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We've published our Law Commission: Kinship Care consultation response
In our response we back proposals to introduce a new, bespoke Kinship Care Order alongside recommendations for support for kinship families.
Our responseNew Adoption & Fostering Journal
To mark 100 years since the Adoption Act 1926, we’ve launched a special edition of the Adoption & Fostering Journal: Reflecting on 100 years of Adoption in England and Wales: 1926–2026. You can access all the articles as part of your membership using the below link.
Access the journalSocial worker registration now open
Social Work registration window is now open. Practitioners must submit their renewal application and record two pieces of CPD, including one with peer reflection. Associate Trainer Cath Turton shares practical tips for completing yours.
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New platform to give care-experienced and adopted people better access to their records
CoramBAAF and the Archives and Records Association (ARA) are working together to make it easier for care experienced and adopted people to find and access records relating to their time in care and adoption. The new resource will provide an accessible way to find where records may be located. Find out more about the project and sign up for future updates here.
Find out moreUpcoming training, events and conferences
Private Fostering Awareness Day: Lunch and Learn
04 November 2026 | 12.30pm - 2.00pm | Online
This year’s lunchtime session for Private Fostering Awareness Day will focus on the complexities, challenges and solutions in private fostering social work practice. We will hear from local authority practitioners, the voices of private foster carers, parents and young people and consider some of the complexities that arise in private fostering arrangements. The event will also preview the results of this year’s CoramBAAF private fostering survey and the accompanying report will be published on the same day.
Fostering in Colour: Documentary Screening
03 November 2026 | 4.00pm - 6.30pm | Coram Campus
£15 plus VAT per ticket
Fostering in Colour brings together the honest, unfiltered experiences of foster carers from Black and global majority communities: what brought them to fostering, what kept them there, and what the system still gets wrong. Produced by the Black Foster Carers Alliance, the film opens up a conversation the sector has needed for a long time, about cultural matching, identity, and the children still waiting for the right home.
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with foster carers, with time for audience questions.
Planning for children
11 November 2026 | 9.45am - 4.00pm | Online
This open course will enable participants to increase their understanding of the role of permanence in children's lives. By reflecting on best practice, it will help those attending to form permanence plans that are geared to improving the outcomes for children and young people, including their emotional, cognitive and physical development.
In our bookshop
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Dennis, Harriett and Flynn live in different families
The Dennis Duckling series of picture books provides a range of opportunities to talk to looked after children about what is happening in their lives. In the first two books, Dennis and his little sister have to leave their parents and be looked after by a foster duck family. This book recaps the story, before following Dennis and his siblings as it is decided they need to live apart, in different duck families.
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Effective fostering panels
What are the roles and responsibilities of fostering panel members? What regulations and standards determine the functioning of a fostering panel? How can panels implement best practice to improve their work and make better placements? Effective fostering panels answers these and many other questions.
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Adoption starter pack
Essential reading for newly qualified social workers
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Fostering starter pack - bumper bundle
Save when you purchase five of our best selling fostering titles in our new bumper bundle pack! Essential reading for newly qualified social workers.
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