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Adoption & Fostering journal #22 | The Reflective Fostering Programme – A group intervention for foster carers
In this episode, we chat to Professor Nick Midgley (University College London) and Expert by Experience, Jackie Tripp, a kinship carer about the Reflective Fostering Programme, an intervention designed to help carers support the children in their care. The Programme was evaluated as part of a large-scale randomised controlled trial, which showed that it was not only beneficial for carers, reducing stress and burnout and improving the carer–child relationship, but also cost-effective. While Nick outlines the study and its findings, Jackie describes its life-changing impact on her as a participant in the Programme.
Find out moreFostering reforms, England 2026 - what your service needs to know
We have published a Practice Briefing for members that sets out everything that services need to know about what is changing, the implications of these changes, the key areas being consulted on, the government’s call for evidence and how to get involved.
Read the briefingCoramBAAF welcomes the launch today of the long awaited kinship allowance pilot in seven local authorities
CoramBAAF welcomes the launch of the long awaited kinship allowance pilot in seven local authorities. Backed by £126 million, the kinship allowance will reach around 5,000 children, and we therefore welcome this investment in kinship families knowing the financial challenges many face.
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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 today, Monday 9 March, announcing a partnership to make it easier for adopted and care-experienced people to find and access records relating to their adoption and time in care.
Find out moreUpcoming training, events and conferences
Adoption Conference 2026
11 May 2026 | 9.30am - 4pm | London
Book your place at our Adoption Conference. Our theme for this year focuses on how modern adoption can meet the needs of today’s children and today’s families. Within this topic, we will be exploring staying in touch, education, recruitment and identity as well as looking at where adoption needs to modernise to meet support needs across policy and practice.
Effective panels: an introduction to the functions and operations of fostering and adoption panels (England)
7 May 2026 | 9.45am - 4pm | Online
This open course aims to give new and recently appointed fostering and adoption panel members an opportunity to develop their role as effective panel members and to consider the tasks and responsibilities involved. This will be within the context of the current legislative framework and emerging messages from research. Fostering and adoption/permanency panel work is challenging to all concerned in the process. This course is intended to share issues, dilemmas and best practice.
SAVE THE DATE: CoramBAAF Annual Health Conference 2026
22 June 2026 | 9.30am - 4pm | Birmingham
The annual health conference is a key event in the calendar of medical advisers, doctors and nurses working with care experienced and adopted children. It is a conference that brings together practice and ideas that are current, relevant to you, and which matter. The theme of this years' conference is mental health, and the ways in which mental health conditions and provisions can impact upon care experienced and adopted children.
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Recruiting and retaining foster carers
Foster carer recruitment and retention are huge challenges that have attracted much research and reporting, without leading to widespread positive change. But some key best practice has been learned. What forms of recruitment have proved most useful, and what advertising encourages applications? How have some agencies successfully reached a range of diverse applicants? What do carers value most in a fostering service, making them more likely to stay – and what factors may push them to leave?
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Undertaking a Kinship Care Assessment: A guide to collecting and analysing information for Form K (England)
'Undertaking a kinship assessment' is designed to help social workers to manage and complete a comprehensive and evidence-based assessment of kinship carers/connected people/family and friends who wish to foster or be special guardians to a known child or children.
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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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