Staying in touch: a planning tool for children in permanent families: Practice Tool (2024)
Part of Staying in touch: Contact after adoption.
Introduction
This planning tool is based on the evidence in the Contact: making good decisions for children in public law: Frontline Briefing (2024). It sets out a six-step approach for practitioners to consider when planning and reviewing keeping in touch arrangements:
- What is the purpose of keeping in touch?
- Who is important now or in the future?
- What are the strengths and challenges?
- Provisional keeping in touch plan.
- Provisional support plan.
- Reviewing the plan.
Professional Standards
PQS:KSS - Child and family assessment | Analysis, decision-making, planning and review | Relationships and effective direct work | Developing excellent practitioners | Confident analysis and decision-making
PCF - Knowledge | Critical reflection and analysis
Staying in touch: Contact after adoption
An open access resource hub for practitioners working with individuals to maintain meaningful relationships after adoption.
Contact: making good decisions for children in public law: Frontline Briefing (2024)
This briefing is one of a suite of resources aimed at those involved in helping children keep in touch with their own history and with important people when they are fostered, adopted or in kinship care.