Our policy and practice webinars help busy social work professionals understand changes in law, policy and statutory guidance. We approach national changes in a practical way, focusing on what they mean for everyday practice. Each webinar is led by experts and provides clear advice, useful examples and key information to support professionals and increase confidence for services navigating change. The aim is to help practitioners stay informed, improve their practice and achieve better outcomes for the people they support. You'll find recordings of our recent briefing sessions here.
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Kinship Care Law Commission Consultation : Introducing New Legislation (Kinship Care Order & Kinship Parental Responsibility Agreement)
The Law Commission has published its Kinship Care Consultation Paper. It sets out the key issues they have identified with the legal frameworks that govern different types of kinship care arrangements. Alongside reflections and analysis, the paper also sets out their provisional proposals for reform. Join our legal and kinship consultants for opportunities over three lunchtime events to hear the proposals and share your thoughts. You are welcome to attend any or all 3 events as each will cover a different area.
The deadline for responses to the consultation is 16 October 2026
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Kinship Care Law Commission Consultation : Amendments to Current Legislation (SGOs, CAOs and Kinship Foster Care)
The Law Commission has published its Kinship Care Consultation Paper. It sets out the key issues they have identified with the legal frameworks that govern different types of kinship care arrangements. Alongside reflections and analysis, the paper also sets out their provisional proposals for reform. Join our legal and kinship consultants for opportunities over three lunchtime events to hear the proposals and share your thoughts. You are welcome to attend any or all 3 events as each will cover a different area.
The deadline for responses to the consultation is 16 October 2026
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Briefing: Fostering Draft Quality and Development Standards Consultation
Consultation closing date - 16 September 2026
This is an important event for members with lived experience (care experience, foster carers and kinship carers) and those in fostering and kinship care. The Department for Education Fostering Policy team have published Draft Fostering Quality and Development Standards. These replace the National Minimum Standards and the Training, Support and Development Standards. The standards will be finalised and rolled out later this year.
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Improving the local offer and approach to kinship care
Dr Jahnine Davis, National Kinship Care Ambassador, recently published her Insights Report Improving the kinship local offer and approach to kinship care. Drawing on her engagement with key stakeholders since being in post, she sets out “characteristics of promising practice and the considerations needed to design kinship support that is coherent and deliverable”. The report is a much-needed reflection on the complexities of the kinship care system, and explores some of the inherent tensions when we continue to think about kinship care as part of the fostering and adoption paradigm
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Children's Wellbeing and Schools Act
The Children's Wellbeing and Schools Act has received Royal Assent, introducing significant new duties and measures with implications for child protection, fostering, and kinship care practice and policy. This briefing is for Coram BAAF members working in fostering, and kinship care, and will also be of interest to legal professionals, health professionals, researchers and those impacted by the changes. It will clarify some of the new duties, implementation timescales, and actions your service may need to take or consider.
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CoramBAAF Fostering reform briefing: Kinship fostering
On 3 February 2026 the Government announced a long-awaited reform of the fostering system in England. This is the most significant reform of fostering in a generation and will have a impact on kinship fostering practice, as well as fostering services more widely.
In this session, we are delighted to be joined by the Department for Education to discuss the potential changes, the consultation and call for evidence from a kinship perspective.
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Fostering reform – Implications for social workers, local authorities and agencies
As the government advances its latest fostering reforms, all fostering services are facing significant changes to policy, practice and guidance. We are delighted to welcome the Department for Education to speak to us about these reforms. Designed for social workers, managers and local authority leaders, this session will start the conversation on the government’s reform agenda and what it means for practice, as well as providing a basis to help teams prepare for a changing landscape.
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