Promoting private fostering

• Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Foster Care | Legal

Clare Seth, CoramBAAF kinship care consultant, on how to...

Therapeutic Care Special Report

• Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Health | Mental health | Fostering and adoption

With a post-pandemic surge in demand for mental health and...

Legal Update: Coram Adoption marks 50th year

• Fostering and adoption | Social Care | Legal

Coram chief executive Carol Homden reflects on the...

Interview: Emily Frith, Adoption UK chief executive

• Fostering and adoption | Interview

Fiona Simpson speaks to the newly appointed chief executive...

Commissioning Care: Special Report

• Management | Commissioning | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Residential and specialist care | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care

Recommendations in the Care Review aim to improve...

Foster Care: Special Report

• Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Foster Care

While the number of fostering households has gone up, the...

Legal Update: Preparing for the adoption assessment process

• Legal | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Families/Parenting | Children's rights

How prospective adopters are prepared for assessment can...

Legal Update: Post-commencement adoptions

• Children's rights | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Adoption

Alexandra Conroy Harris, legal consultant at CoramBAAF, sets...

Legal Update: Social media and adoption

• Children's rights | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Legal | Adoption | Foster Care

Alexandra Conroy Harris, legal consultant at CoramBAAF, on...

Improving foster carer recruitment

• Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Foster Care

A nationwide shortage of foster carers was exacerbated by...

How I Got Here: Louise Day

• Fostering and adoption | Foster Care

Foster carer and Oxfordshire County Council fostering...

South East pilot gives care providers equal stake in developing placement contracts

• Social Care | Management | Commissioning | Fostering and adoption | Residential and specialist care | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care

Pilot project attempts to give care providers an equal say...

Four decades of adoption & fostering

• Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Foster Care | Adoption

Adoption and fostering charity CoramBAAF celebrated its 40th...

Legal Update - Coronavirus amendment regulations

• Social Care | Fostering and adoption

Alexandra Conroy Harris, legal consultant at CoramBAAF,...

Sibling relationships in the care system

• Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Residential and specialist care | Children's Services | Children's rights | Families/Parenting | Legal | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care | Adoption

Children’s services and courts face serious challenges when...

Therapeutic Care: Special Report

• Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Fostering and adoption | Mental Health | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care | Adoption

With rises in children coming into care and reporting mental...

Why we changed careers to work with children

• Careers | Early Years | Children's Services | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Health | Health visiting | Management | Leadership

Many children’s and youth services are experiencing staffing...

Commissioning: Foster care relative costs

• Fostering and adoption | Commissioning | Service configuration | Foster Care

Children’s services commissioners need to take into account...

Shared Services: Special Report

• Children's Services | Early help | Information sharing | Management | Commissioning | Leadership | Service configuration | Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Fostering and adoption | Safeguarding and child protection

Fresh evidence suggests collaboration is helping local...

Fostering - Children's Workforce Qualifications and Training Guide

• Courses and training | Fostering and adoption

In the UK in 2018, 67,426 children were living with around...

Adoption register suspension - will it make matching harder?

• Fostering and adoption | Adoption

A system for matching hard-to-place children with adopters...

Legal Update: Case highlights foreign adoption complexities

• Children's rights | Fostering and adoption | Legal | Adoption

A Supreme Court judgment has highlighted the complexities of...

Review triggers debate over the role of contact in adoption cases

• Fostering and adoption | Adoption

Review finds poor contact with birth families can cause...

Fostering stocktake: six major recommendations for change

• Fostering and adoption | Foster Care

The review of foster care by Sir Martin Narey and Mark Owers...

Post-adoption support boost

• Fostering and adoption | Adoption

Freedom of Information data reveals extent of council "match...

Investigation reveals increase in adoption placement breakdowns

• Fostering and adoption | Adoption

FoI data shows a rise in adoptions breaking down over the...

Inspections: Local authority foster care

• Ofsted | Fostering and adoption | Inspections | Foster Care

The number of local authority foster placements rose last...

Legal Update: Financial support for foster carers

• Fostering and adoption | Legal | Foster Care

A recent finding of the Local Government and Social Care...

The care remainers

• Fostering and adoption | Residential and specialist care

All four nations of the UK have some form of provision for...

Care and capability

• Education | Management | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Residential and specialist care

Looked-after young people are some of the most vulnerable in...

Legal Update: Cultural matching in foster care

• Children's rights | Family courts and Cafcass | Fostering and adoption | Legal | Foster Care

Reports of a child being placed with "inappropriate" foster...

Absolute adopter

• Fostering and adoption | Adoption

Neil Puffett talks to Sue Armstrong-Brown, chief executive...

Adoption agencies go regional

• Fostering and adoption | Adoption

The first regional adoption agencies are set to launch, but...

Your guide to the Children and Social Work Act

• Education | Sexual health | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Leaving care | Safeguarding and child protection | PSHE Education | Foster Care | Leaving Care | Adoption | Preventing Care Proceedings | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation

What the act means for everyday practice across the...

