Adoption & Fostering

Adoption has changed hugely in the past few decades. These days, most children placed with adoptive families are not babies; by the time they meet ...

A Practical Guide to Fostering Law is an accessible, jargon-free guide to the key elements of the law that concern foster carers and the profession...

Attaching in Adoption is a comprehensive guide for prospective and actual adoptive parents on how to understand and care for their adopted child an...

Adopted children who have suffered trauma and neglect have structural brain change, as well as specific developmental and emotional needs. They nee...

Foster children are more likely than other children to be involved in risky activities online due to backgrounds of neglect and abuse, an absence o...

Adopted children whose early development has been altered by abuse or neglect may form negative beliefs about themselves and parents, and may resis...

Across Europe young people in public care are around five times less likely to attend tertiary education than those who have not been in care. This...

Fostering is vitally important: the majority of looked after children are fostered, yet these children are often left out of the agenda and their v...

Rejected by her mother and excluded by her school, Flip is a little girl desperate to be loved. Am I ugly, Mummy? are the first words tha...

As an adoptee, do you have mixed feelings about your adoption? If you do, you are not alone - adoptees often experience complex feelings of grief, ...

The perfect starting point for parents of transracially adopted children and those who are considering adopting transracially.The Interracial Adopt...

What is emotional neglect? How does it affect children and the adults they become? What can we do to help?In The Simple Guide to Emotional Neg...

Provides social work practitioners with guidelines for working with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans people interested in fostering or adopting. A...