Secure Base model

A framework and resources to support therapeutic caregiving in foster care, adoption and residential care. Gillian Schofield & Mary Beek, CRCF, UEA.

[Jonny Hoyle @Jonnyhoyle1]

YESSSS Brad! Totally brilliant and congrats on winning #ThePiano your success just goes to show that #CareLeaversCan, as you say "we just need to be surrounded by the right people" (and opportunities)

[Rebekah Pierre @RebekahPierre92]

Honoured beyond measure to have had a room full of love, support & allyship at the Free Loaves on Fridays launch.

Forever grateful to 100 authors for your bravery, courage & strength. You have moved mountains.

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[Secure Base model @securebasemodel]

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100% of UEA social work/social policy impact case studies rated as 4*in REF21 - featuring our work on the Secure Base model & contact after adoption

Secure Base Model
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[Beth Neil @prof_beth_neil]

Thanks @sallydwrites for featuring this, and @AdoptionWest for feeding back on practice issues. https://t.co/BD10AisGRt @securebasemodel

[Beth Neil @prof_beth_neil]

February's Adoption Today, with article on moving children to adoption, UEA model. Contributions from @AdoptionWest, foster carers and adoptive parents. FCs said "...there was no sudden cut off from us as we have experienced before, which always seems traumatic for everyone"

[Beth Neil @prof_beth_neil]

9. please take time to watch to Meg and Tom. they are just fab! and my colleague Janet Barker discussing implementation. guidance available in our good practice guide https://t.co/M2Z4tfkQX0 written with Mary Beek and Gillian Schofield and website. https://t.co/BD10AisGRt

[Beth Neil @prof_beth_neil]

8. girls have made great leaps in new family - Meg and Tom feel they have been able to do this because of the TRUST they built with children before they moved in.

[Beth Neil @prof_beth_neil]

7. excellent work too by the social worker - great preparation meant that meg and tom fully understood not just about attachment but also loss - e.g. they noticed the child looking for the (absent) dog under her high chair. SW was there for them to 'lean back on' throughout.

[Beth Neil @prof_beth_neil]

6. shout out to the 'amazing' foster carer who supported the girls emotionally throughout and was 'gentle' with meg and Tom. FC visited the morning after their first night with Meg and Tom, then twice more in first week. the overlap between the two families was about 7 weeks

[Beth Neil @prof_beth_neil]

5. together with FC they worked to create continuity of environment for children - transitional objects, smells, replicating features of FC home- inc the 'grimy blanket' that 'worked wonders' in helping children settle.

[Beth Neil @prof_beth_neil]

3. Meg and Tom visited regularly but did not 'impose' on girls - playful interaction, then learning care routines by observing foster carer. they waited for the children to show a readiness to trust them before each step forward, reading the children's non verbal cues.

[Beth Neil @prof_beth_neil]

Do check out this @CoramBAAF webinar about moving children to adoption https://t.co/oSzjpqp190
based on https://t.co/BD10AisGRt. I re watched today and was blown away again by the contribution of adoptive parents Meg and Tom (starts at 27 mins) 1/1

[Beth Neil @prof_beth_neil]

Relationship-based practice and digital technology in child and family social work: Learning from practice during the COVID-19 pandemic - Ruth Copson, Anne M Murphy, Laura Cook, Elsbeth Neil, Pernille Sorensen, 2022 THREAD https://t.co/dCDSmkmpZu

[Beth Neil @prof_beth_neil]

We will be launching the findings of our study into long term foster care on Friday. You can book on the webinar here. https://t.co/fD5q7iLm0S
We used national data and surveyed/interviewed managers to find out how regulations about long term foster care are being implemented.

[Martin Barrow @MartinBarrow]

New study into the impact of regulations and guidance on long-term foster care (Department for Education 2015), published by @CRCF1 @OfficialUoM with funding from @NuffieldFound
https://t.co/NyLPpDEOt4

[Jonny Hoyle @Jonnyhoyle1]

My foster mum has delivered us a tray full of caramel shortbread for absolutely no reason other than she was thinking about us.... I'm 36!! That's what holding someone in mind is, and it feels (and tastes) blooming brilliant

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