Local Spotlight: Birmingham City Council

• Management | Service configuration | Fostering and adoption | Foster Care

How England's largest authority is using online and...

Legal Update: Fall in adoption placement orders

• Fostering and adoption | Legal | Adoption

A decline in the number of adoption placement orders has...

Understanding impact of abuse and reviewing care placement options

• Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Safeguarding and child protection | Foster Care | Residential Children's Care | Adoption | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation

Review assesses the evidence on the impact of abuse on...

Legal Update: Special guardianship orders

• Children's rights | Families/Parenting | Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass | Fostering and adoption | Safeguarding and child protection | Legal | Adoption

Serious case review highlights need for rigorous assessments...

Special Report: Foster care

• Fostering and adoption

The government has pledged to undertake a national...

Foster care: Policy context

• Fostering and adoption | Foster Care

In July 2016, the government announced it was to embark on a...

Social Workers on the witness stand

• Families/Parenting | Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass | Fostering and adoption | Safeguarding and child protection

Giving evidence in court can be a daunting experience for...

The Social Care Academy

• Courses and training | Children's Services | Social Care | Fostering and adoption

Vacancy rates and staff turnover have plummeted in Essex...

Attachment training for teachers

• Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Attachment & Neglect

Adoption UK is leading a campaign to boost schools'...

Ripe for reform

• Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Residential and specialist care | Foster Care

With government pledging to undertake a 'national stocktake'...

Behind the Inspection Ratings: Independent fostering agencies

• Ofsted | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Foster Care

Local authorities are increasing their use of independent...

The policy context on Attachment and Neglect

• Early Years | Health | Mental health | Young parents | Children's Services | Early help | Families/Parenting | Information sharing | Management | Leadership | Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass | Fostering and adoption | Safeguarding and child protection | Attachment & Neglect

In recent years there has been a growing recognition of the...

The Mulberry Bush School: Specialist support for successful foster and adoptive placements

• Fostering and adoption | Residential and specialist care

Meet the matchmaker: a day with adoption social worker Hannah Barrs

• Children's Services | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Adoption

Finding the right match for children who need a new...

Adoption matchmaker: Andy Leary-May, Link Maker Systems chief executive

• Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Interview | Adoption

Derren Hayes meets Andy Leary-May, co-founder and chief...

Prioritising permanence: Kevin Williams, chief executive, The Fostering Network

• Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Interview

Derren Hayes meets Kevin Williams, chief executive of The...

How artists help children to explore their life stories

• Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Foster Care

Creative Life Story Work sees care-experienced children work...

How I Got Here: Geraldine Roseberry, foster carer

• Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Foster Care

Geraldine Roseberry reflects on 25 years as a foster carer.

Trauma-informed commissioning delivers savings

• Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Fostering and adoption | Management | Commissioning | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care

Struggling council transforms how it commissions placements...

Step-down service improves placement stability

• Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Fostering and adoption | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care | Management | Commissioning

In-depth assessments identify ways to support young people...

Suffolk's therapeutic fostering team builds relationships

• Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Foster Care

Specialist team at East Anglian council works with foster...

West Midlands councils’ films change script on fostering

• Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Foster Care

A regional initiative that aims to boost foster carer...

Mockingbird grows as foster carers value ‘extended family’ support network

• Foster Care | Social Care | Fostering and adoption

A pioneering programme that nurtures relationships between...

Liverpool on journey to sustainable children’s home sector

• Residential Children's Care | Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Fostering and adoption

Liverpool, like many areas, has seen rising demand for, and...

Foster care for adolescents with complex needs in Sweden

• Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Foster Care

Laurelle Brown visited Sweden in 2018 to assess how child...

Prospective adopters use technology to see the reality of childhood trauma

• Fostering and adoption | Children's Services | Safeguarding and child protection | Foster Care | Attachment & Neglect | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation

Virtual reality technology used to improve understanding of...

Agency helps children develop more secure attachments

• Health | Mental health | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Mental Health | Adoption

“Outstanding”-rated adoption agency Family Futures provides...

Ask the Experts: Worries about new employer

• Nurseries | Management | Fostering and adoption | Safeguarding and child protection

Our expert panel offers advice on sharing expertise, an...

Positive support for adopters

• Fostering and adoption | Adoption

Project helps adoptive parents and children form loving,...

No Wrong Door

• Fostering and adoption | Residential and specialist care | Residential Children's Care

North Yorkshire Council creates children's home "hubs",...

Head, Heart, Hands - Aberlour Fostering

• Fostering and adoption | Foster Care

Head, Heart, Hands was a UK-wide, three-year programme that...

Keep Fostering - National Implementation Service

• Fostering and adoption | Foster Care

Keep is a training programme that has been delivered to more...

Match Foster Care

• Fostering and adoption | Foster Care

Aims to improve fostered children's placement stability and...

Mockingbird Family Model

• Fostering and adoption | Foster Care

Involves a "hub home carer" offering peer support, respite...

Behind the Inspection Ratings: Adoption

• Ofsted | Fostering and adoption | Inspections | Adoption

As the number of children being placed for adoption...

