Books, booklets & multimedia

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.

Talking about Adoption to your Adopted Child: A guide for adoptive parents (4th edition)
by Marjorie Morrison (BAAF 2007)
Price: £8.50
A popular and comprehensive guide outlining the whys, whens and hows of telling the truth about an adopted child’s origins. It is the only publication of its kind in the UK.

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.

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 Placing Children in Permanent Families
Written Hedi Argent (BAAF November 2006)
Price: £7.95
This quick reference guide explores the issue of child placements, with an emphasis on evidence from practice and experience. It provides clear and concise accounts of what works and what does not, and includes the views of children and families. Each of the ten chapters explores a key theme – such as finding a family and agreeing a support plan - in an accessible, straightforward and highly readable style.

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.

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.

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.

Tia’s Wishes
Words by Helen Kahn , illustrations by Sarah Rawlings (BAAF , December 2002)
Price: £10.95 (+£1.92 VAT)
Tia’s Wishes is intended to help girls aged 4 to 10 who are waiting to be placed for adoption to understand and cope with their feelings.

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.

Together or Apart?
Assessing Brothers and Sisters for Permanent Placement
by Jenifer Lord and Sarah Borthwick (BAAF, March 2008)
Price: £7.95
Fully revised and updated, this new edition of BAAF’s popular Good Practice Guide highlights the factors which affect decisions on whether siblings are placed together or separately.

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.

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.

Trauma, attachment and family permanence: Fear can stop you loving
By Caroline Archer and Alan Burnell (Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2003)
Price: £16.95
Fostered and adopted children can present major challenges resulting from unresolved attachment issues and early traumatic experiences. This book provides a variety of complementary perspectives on the needs of these children and their families, focusing on ways of integrating attachment theory and developmental psychology into effective practice.

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.

Tyler's Wishes
Words by Helen Kahn, Illustrations by Sarah Rawlings (BAAF, November 2003)
Price: £10.95 (+ £1.92 VAT)
Tyler’s Wishes is intended to help boys aged 4 to 10 who are waiting to be placed for adoption to understand and cope with their feelings.

Unaccompanied asylum seeking children - The response of social work services
By Jim Wade, Fiona Mitchell and Graeme Baylis (BAAF, November 2005)
Price: £12.95
The displacement of unaccompanied young people to countries far from home happens for many reasons, but what unites them all is the experience of being separated from their families and divided from their homes, culture and all that is familiar. How do social services in the UK respond to these young asylum seekers? This groundbreaking study examines many important questions for the first time including: are young asylum seekers entitled to the same service as looked after children and, if so, do they receive it?; how are their needs defined and assessed?; and how do the services provided affect their progress and welfare?

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.

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.

We Are Fostering
by Jean Camis (BAAF, November 2003)
Price: £12.77 (+£2.23 VAT)

A workbook to help birth children to know themselves and their role in a fostering family.

Welcoming Children into your Neighbourhood
by Jane Espley (BAAF, December 2004)
Price: £3.50
This colourful, short booklet explains to neighbours and other members of the community what might be going on when some unruly, noisy children move into the neighbourhood...

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.

What happens in court? - A guide for children
by Hedi Argent and Mary Lane (BAAF 2003)
Price: £3.50
A user-friendly guide to help children understand the role that a court might play in their lives.

What is contact? A guide for children
By Hedi Argent (BAAF, September 2004)
Price: £3.95
This colourful and easy to understand booklet explains how contact can be made and how a child might like to maintain contact with their birth family.

What is a disability? A guide for children
By Hedi Argent (BAAF, September 2004)
Price: £3.50
This guide for children explains what disabilities are, and what it can mean for children who might have them.

What works in adoption and foster care?
By Clive Sellick, June Thoburn and Terry Philpot (Barnardo’s/BAAF 2004)
Price: £12.95
Looks at the factors likely to be associated with positive outcomes. Will assist managers and practitioners in family and childcare social work to make practical decisions about where to place children and what sort of practice is most likely to bring about the desired outcomes for children, birth relatives, foster carers and the adoptive family.

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.

Working with adolescents: Supporting families, preventing breakdown
by Nina Biehal (BAAF, 2005)
Price: £12.95
This book reports the findings of a study, commissioned by the Department of Health, into the effectiveness of these specialist support teams.

Working with black children and adolescents in need
Edited by Ravinder Barn (BAAF, 1999)
Price: £12.95
An invaluable collection of practice-based suggestions for improving strategies and techniques of working with black children and adolescents in need.