and procedures.
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Special Guardianship in Practice
Jim Wade, Jo Dixon and Andrew Richards
BAAF (2010)
Price: £14.95
This pioneering study examines how eight local authorities have responded to the introduction of special guardianship and considers the policy and practice implications that have arisen in the first few years of implementation.
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Helping birth families – Services, costs and outcomes
Elsbeth Neil, Jeanette Cossar, Paula Lorgelly and Julie Young
BAAF (2010)
Price: £14.95
This innovative study systematically explores the independent support offered to the birth parents of children adopted through the care system.
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Frozen
By Mike Butcher (BAAF 2010)
Price: £7.95
This candid and witty memoir follows one couple on their journey to create a family, revealing how IVF treatment can, and does, go horribly wrong and how a leaflet from a local adoption agency changes their lives forever.
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Facing up to Facebook: A survival guide for adoptive families
By Eileen Fursland (BAAF, 2010)
Price: £14.95
The first UK guide, for adoptive families, to explore the impact of the internet, social networking and other technologies on adoption contact, search and reunion.
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Social networking and contact: How social workers can help adoptive families
By Eileen Fursland (BAAF, 2010)
Price: £14.95
The first UK guide, for social workers, to explore the impact of the internet, social networking and other technologies on adoption contact, search and reunion.
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More adoption conversations
By Renée Wolfs (BAAF, 2010)
Price: £12.95
This in-depth practical guide will help parents discuss the known – or unknown – aspects of their adopted teenager’s history and be well-equipped to communicate difficult issues.
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Coming Home to Self
Nancy Newton Verrier (BAAF, 2010)
Price: £15.95
This book looks at ways of healing the primal wound that results when a child is separated from his or her mother. It examines the effects of separation trauma on brain development, offers an insight into the barriers that prevent many adopted people from achieving an authentic, mature and satisfying adulthood, and suggests a strategy for change.
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Dale's Tale
By Helen Jayne (BAAF, March 2010)
Price: £7.95
The true story of how a family fought to adopt the little boy they had fostered. |
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Pathways to permanence for black, Asian and mixed ethnicity children
By Julie Selwyn, David Quinton, Perlita Harris, Dinithi Wijedasa, Shameem Nawaz and Marsha Wood (BAAF, March 2010)
Price: £14.95
A pioneering study exploring the care pathways of minority ethnic children in three authorities in England. It considers possible differences in decision making and outcomes for them, in comparison with white children, especially in relation to permanence. |
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Ten Top Tips for Supporting Adopters
By Jeanne Kaniuk with Eileen Fursland (BAAF, March 2010)
Price: £7.95
This practical guide for social workers explores the support of adoptive placements. It includes information on the underlying principles of successful support, the legal framework, contact, managing children’s difficult behaviour, financial help and identifying resources. |
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Thinking of joining a fostering panel?
By Pat Beesley (BAAF, January 2010)
Price: £2.50
This pamphlet provides advice and information for anyone who may be thinking about joining, or going to join, a fostering panel in England. |
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A guide to writing panel minutes
By John Pratt (BAAF, January 2010)
Price: £2.50
This pamphlet will help panel minute takers to meet statutory requirements and produce accurate and high quality minutes. |
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Dad David, Baba Chris and ME
Written by Ed Merchant (BAAF, January 2010)
Illustrated by Rachel Fuller
Price: £8.95
A brightly illustrated book for children aged 5-10 years old which tells Ben’s story of his ordinary life with his adoptive gay parents, Dad David and Baba Chris. |
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Pushing the Boundaries of Assessment
By Jennifer Cousins (BAAF 2010)
Price: £11.95
A practical workbook and training DVD which present a creative and imaginative range of assessment and preparation techniques for social workers to use with prospective adopters.
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Linking and Matching – A survey of adoption agency practice in England and Wales
By Cherilyn Dance, Danielle Ouwejan, Jennifer Beecham and Elaine Farmer (BAAF, 2010)
Price: £12.95
Captures a snapshot of current linking and matching practice, revealing varying costs and outcomes for children, innovative practice and diametrically opposed views about this subject amongst practitioners.
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Holding on and Hanging in
By Lorna Miles (BAAF, January 2010)
Price: £7.95
An honest and heartfelt account which tracks the journey of a young boy called Wayne from first being fostered by Lorna at the age of seven, in a therapeutic fostering placement, through nearly five years of family life.
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The Most Precious Present in the World
Written by Becky Edwards, illustrated by Louise Comfort (BAAF January 2010)
Price: £8.95
A colourful picture book to introduce young children to the concept of adoption.
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