Placement issues
including allegations, attachment, behaviour, health and safety, IROs, parental responsibility and decision-making, record keeping...
Consultation responses
- Consultation response on the planning transitions to adulthood guidance (2010) PDF
- Consultation response: Care Planning, Placement and Case Review Regulations (2010) Word
- Response to inquiry into arrangements for the placement of children into care (2009) www.assemblywales.org
- Young people's feedback on the planning transitions to adulthood guidance (2010) PDF
Good practice guidance
Information sheets
Policy and position statements
Publications
- Attachment (2008) Order online
- Attachment activity sheet PDF
- Behaviour (2009) Order online
- Behaviour activity sheet (2009) PDF
- Contact (2008) Order online
- Contact activity sheet (2009) PDF
- Dealing with a fostering breakdown (1996) Order online
- Foster care placement (2009) Order online
- Fostering a child under five (2007) Order online
- Fostering a child who has been sexually abused (2009) Order online
- Fostering a teenager (2007) Order online
- Record keeping (2009) Order online
- Reviews and meetings (2007) Order online
- Safer caring (2006) Order online
- Safer caring activity sheet (2009) PDF
- Welcoming the fostered child (2009) Order online
- Working with social workers (2009) Order online
Reports
Resource lists
- Contact (2009) PDF Members only
- Family finding services (2010) PDF Members only
- Life story work (2009) PDF Members only
- Managing behaviour (2010) PDF Members only
- Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (2009) PDF Members only
- Permanence (2009) PDF Members only
Useful links
- BUPA health information www.bupa.co.uk/health_information
- CAFCASS www.cafcass.gov.uk
- Child Accident Prevention Trust www.capt.org.uk
- Children First Aid - British Red Cross www.childrenfirstaid.redcross.org.uk
- Children's Law Centre www.childrenslawcentre.org
- Children's Legal Centre www.childrenslegalcentre.com
- Children's Safety Education Foundation www.csef.net
- Hands On Scotland www.handsonscotland.co.uk
- Independent Review Mechanism (Adoption and Fostering) www.irm-adoption.org.uk
- IRM Cymru (2010) www.irmcymru.org.uk
- NSPCC www.nspcc.org.uk
- RoSPA : Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents www.rospa.com
- The Challenging Behaviour Foundation www.thecbf.org.uk/
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