Family and Community

Family & Community external events listings are posted to inform the wider community about external events including workshops, opportunities for families, children and young people, and helpful resources.

  • Private Fostering Awareness Day: Breakfast Briefing

    CoramBAAF is delighted to be running the fourth national Private Fostering Awareness Day: Breakfast Briefing.
  • The Adoption Barometer

    Offered by CORAM BAAF, Adoption UK’s Adoption Barometer is the UK’s only annual stocktake of the impact of policy and practice on the lives of adoptees and adoptive families.
  • Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act

    The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act has received Royal Assent, introducing significant new duties and measures with implications for child protection, fostering, and kinship care practice and policy. This briefing is for Coram BAAF members working in fostering, and kinship care.
  • Neurodiversity

    Offered by Children in Wales, gain a clear understanding of neurodiversity, how it presents in children and young people, and how to recognise early signs of need.
  • Children’s Rights and the Early Years

    Offered by Children in Wales, this Welsh Government funded training course is aimed at practitioners working with babies and young children under seven years or with their families in a range of settings.
  • Children’s Rights and Participation for Young People Aged 11-25

    Offered by Children in Wales and funded by Welsh Government- this course uses fun and engaging activities throughout the day. The Children’s Rights and Participation for Young People Aged 11-25 course will set out the theoretical and legislative framework for young people’s participation in Wales.
  • Supporting Care Experienced Children – From Commitment to Action

    Offered by Children in Wales and funded by Welsh Government, this training session is designed to help organisations gain a clear and practical understanding of what corporate parenting means, particularly in relation to the principles and promises of the Corporate Parenting Charter in Wales.
  • Children’s Rights and Participation for Children Under 11 Years

    Come and learn about the rights of children under 11 in the Welsh context in this course offered by Children in Wales and funded by Welsh Government.
  • Approval, Support and Review of Kinship Foster Carers

    Reflect on the statutory framework for approval, support, supervision and review of kinship foster carers; including the key differences between kinship and mainstream fostering in this course offered through CORAM BAAF.
  • Effective Minute Taking

    Understand the statutory requirements around minute-taking and develop your practice skills to ensure that minutes are accurate, informative and high quality in this course offered by CORAM BAAF.