Making a Complaint for Children and Young People
Making a Complaint For Children and Young People
DROP IN: Using the Permanence Guides in Practice (Member only Surgery)
In March 2026, AFKA Scotland launched The Good Practice in Permanence Guides – a series of practice guides centred around Building and Nurturing Connections, Supporting Birth Families and Supporting Families Providing Permanence Care. This surgery is of interest to practitioners and managers who are supporting children with a plan for permanence and are using the guides …
Compliance with the GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018
Overview of the General Data Protection Regulation The Charity will ensure that all personal data that it holds will be: processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner; collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes; adequate, relevant and limited to what is …
Consortia Membership
AFKA Scotland hosts two Consortia (West & North East) funded by a separate membership fee, providing a local forum for members to hear about and share latest developments in policy, legislation, practice and research. This localised membership allows us to support you, the workforce, by sharing knowledge and practice in a way which can meet …
Transitions and Staying Connected Community of Practice (Member only Surgery)
AFKA Scotland launched a free online Toolkit to support and develop practice in permanence transitions and to help children and young people stay connected with people important to them during transitions and beyond. This surgery is of interest to practitioners and managers who are supporting children with a plan for permanence. There will be opportunity …
Fostering Practitioners Community of Practice (Consortia Members Only)
This forum provides an opportunity for supervising social workers to share emerging practice and ideas, discuss the latest developments in policy, legislation, and research as it relates to fostering. It also facilitates the sharing of knowledge and expertise as well as space to discuss practice issues and dilemmas. The forum is open to supervising social …
Intercountry Adoption Community of Practice (Member only Surgery)
These surgeries will be of particular interest to social workers practising in family placement. It provides practitioners with an opportunity to share their experiences, knowledge and develop good practice in this area. This has been changed from forums to surgeries and will now take place two times a year.
Guardianship Orders and Kinship Care Orders
Each Order bestows Parental Rights and Responsibilities (PRRs) for a child on an adult who had not held these. They are both private law Orders under the Children (Scotland) Act 1995. Any decision by a Court will be based on three broad principles, namely: (i) The child’s welfare is paramount; (ii) No Order will be …
Overseas Checks in Fostering, Kinship and Adoption Assessments
Sound checks and references are of key importance in assessing alternative family carers. They do not “stand alone” but are something which should influence the whole assessment. Applicants to foster or adopt, or prospective kinship carers, will sometimes have lived or spent significant periods of their lives overseas, and/or may have been born abroad and …
What are Interagency Fees in Scotland?
A standard interagency fee charged when adopters approved by one Adoption Agency are matched with a child in the care of another in Scotland was established in 2016. The interagency fee covers the costs of recruiting and assessing prospective adopters, matching, placement and supervision and support up to the point of the adoption order. Interagency …