Item category 2: Adoption Stock

From understanding what adoption is, through to step by step guidance on the entire process and the challenges that come up along the way, this is the only book you will need to read on adoption. Written by an author who was adopted herself, who has looked after over twenty children and who works...

This text approaches attachment and developmental issues arising when a child is in your care. It offers guidance on the areas of separation, loss and trauma in early childhood.

Providing practical tips and suggestions about work with genetically related and unrelated siblings in many different situations and circumstances, this text covers a wide range of issues including knowing the child and the sibling group, recruiting and preparing families for each sibling group, ...

This user-friendly guide will help social workers to recognise the challenges of kinship care and be better prepared to support kinship placements.

This handbook aims to give families and friends who are kinship carers, or may become kinship carers, information about the choices they can make, the assessment process, the legal framework, the childcare system, the support they can expect and the financial help available.