CoramBAAF Services
AFKA Scotland works in partnership with CoramBAAF, a UK-wide membership organisation for professionals, foster carers, kinship carers and adopters, and all those looking after or working with children and adults in care or who have experienced the care system.
Jointly, our members make up the largest UK-wide network of organisations and individuals involved with children throughout the care system.
Through this partnership, AFKA Scotland’s Corporate Members* and their staff are entitled to receive services and resources from CoramBAAF, including:
Services
- Information from national advisory committees and groups.
- Monthly e-newsletters including CoramBAAF News and CoramBAAF Digest.
- Subscription to the electronic forms licence scheme at member rates.
Resources
- See our CoramBAAF resources page for a list of all the resources available to AFKA Scotland Corporate Members from the CoramBAAF website.
E-books
To download any of the E-books listed below, please contact your local agency CoramBAAF link person to obtain the access code.
Available to: Local Authorities
- Child Care Law Scotland
- Child sexual abuse in foster and kinship care, special guardianship and adoption: learning from safeguarding reviews 2007-2022
- Exploring and assessing motivations to adopt
- Parenting a child with toileting issues
- Dealing with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
- The adopter’s handbook on education
- Adoption by foster carers
- Parenting a child with eating and food issues
Available to: Voluntary Adoption Agencies
- Group work with adopted children and young people
- Child sexual abuse in foster and kinship care, special guardianship and adoption: learning from safeguarding reviews 2007-2022
- Exploring and assessing motivations to adopt
- Parenting a child with toileting issues
- Dealing with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
- The adopter’s handbook on education
- Adoption by foster carers
- Parenting a child with eating and food issues
Available to: Independent Fostering Providers
- Child Care Law Scotland
- Child sexual abuse in foster and kinship care, special guardianship and adoption: learning from safeguarding reviews 2007-2022
- Parent and child fostering
- Parenting a child with toileting issues
- Dealing with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
- The foster carer’s handbook on parenting teenagers
- Access to information for adult care leavers
- Parenting a child with eating and food issues
*Note that Corporate Members of AFKA Scotland include all of Scotland’s 32 local authorities, VAAs and many independent fostering providers – if you are an employee of any of these organisations you are entitled to these membership benefits.