Funded by the NHS, these online courses offer five free sessions to carers/parents supporting undiagnosed and diagnosed eating disorder needs, using the ‘New Maudsley’ approach.
Professionals
Change to the adoption and special guardian support fund (ASGSF)
A new name change for the Adoption and special guardianship support fund (ASGSF). The ASGSF model is based on the existing statutory framework for the assessment of adoption support or SGO support needs and the provision of support services.
The Adoption Barometer survey 2024 is now open!
Adoption UK needs your help to build the case for more support. This year there is just one survey, for both adopted people and adopters. Share your views of the past year now!
Cornwall Council adoption service to join Adopt South West
Cornwall Council’s adoption service, which also covers the Isles of Scilly, is to join the Regional Adoption Agency, Adopt South West, from April 2024.
Quality mark recognises best practice by Adopt South West
We have achieved a prestigious status for our work in finding caring families for children in the region.
Adoption, it’s a family thing
You might expect the Head of a regional adoption agency to be proud of the work they and their team do, but for Kath Drescher, Head of Adopt South West, adoption has been her life.
Secondary trauma: new Government definition
This very helpful document has just been published providing clarity to professionals around how to support those who have experienced trauma and crucially here the importance of how they need to avoid secondary trauma.
‘A Life Less Ordinary’ national adoption campaign
Adopters are in greatest need for brother and sister groups, older children, those with additional needs and children from ethnic minority backgrounds.