'Adoption & Fostering' journal

Adoption & Fostering is the only quarterly peer-reviewed journal dedicated to adoption, fostering and kinship issues. Over the years, it has gained an international reputation as one of the world’s leading sources of knowledge for academics, practitioners and all those concerned with childcare practice and research.

Edited by Dr Dennis Golm, Adoption & Fostering is published by SAGE on behalf of CoramBAAF.

CoramBAAF Conversations

Welcome to the latest episode of the Adoption and Fostering journal podcast. In this episode, Adoption & Fostering Production Editor, Vicky Walker, and Editor-in-Chief, Dr Dennis Golm, are joined by Professor Nick Midgley (University College London) and Expert by Experience, Jackie Tripp, a kinship carer. Nick and Jackie talk 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. 

Read more about the study in The Reflective Fostering Programme – Improving the wellbeing of children in care through a group intervention for foster carers: A randomised controlled trial Volume 50, Issue 2 (April 2026) of Adoption & Fostering.

Watch the conversation

Volume 50 (Issue 1, January 2026)

Editorial

‘Adopting a Black child as white adopters does not make you anti-racist!’ – How can we better support the identity development of transracial adoptees?
Dennis Golm

Articles

‘I lived for those mornings’: Parents’ experiences of visiting their children in care
Polly Baynes

Promoting the rights of infants in care: Advocating advocacy
Tarja Pösö

An evaluation of a 10-week Nurturing Attachments group: Exploring quantitative and qualitative outcomes for foster carers and children in care
Matthew Hershon, Anita Holtom-Viesel, Claudine Fox

Experiences of parental regret among Australian foster parents
Damien W Riggs, Shoshana Rosenberg, Stacy Blythe

‘We lacked crucial information about the child’s ethnicity and cultural background…’: Challenging post-racial phantasmagoria and promoting race intentionality in transracial adoption
TPC Cane, SS Puhan

Health Notes

Implementing an Advanced Nurse Practitioner-led vaccination clinic for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC): A quality improvement project
Katie Gilbert

Legal Notes

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