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Contents - Fostering and Adoption
Fostering National Minimum Standards

6.1

Foster Carers

  
6.1.1 Aims and Principles of the Fostering Service  
6.1.2 Fostering Panel  
6.1.3 Assessment and Approval of Foster Carers Updated
6.1.4 BAAF Practice Note No 51 in Relation to Smoking  
6.1.5 Exemptions from Usual Limit and Extensions of Approval  
6.1.6 Persons Disqualified from Fostering  
6.1.7 Conflict of Interest in Fostering  
6.1.8 Review of Foster Carers  
6.1.9 Support, Supervision and Training of Foster Carers  
6.1.10 Notifications to OFSTED  
6.1.11 Allegations or Concerns about Foster Carers or Members of their Household  
6.1.12 Allegations Against Foster Carers Flowchart  
6.1.13 Capital Programme Assistance to Carers  
6.1.14 Wakefield MDC Family Services Foster Care Manual  
6.1.15 Managing Behaviour in Foster Homes  
6.1.16 Wakefield MDC Foster Carer Payment for Skills Scheme  
6.1.17 Support for Foster Carers with Equipment and Furniture  


 
Adoption National Minimum Standards

6.2

Adoption

  
6.2.1 Aims and Principles of the Adoption Service  
6.2.2 Timescales, Quality Assurance and Monitoring Requirements  
6.2.3 Assessment and Approval of Prospective Adopters  
6.2.4 Adoption Panel  
6.2.5 Placement for Adoption  
6.2.6 Adoption Support Services  
6.2.7 Monitoring and Supervision of Adoptive Placements  
6.2.8 Adoption Reviews  
6.2.9 Inter-Country Adoption  
6.2.10 Non-Agency Adoption  
6.2.11 Disruption of Adoptive Placements  
6.2.12 Adoption Case Records  
6.2.13 Access to Birth Records and Adoption Case Records  
6.2.14 Intermediary Services  
6.2.15 Allegations Against Prospective Adopters and in relation to Children Placed for Adoption or already Adopted  
6.2.16 CAFCASS Protocol for Children Relinquished for Adoption  


 

6.3

Other Permanence Options

  
6.3.1 Special Guardianship  
6.3.2 Permanent Fostering  


 

6.4

Adoption and Permanence Guidance

  
6.4.1 Adoption/Permanence Planning for Sibling Groups  
6.4.2 Adoption Plans and Contact Arrangements  
6.4.3 Court Reports in Adoption/Special Guardianship (including 'Annex A' Reports)  
6.4.4 Assessment for Financial Support as Part of a Support Plan Linked to an Adoption, Special Guardianship or Residence Order  
6.4.5 Referral Form for Adoption Residence And Special Guardianship Allowance  
6.4.6 Foster Carers who Wish to Adopt the Child they are Fostering  
6.4.7 Fostering Matching Reports  
6.4.8 Initial Visits to Prospective Adoptive Applicants  
6.4.9 Introduction to Permanent Families  
6.4.10 Later Life Letters  
6.4.11 Life Appreciation Meetings  
6.4.12 Life Story Books and Memory Boxes  

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