Adoption UK Scotland with the support of AFKA have developed a new resource to support those parenting care experienced brothers and sisters.
The Padlet tool is in two parts and is now available online and is free for anyone to use.
Part one looks at understanding and supporting sibling relationships, while Part two covers protecting sibling relationships when children experience distress.
Speaking at the Community of Practice for Siblings webinar on Thursday 21 November, Dr Chris Jones who led on the development of the new tool, said it would be of interest to adoptive parents, foster carers and kinship carers, as well as professionals who support these families.
She said: “The Padlet draws together into one place a range of topics that families and professionals may need to engage with at different points when thinking about sibling relationships. It provides information in bite-sized chunks and signposts to additional resources. We wanted the resource to apply to, and help real life situations and we wanted to ensure that the voice of children, parents and carers was prevalent throughout. We hope it provides a language and a framework of ideas that families and professionals can use together.”
At the session, delegates got to hear how the resource was developed, they also had a chance to look at the information within it (there wasn’t enough time to do it justice!) and then everyone had the opportunity to consider and discuss a series of questions in breakout rooms.
Heather Moonlight, Kinship Care Consultant from KCASS co-chaired our recent event. Speaking afterwards, she said: “Thank you so much to Chris for coming along and telling our community all about the Padlet. What a wonderful resource for our Foster Carers, Kinship Carers and Adoptive parents – and our community as a whole. I am very excited to see how the resource will be used and how practice will develop as a result!”