Behind the Inspection Ratings: Adoption services

• Ofsted | Fostering and adoption | Adoption

The standard of adoption services across local authorities...

Parents on the Ball

• Young parents | Children's Services | Early help | Families/Parenting | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Attachment & Neglect

Programme revolving around local football clubs to boost...

AdCAMHS, East Sussex

• Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Attachment & Neglect

Therapeutic programme that supports adopted children and...

New Orleans Intervention Model

• Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Attachment & Neglect

Programme that emphasises young children's secure attachment...

Guide helps foster better awareness of pet benefits

• Health | Fostering and adoption | Safeguarding and child protection | Foster Care

Following uncertainty by children's services into whether...

Behind the Inspection Rating: Putting faith in attention to detail

• Ofsted | Fostering and adoption

Foster Care Link, London and Manchester - independent...

Skills for the Job: Support children post-adoption

• Careers | Children's rights | Families/Parenting | Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass | Fostering and adoption

Ensuring the needs of adopted children and young people are...

Good Idea: Yoga teaches foster carers to manage emotionseffectively

• Public Health | Families/Parenting | Fostering and adoption | Careers Guidance

Provider: Liz Lark

How councils unite to sign up adoptive parents

• Children's Services | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Adoption

Four local authorities in the North West pool their...

How group work boosts skills of foster carers

• Social Care | Fostering and adoption

Foster carers are trained in how to look after vulnerable...

How concurrent planning is helping to speed up the adoption process in London

• Fostering and adoption

Coram operates the only specialist centre for concurrent...

Good Practice: How Harrow's partnership with Coram is boosting its adoption success rate

• Social Care | Fostering and adoption

Harrow Council's Adoption Service now has a 100 per cent...

Good Practice: How museums in Norfolk are reaching out to looked-after children

• Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Kinship care | Residential and specialist care

A museum programme is helping vulnerable young people gain...

Commissioning Care – Research evidence: Sufficiency report

• Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care | Fostering and adoption

This report provides analysis of all up-to-date local...

The right decisions for children in long-term foster care

• Social Care | Fostering and adoption

Study looked at the implementation of the first regulations...

Matching in foster care and how we can improve it

• Social Care | Fostering and adoption

The process of “matching” children and young people in care...

Preliminary Evaluation of the Virtual Reality Pilot Programme: The Cornerstone Partnership

• Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Fostering and adoption | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation | Foster Care | Adoption

This study provides summary findings from a preliminary...

Evaluation of the University of Kent’s Consortium Project to Explore How Technology Can Support Young People in Care

• Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Kinship care | Leaving care | Residential and specialist care | Adoption | Foster Care

This project, led by the University of Kent, brought...

Evaluation of Regional Adoption Agencies 2018-19

• Service configuration | Commissioning | Social Care | Fostering and adoption

This report presents findings from the first stage of the...

The Educational Aspirations and Psychological Wellbeing of Adopted Young People

• Education | Fostering and adoption | Adoption

Local authorities in England and Wales have a legal duty to...

The Support Needs and Experiences of Newly Formed Adoptive Families: Findings From the Wales Adoption Study

• Fostering and adoption | Adoption

This research paper focuses on the support needs of newly...

The Influence of Adoption on Sibling Relationships

• Fostering and adoption | Adoption

Researchers from Cardiff University wanted to explore how...

Comparing the Locus of Control of Young People in Foster Care

• Fostering and adoption | Mental Health | Foster Care

Research into whether the locus of control of children in...

Identifying Inequalities in Child Welfare Intervention Rates

• Fostering and adoption | Safeguarding and child protection | Foster Care | Adoption

Academics from the universities of Coventry, Sheffield,...

A critical review of qualitative research into the experiences of young adults leaving foster care services

• Fostering and adoption | Foster Care | Leaving Care

This paper qualitatively analyses children and young...

(In)Sufficient?: ethnicity and foster care in English local authorities

• Fostering and adoption | Foster Care

This paper examines the issue of ethnicity in the context of...

Reviewing the literature on the breakdown of foster care placements for young people: complexity and the social work task

• Fostering and adoption | Foster Care

Factors associated with the breakdown of long-term foster...

Reunifying abused or neglected children: Decision-making and outcomes

• Fostering and adoption | Foster Care | Residential Children's Care

This longitudinal study examines one of the most critical...

Permanence for disabled children and young people through foster care and adoption: A selective review of international literature

• Special Educational Needs | Disabled children and young people | Families/Parenting | Family courts and Cafcass | Fostering and adoption | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities | Adoption

Review discusses concerns and policy directions regarding...

Supporting Long-term Foster Care Placements in the Independent Sector

• Service configuration | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Foster Care

The impact of Match Foster Care's pilot project to improve...

Special Report: Attachment and Neglect - Research Evidence

• Early Years | Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Information sharing | Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass | Fostering and adoption | Safeguarding and child protection | Attachment & Neglect

Beyond the Adoption Order: Challenges, Interventions and Adoption Disruption

• Ofsted | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Adoption

Researchers examine the rate of adoption disruption and the ...