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Adoption and fostering

ADCS (2014) Impact of Co urt Judgments on Adoption

Behavioural Insights Team (2015) Exploring Adoption ‘Matching’ Decisions

Boswell, S. & Cudmore, L. (2015) The Child ren Were Fine

Cafcass (2014) Adoption and Surrogacy Han dbook

Cafcass (no date) Good P ractice for Adoption Agencies and Cafcass – Children Relinquished for Adoption

Department for Education (2013) Adoption: statutory guidance

Department for Education (2011) Ado ption and Children Act 2002

Department for Education (2014) Beyond the Adoption Order: challenges, interventions and adoption disr uption

Department for Education (2014) Early Permanence Placements and Approval of Prospective Adopters as Foster Carers Statutory Guidance – England

Directorate General for Internal Policies (2015) Adoption without consent

Family Law Week (2014) CM v Blackburn with Darwen Borough Coun cil [2014] EWCA Civ 1479

Narey, Martin (2015) Matching Paper by Sir Mar tin Narey

Reconstruct (2015) Adoption: What Helps to Prevent Disruption

Reconstruct (2015) Adoption Disruption: The Views of Young People and Adoptive Pare nts

Advocacy & Entitlements

All Parliamentary Group for Looked After Children and Care Leavers (2013) The Te n Entitlements – children in care and care leavers

All Parliamentary Group for Looked After Children and Care Leavers (2014) The Entitlement s Inquiry One Year On Report

Department for Education and Skills (2004) Guidance on pr oviding effective advocacy

Department for Education (no date) Young people’s guid e to the IRO Handbook

Mercer, Kate (2015) Advocac y under the C a re Act

Ofsted (2012) Young_people’s_views_on_complaints_and_advocacy1

The Who Cares Trust (2013) Entitlements Inquiry report for young_people

Assessment

ADCS & Home Office (2015) Age Assessment J oint Working Guidance

Department for Education (2014) Assessing Parental Capacity to C hange when Children are on the Edge of Care: an overview of current resear ch evidence

Department For Education (2014) Missed opportunities: indicators of neglect – what is ignored, why, and what can be done? Research report

Asylum Seeker

Department for Education (2014) Care of unaccom panied and trafficked child ren – statutory guidance

Attachment

Guthrie, Lydia (2015) Attachment-base d Practice with Adults: Understanding Strategies and Promoting Positive Change

NICE (2015) Children’s atta chment: a ttachment in children and young people who are adopted from care, in care or at high risk of goi ng into care

Schofield, Gillian & Beek, Mary (2009) Growin g up in foster care – providing a secure base through adolescence

Schofield, Gillian & Beek, Mary (no date) Secure Base M odel

Care & Care Planning

ADCS (2016) Practice Guidance for the use of S20 provision in the Children Act 1989 in England and the Equivalent S76 of the Social Services and well-being (Wales) Act 2014 In Wales

Consensus (2015) Achieving a Reduction in Restrict ive Physical Interventions

Ofsted (2015) “what children and young people living in children’s h omes or with foster carers told us was most important to them“

Ofsted (2015) “what adults told us were area s for improvement for children’s homes, fostering services and adoption services“

Department for Education (2015) Children Act 1989 guidance and regulations volume 2: care planning, placement and case r eview

Department for Education (2010) Your Plans, Your Placements”, Your Reviews and Short breaks

Department for Education (2014) Academic Lecture: Investigating Special Guardianship

Department for Education (2014) Early permanence placements and approval of prospective adopters as foster car ers

Department for Education (2014) Childre n in care Research priorities and questions

Department for Education (2015) Delegation of authority to foster carers

Department for Education (2015) Permanence, lo ng- term foster placements and ceasing to look after a child

Family Law Week (2014) Case law: CM v Blackburn with D arwen Borough Council (2014)

Family Law Week (2014) Surrey County Council v S (201 4) (Adoption, Role of agency decision maker) (2014)

Loughborough University (2015) Taking care: practice framewo rk for reunific ation: evaluation report

NYAS (2016) May 2016 KR CG NYAS presentation to SEIRON Planning for Permanence C onference, 20th May 2016

Swain, V. (2016) Keep Connected – Maintaining R elationships When Moving On

Thomas, Caroline (2013) Adoption for looked after children: messages from research An o verview of the Adoption research initiative

University of East Anglia (2014) Care Planning and the Role of the Independent Re viewing Officer Research Briefing

Care Leaver

Access All Areas (2015) Messages from care leav ers to a new Government

Barnardos (2015) Care Leav ers Accommodation and Support Framework

Catch22 NCAS (2014) Staying Put – what does it mean

Department for Education (2012) Care Leavers Charter

Department for Education (2014) Care Act 2014: Planning transitions from children’s to adult services

Department for Education (2014) Care Lea vers Strategy Update 2014

Department for Education (2015) The Children Act Gu idance Planning Transition

Department for Education (2015) Finding their feet report – full report, January 2015

Department for Education (2015) Finding t heir feet executive summary

National Audit Office (2015) Care leavers transiti on to adulthood full report

National Audit Office (2015) Care leav ers transition to adulthood summary

NSPCC (2014) Supporting children and families returning home from care Counting the Costs

Child Development

TED Talks (2015) Sarah-Jayne Blakemore: Th e mysterious workings of the adolescent brain

TED Talks (2015) Alison Gopnik: Wha t do babies think?

