Books, booklets & multimedia

Care Stories
A training film and book for those working with looked after children and young people
Edited by Julie Granville and Beth Miller (Tavistock Training, 2006)
Price: £85
Care Stories features seven young people who describe their experiences in care in their own words, covering significant issues including loss, trust, relationships, identity, race and culture, quality of care, preparation for leaving care and moving to independence. These themes are explored and contextualised by an accompanying DVD and training guide. Designed as a flexible teaching tool for group training and individual learning, Care Stories is suitable for use by a wide range of professionals and students.

Fostering Changes: How to improve relationships and manage difficult behaviour
by Clare Pallett, Kathy Blackeby, William Yule, Roger Weissman and Stephen Scott (BAAF, 2005)
Price: £100 (discount for two or more copies)
A unique training course to help foster carers of children under 12 manage behavioural difficulties and form positive relationships.

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.

Safer Caring
A training programme
Kate Cairns and Eileen Fursland (BAAF, 2007)
Price: £39.95
Foster carers who take on the risk of caring for troubled children need and deserve the best help available. And agencies owe it to them to prepare them as well as possible. This training course aims to give foster carers the knowledge they need to prevent, recognise and get the right treatment for secondary traumatic stress disorders and to assess and manage risk and work as part of a team to provide safer caring.

Looking after Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking and Refugee Children
by Selam Kidane and Penny Amerena (BAAF, 2005)
Price: £10.00
A training course for social care professionals.

Parenting a child who has been sexually abused
Jayne Hellett and John Simmonds (BAAF , April 2003)
Prices:
Training Programme: £14.95 plus (+ £2.61 VAT)
DVD - 90 minutes: £50.00 (+ £8.75 VAT)
This skills development training programme has been developed for caregivers who have children in placement who have been sexually abused.

Preparing to Adopt - Training pack
Devised by Pat Beesley, Barbara Hutchinson, Ian Millar and Sushila de Sousa
Written by Eileen Fursland (BAAF, September 2006)
This new edition of BAAF’s established and highly respected training programme sets out a comprehensive approach to preparing adopters. It has been thoroughly revised and updated to meet the legislative requirements for both procedure and practice in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and reflect the Adoption and Children Act 2002. The Trainer’s Guide includes imaginative exercises and reference to further reading as well as a CD-ROM containing presentations and handouts.
Trainer’s Guide: £35.00
Applicant’s Workbook: £23.00 (£20.00 + £3.50 VAT)
DVD/Video: £47.00 (£40.00 + £7.00 VAT)

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.