Search the bookshop

CoramBAAF Bookshop

Displaying 1 - 10 of 23

Author / keywords / title

Product type

Topic

Sort by

Kinship assessment timescales: impact and practice considerations

2026 | Anne Horne

Many kinship assessments are completed during public law proceedings, but in some cases courts are requiring unrealistically short timescales for assessments to take place, causing negative impacts on children and families. This Practice Note sets out clear advice on the importance of 12-week timescales, to provide clarity for all those involved in or who have influence over the timetabling of kinship assessments, including judges, solicitors and barristers.

Options for kinship carers (England and Wales)

2026 | CoramBAAF

This Advice Note explores the different options available for those looking after children in a kinship care situation, including special guardianship orders, kinship foster care and adoption.

Parental consent and children/young people who are living in private fostering arrangements

2025 | Ann Horne, Augusta Itua and Clare Seth

This Practice Note explains that private fostering does not require parental consent, either written or verbal. The local authority must assess and monitor any such arrangement under the Children Act 1989 and the Children (Private Arrangements for Fostering) Regulations 2005, focusing on safeguarding and promoting the child’s welfare rather than how the arrangement came about. While parental involvement is encouraged, it is not a legal requirement.

National Minimum Standards for Fostering: Implications for kinship foster care in England

2025 | Clare Seth

This Practice Note considers the National Minimum Standards (NMS) within the context of kinship foster care and how this differs from mainstream foster care. It provides practitioners and panel members with reflections about the interpretation of NMS for kinship foster carers, alongside practice points to ensure that they are supported to meet the NMS within the caring relationship they have for a specific child/ren.

Undertaking a Kinship Care Assessment: A guide to collecting and analysing information for Form K (England)

2025 | Ann Horne and Clare Seth with Paul Adams

'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.

Protecting looked after and adopted children from sexual abuse in care: A guide for professionals

2025 | Hedy Cleaver and Wendy Rose

This companion guide draws on information in the associated Good Practice Guide, 'Child sexual abuse in foster and kinship care, special guardianship and adoption: Learning from safeguarding reviews 2007–2022'. This guide details the results of a study of safeguarding reviews involving 87 children, who were sexually abused by members of the household or family friends while living with foster or kinship carers, special guardians or adopters.

Child sexual abuse in foster and kinship care, special guardianship and adoption: Learning from safeguarding reviews 2007–2022