Wasted, D. & White, S. (2012) Blinded by neuroscience: social policy, the family and the infant brain

Child Protection

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Contact and visits

Family Rights Group (2015) Research findings on managing contact with parents and relatives for children living in family and friends care a rrangements

Howes, Norma (2014) A trauma model for planning, assessing and reviewing contact for looked -after children

Ofsted (2009) Kee ping in touch: A report of children’s experience by the Children’s Rights Director for England

Research in Practice (2014) Man aging the Risks and Benefits of Contact

Women’s Aid (2016) Child First Safe Contact Saves Lives

Disability

Department for Education (2010) You r Plans, Your Placements, Your Reviews and Short breaks

Department for Education (2010) Short breaks for disabled children

Department for Education (2015) The Special Educational Needs and Disability Pathfinder Programme Evaluation Final Impact Research Report

Larkins, Cath, Thomas, Nigel Patrick and Judd, Dawn Beatrice (2013) “We want to help people see things our way”: A rights-based analysis of disabled children’s experience living with low income.

Skills for Care (not dated) Children in transition to adult services slide pack, workbooks and handouts

Voiceability Easy Read Services

Education

Department for Education (2014) Promoting the education of looked after childrenStatutory guidance for local authorities

Rees Centre/University of Bristol (2015) The Educational Progress of Looked After Children in England: Linking Care and Educational Data

Waters, Trisha (2010) The Use of Therapeutic Storywriting to support Pupils with Behavioural, Emotional and Social Difficulties

Waters, Trisha (2014) Story Links: working with parents of pupils at risk of exclusion

Family Support, Safeguarding & Child Protection

Beckett, Helen (2015) Child Sexual Exploitation Examining the national crisis and improving prevention & detection

Broadhurst, Karen., et al (2015) Vulnerable birth mothers and repeat losses of infants to public care: is targeted reproductive health care ethically defensible?

CRCT & UEA (2014) A study of the support needs of sex workers across Norfolk, UK

CRCT & UEA (2014) Routes into sexual exploitation: personal perspectives about going missing, agency and victimhood ‘At the time I just thought it was normal’

Children’s Commissioner for England (2015) Protecting Children from harm: a critical assessment of child sexual abuse in the family network in England and priorities for action

Children’s Commissioner for England (2015) Children’s Commissioner: Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in the Family Environment

Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry (2015) Children’s experiences of domestic violence and abuse: Siblings’ accounts of relational coping

Family Law Week (2015) Female Genital Mutilation

Five Rivers (2015) CSE & Trafficked Children: Aiding the Recovery from Adverse Childhood Experiences through attachment and trauma informed care and therapy

Holmes, D. & Ireland, A. (2015) Sexual exploitation of vulnerable people

Home Office (2013) Domestic violence homicide reviews – lessons learned

Home Office (2015) Controlling or Coercive Behaviour in an Intimate or Family Relationship Statutory Guidance Framework

HM Government (2015) Preventing Radicalisation

HM Government (2016) Multi-agency statutory guidance on female genital mutilation

Journal of Interpersonal Violence (2015) Beyond “Witnessing: Children’s Experiences of Coercive Control in Domestic Violence and Abuse

Molloy, Jenny (2015) Successful Intervention in Cases of Neglect

PaceUK Parents Against Child Sexual Exploitation Website link

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council (2015) Serious Case Review (CSE) – Rotherham Report

Oxfordshire LSCB (2015) Serious Case Review into Child Sexual Exploitation in Oxfordshire

The Children’s Society (2015) Full report: Seriously Awkward: How vulnerable 16–17 year olds are falling through the cracks

The Children’s Society (2015) Summary report: Seriously Awkward: Summary report

The Children’s Society (2015) Old enough to know better?: Why sexually exploited teenagers are being overlooked – Summary report

Tigh, S.M & Laylor, J.G. (2015) Concealed Pregnancy A Concept Analysis-2

UNARS (2015) Understanding Agency & Resistance Strategies: Children in situations of domestic violence & abuse

Williams, W. & Clarke, B. (2016) Dangerous associations: Joint enterprise, gangs and racism An analysis of the processes of criminalisation of Black, Asian and minority ethnic individuals & Key Findings

Fathers

University of Leeds (2015) Seeing Young Fathers in a Different Way: Lived Experiences, Policy Challenges, Practice Developments Following Young Fathers conference report

Health

Department for Education (2015) Promoting the health and wellbeing of looked after children

IRO Handbook

Department for Children, Schools and Families (2010) The IRO Handbook

IRO Tool Box

National IRO Manager Partnership (2015) The IRO Toolbox contains documents and templates developed and endorsed by the National IRO Manager Partnership and as such these documents carry the partnership logo.