Books, booklets & multimedia

Children Exposed to Parental Substance Misuse: Implications for family placement
Edited by Rena Phillips (BAAF 2004)
Price: £14.95

At a time of rising concern about parental substance misuse, this book tackles practice, policy and research issues.

Every child is special - Placing disabled children for permanence
by Jennifer Cousins (BAAF, March 2006)
Price: £9.95
This Good Practice Guide tracks the converging processes of planning for a permanent home for disabled children, and recruiting suitable families. It examines some of the organisational structures that form the context of this work and highlights the changes that are necessary if more disabled children are to have the security of a permanent family. No one who works with children should think that disability is someone else's issue. This guide is for all childcare workers, children's disability teams, adoption and fostering teams and adoption support agencies.

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.

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 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.