Books, booklets & multimedia
BAAF sells a wide range of books for professsionals, adoptive parents and foster carers and children.
Don't miss our most recent releases:
|
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
|
|
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.
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Books, booklets & multimedia:
|
|
Call for submissions
Do you know someone aged between 5-20 who has been been adopted by a family in England, Ireland, Scotland or Wales?
If you do, then we would like to hear from them to contribute to the first UK anthology of writing and poetry by and for adopted children is to be published in 2008.
For more information download the pdf.
|
|
