The British Association for Adoption and Development (BAAF) (until 2001, British Agencies for Adoption and Development ) is a membership association established in 1980 and a charitable organization registered. Membership is open to organizations and individuals concerned with adoption and child coaching. Company members include local authorities, independent coaching agencies, voluntary adoption agencies, NHS trusts, law firms and voluntary organizations. Individual members include social workers, health professionals, legal professionals, adopters and foster caregivers. The annual review of BAAF 2013-14 reports the membership of more than 450 companies and 1400 individual members.
On July 31, 2015 the supervisory board announced the immediate closure of the charity. In an obscure explanation, he called "significant changes and prevailing economic conditions" as the reason for a surprising and abrupt closure. The charity is bankrupt and in administration. Some BAAF functions in the UK are moved to the Coram children's charity, with a new entity to be created called CoramBAAF Adoption and Fostering Academy .
After closing, the former chief executive and chief executive acted, and a group of former staff members made a separate request to the Charity Commission for investigation. According to the Civil Society Governance website "Letters (former) are believed to indicate that regulators' guides for charity fighting have not been obeyed in the months before the collapse, and that more can be done to keep BAAF from closing".
By Children & amp; Youth Now publication Anthony Douglas, CAFCASS chief executive who heads the BAAF board, "declined to comment" on its board's decision to close the charity.
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BAAF service
Until its conclusion, BAAF is a membership association, publisher, training provider, and consulting services. In collaboration with Sage Publications publishes an academic journal Adoption & amp; Foster . Post-qualification training is delivered in partnership with Sheffield Hallam University in England, with Stirling University in Scotland and with QUB in Northern Ireland.
BAAF also manages the family search service Be My Parent which consists of the website www.bemyparent.org.uk and the newspaper Be My Parent . Both services Be My Parent feature children who need foster or permanent foster families. The website also offers information, articles, and true stories of adoption and coaching.
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Contracted service
BAAF manages the Adoption List for England and Wales , under contract with the governments of England and Wales, Scottish Adoption Admissions, funded by the Scottish Government, and the Regional Information System Adoption for Northern Ireland (ARIS) for Northern Ireland Executives. This register stores records of waiting children for adoption and approved prospective adopters awaiting adoption placement.
BAAF operates an Independent Review Mechanisms (IRM) in England and Wales, representing each of the governments of England and Wales. The IRM reviews adoption decisions and fosters institutions for their approval of adopters and foster caregivers, and on disclosure of adoption records.
Public policy and public information
BAAF works to improve public understanding of adoption and child coaching. And it is lobbying for reform if necessary. It has campaigned for unmarried couples, including same-sex couples, who are allowed to adopt together, for the right of the adopted and the donor to be conceived to receive information about their birth family, and for foster children to remain in treatment after the age of 18 years.
In 2009 BAAF support for LGBT adoption generated public apology after Daily Mail exposed the use of the word "retard" to refer to the adoption criticism by gay men. Mencap, charity for people with learning disabilities, calls the use of the word "disgrace".
BAAF runs National Adoption Week , dedicated to finding families for the longest waiting children, and Somse Else's Child , the first national campaign for personal coaching.
Management
In December 2014, Caroline Selkirk became the new Chief Executive. BAAF has advertised the "visionary" Chief Executive with a salary of up to Ã, Â £ 100,000. Seven months later his charity no longer exists.
Ms. Selkirk was previously employed by NHS Tayside as Deputy Chief Executive of May 2011. She started her career as a state registered chiropodist working in England and Scotland before undertaking the MSc in Health Promotion and Health Education. He works in a number of health promotion and management positions in southern England. In 1994 he moved to the West Sussex Health Authority as a Contract Manager and later became Assistant Director of Performance Management.
In 2000, Ms. Selkirk returned to Scotland and was appointed Assistant Director of Planning at NHS Tayside. He was appointed Director of Change and Innovation in 2003.
Ms Selkirk replaces Barbara Hutchinson who has a position as Interim Chief Executive. Ms. Hutchinson is a former Deputy Chief Executive of BAAF. He returned to BAAF from retirement to take a temporary position on May 30, 2014. It follows the departure of Srabani Sen who is Chief Executive from December 2013 to May 2014. Sen left BAAF so soon after his appointment to "pursue exciting opportunities that have recently appear ". Ms Sen's Linkedin profile later reports that he is the Director of Lead for Change, which "works with organizations to give them a competitive edge and a sustainable future by embedding the needs and aspirations of their clients and service users into their strategy, leadership and governance.".
The Supervisory Board is headed by Anthony Douglas who is the Chief Executive of CAFCASS, Adviser and Child Support Services and Family Courts.
Revenue
BAAF increases revenue from membership fees, sales of publications and services, fees for public contracts, and through charitable donations. In 2010 controversially received a 100,000 pounds grant from Ladbrokes, the bookmaker.
Customer
The President of BAAF is Rupert Hambro. Customers include Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, Nicky Campbell, presenter of BBC Radio 5 Live, adopted, hairdresser Andrew Barton, interior designer Annabel Elliot, Clare Grogan, and Nimmy March.
In 2014, Butler-Sloss resigned as head of the investigation of child sex abuse. It follows accusations that in a previous review "he wanted to exclude some of his allegations in an attempt to protect the Church of England" according to the BBC, since he "cares deeply about the Church".
Archive
- The British Association of Adoption and Coaching catalog catalogs held at LSE Archive
External links
- Official website
References
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