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Adoptive Parents & Foster Carers: Good Practice |
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Documents
Resource pack published by NCB for foster carers and residential staff.
Listening to What Women Say: Philip Gilligan with Shamim Akhtar
Helping children do well in long term foster care
Guide for lone parents, this document is also useful to foster parents.
Links
Link: Fostering Practice Guide 3
Good practice in fostering. Published by the Social Care Institute for Excellence.
Link: Fostering Now
Research into Fostering.
Link: How can children be helped to do better at school?
A review of a major conference in Kent looking at how children in care can be helped to do better at school.
Link: Promoting resilience in fostered children and young people
A Social Care Institute for Excellence publication.
Link: Understanding Why
Publication from the NCB, understanding attachment and how this can affect education. This publication helps teachers to think about why a child who is adopted or fostered might be behaving in a particular way in the classroom setting.
Link: Kent's pledge to children and young people in care