Books, booklets & multimedia

A Very Private Practice - A report into private fostering
By Terry Philpot (BAAF, 2001)
Price: £5.00
This campaigning report shows how good practice can make a difference to better protecting children in private foster care.

Child Protection – The therapeutic option
Edited by Daphne Batty and Deborah Cullen (BAAF 1996)
Price: £5.00 (previously £10.95)
How can we achieve the much need shift from a forensic resolution of the problem to a real commitment to the welfare of children? This stimulating collection presents a significant debate in which contributors demand an overhaul of the system.

Children and Families in the Voluntary Sector – An overview of child placement and adoption work by voluntary adoption agencies in England 1994-1998
By Gilles Ivaldi (BAAF 2000)
Price: £5.00
This research report scrutinises some crucial areas of child placement and adoption work by voluntary adoption agencies, and their specific contribution.

Contact – Managing visits to children looked after away from home (BAAF 1999)
By Peg McCartt Hess and Kathleen Ohman Proch (BAAF 1993)
Price: £3.00
Handbook containing valuable guidance on good practice.

Contact in permanent placement – Guidance for local authorities in England and Wales and Scotland (BAAF 1999)
Price: £4.50
Highlights factors to be taken into account in exploring whether a child’s welfare would be promoted by planning some form of contact within the permanent placement, and the implications for agency policy and practice.

Joining Together, Jo's Story
by Sheila Byrne and Leigh Chambers , illustrated by Sarah Rawlings (BAAF, 1999)
Price: £4.00
Part of the "My Story" series of books. This title is about a step parent adoption.

Feeling Safe - Tina's story
by Sheila Byrne and Leigh Chambers , illustrated by Sarah Rawlings (BAAF, 1998)
Price: £4.00
Part of the "My Story" series of books. This title tells a story about a girl who is sexually abused at home and has to go into foster care.

Living with a New Family
by Sheila Byrne and Leigh Chambers , illustrated by Sarah Rawlings (BAAF, 1997)
Price: £4.00
Part of the "My Story" series of books. This title is about a brother and sister being adopted.

Hoping for the Best - Jack's story
by Sheila Byrne and Leigh Chambers , illustrated by Sarah Rawlings (BAAF, 1997)
Price: £4.00
Part of the "My Story" series of books. This title is about an adoption that did not work out.

Novices, Old Hands, and Professionals: Adoption by single people

by Morag Owen (BAAF, 1999)
Price: £5.95
The first major study of single-person adoption, both descriptive and analytical.

Shaping Childcare Practice in Scotland: Key papers on adoption and fostering
By Professor Malcolm Hill (BAAF, September 2002)
Price: £5.00
In this guide, the authors examine how adoption practice has evolved and chart the changes.

Siblings in Late Permanent Placements
by Alan Rushton, Cherilyn Dance, David Quinton and Deborah Mayes (BAAF, January 2001)
Price: £5.00
The first major interview-based study of sibling relationships in permanent placement follows a sample of 133 children in middle childhood placed with 72 new families.

Signposts in Adoption:
Policy, practice and research issues
Edited by Malcolm Hill and Martin Shaw (BAAF, 1998)
Price: £5.00
This unique anthology brings together seminal papers published in BAAF's quarterly journal, Adoption & Fostering.

Signposts in Fostering – Policy, practice and research issues
Edited by Malcolm Hill (BAAF 1999)
Price: £5.00
Brings together seminal papers that have contributed to shaping fostering practice. They cover the organisation of services, recruitment, assessment and training, short-term placements, meeting the needs of siblings, the importance of external relationships, and placement endings.

Surveying Adoption
A comprehensive analysis of local authority adoptions 1998-1999 (England)
by Gilles Ivaldi (BAAF, October 2000)
Price: £5.00
The most comprehensive picture of the numbers, characteristics and histories of looked after children who were adopted in England during 1998/99.

Taking Extra Care - Respite, shared and permanent care for children with disabilities
by Hedi Argent and Alile Kerrane (BAAF, 1997)
Price: £5.00
This is a practice guide about assessing the needs of children with disabilities.

We Are Family - Sibling Relationships In Placement and Beyond
Edited by Audrey Mullender (BAAF, October 1999)
Price: £5.00
This anthology brings together findings from a range of recent and ongoing research studies into sibling placement.

Whatever Happened to Adam
by Hedi Argent (BAAF, 1998)
Price: £4.95
This remarkable book tells the stories of 20 young people with disabilities and the families who chose to care for them.

After Adoption – Working with adoptive families
Edited by Rena Phillips and Emma McWilliam (BAAF 1996)
Price: £9.95 (previously £14.95)
Anthology focusing on post-adoption support for adoptive families illustrated with case studies.

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.

Delivering Foster Care
by John Triseliotis, Moira Borland and Malcolm Hill (BAAF, December 1999)
Price: £12.95
This book discusses comprehensively the changing nature of fostering from the perspective of recruitment and retention.

Doctors For Children In Public Care - A resource guide advocating, protecting and promoting health
by Mary Mather, Daphne Batty and Heather Payne (BAAF, 2000)
Price: £10.00
This resource guide for doctors looking after children in public care focuses on, and tackles a range of issues they need to be aware of.

Fostering Unaccompanied Asylum-seeking and Refugee Children:
A training course for foster carers
By Selam Kidane and Penny Amerena (BAAF, May 2004)
Price: £10.00
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the issues surrounding foster care of unaccompanied asylum-seeking and refugee children.

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.

Linking and Introductions: Helping Children Join Adoptive Families
by Sheila Byrne (BAAF, December 2000)
Price: £6.50
This guide addresses the vital phase of linking children with new families prior to placement, and provides a child-centred framework for thinking through the major stages of linking and introducing children to potential families.

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.

The Plan for the Child – Adoption or long-term fostering
By Nigel Lowe and Mervyn Murch, Kay Bader, Margaret Borkowski, Rosalie Copner, Cathy Lisles and Jenny Shearman (BAAF 2002)
Price: £9.95
Examines the process which determines whether a looked after child is fostered or adopted and why “delay” occurs in implementing the plan. Looks at what measures local authorities have introduced to identify and combat delay, and examines possible reasons for the wide variation in their use of adoption.

See You Soon – Contact with children looked after by local authorities
Edited by Hedi Argent (BAAF 1995)
Price: £9.95
Explores planning and managing appropriate contact from a variety of viewpoints including: the legal framework; contact in the local authority setting; contact with children who have been abused; and planning for permanence with contact.

Supporting Adoption - Reframing The Approach
Directed by Professors Nigel Lowe and Mervyn Murch (BAAF, 1999)
Price: £10.95
Supporting Adoption offers the most comprehensive review of adoption services in England and Wales in the 1990s.

Testing the Limits of Foster Care: Fostering as an alternative to secure accommodation
by Moira Walker , Malcolm Hill and John Triseliotis (BAAF, October 2002)
Price: £10.00
This study looks at a pioneering scheme that offers fostering placements for young people whose behaviour would place them beyond the limits of ‘normal’ foster care.