• Adoption UK

• CCS Adoption Useful Books List

• All Coates: Adoption, Fostering, Children, Social Work
• The Best Adoption Podcasts

• We Are Family: Adoption Support Community

• PAC-UK Education Resources – Speak to PAC-UK’s Education Service about issues to do with meeting the educational needs of permanently placed children and young people.
• Beacon House, therapeutic services and trauma team – resources on trauma and education.
• Adoption UK is a national membership charity providing support, community and advocacy for all those parenting or supporting children who cannot live with their birth parents.
• Inner World Work is an online parent and carer-free support resource centre for children, parents and carers who have experienced trauma.
• Education Otherwise is a charity which supports and provides information to home-educating families in England and Wales.
• Emma Spillane runs a local attachment and trauma training and consultancy service for schools.

• Education Reading List from CCS

• Questions to ask when choosing a Primary School
• Adoptive parents’ checklist for the transition from Primary to Secondary School
• Survival in Primary School from Inner World Work
• Survival in Secondary School from Inner World Work
• Behaviour regulation policy – A Relationship-based guide to Inclusion from Brighton and Hove Local Authority
• Seeing Children through a Polyvagal Lens – brain-based approach to Behaviour in School
• Simple Strategies to Support Adopted and Permanently Placed Children in School from PAC UK
• Home Educating In Forever Families Facebook Group
• Free Pupil Premium Plus Guide
• What you need to know about school webinar
• CATCH – Children and Trauma Community Hub

• SOS SEN! offer a free, friendly, independent and confidential telephone helpline for parents and others looking for information and advice on Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND)
• SOS!SEN EHCP guide
• Independent Provider of Special Education Advice IPSEA
• Watkins solicitors: Education and ECHP support. They run low-cost training for parents

• Bristol
• South Gloucestershire
• North Somerset
• Bath and North East Somerset
• Wiltshire
• Gloucester

• YouCanAdopt is a site produced to accompany a national recruitment campaign for more adopters. Interesting podcasts and video clips from those who have adopted.

• First4Adoption is the national adoption information service for England. The website is a great starting point for those considering adoption.

• Story Hunter: Some Families podcast

• New Family Social

• Embrace Race
• Race Conscious: Raising Race Conscious Children

• Angela Tucker: Closure – A Documentary About Adoption

• Home for Good

• National Association of Therapeutic Parenting
• The Potato Group: Parenting Adopted Teenagers
• Creating a Family
• Connective Family

• Parenting Children after Trauma Facebook Group
• Beacon House
• The Child Psychology Service

• Connective Family: Connective Parenting Podcast

• “Life Work with Children who are Fostered or Adopted: Using Diverse Techniques in a Coordinated Approach” by Joy Rees. This includes life storybook examples in the book as well as a link for downloadable examples.
• “Why was I adopted?” By Jan Jackson. This short guide looks at some of the most common big adoption questions that adopted children ask and explores the feelings and worries that can lie behind a child’s questions, with useful suggested dialogues.
• “Life Story Work with Children who are Fostered or Adopted: Creative Ideas and Activities” by Katie Wrench and Lesley Naylor.

• 5-minute video by Joy Rees talking about the process of life story work.

• Special Needs Jungle

• Thriving Adoptees – Let’s Thrive

• Adopted for Life

• The Gottman Institute

• FASD Success

The Bristol Zoo Project and We The Curious Passes are available to book for CCS Adoption families only (maximum of 2 adults and 3 children) for a suggested donation of £20.

• To book, please contact us in advance during our office hours at activities@ccsadoption.org / 0117 935 0005, indicating the date and arrival time options and the number of adults/children the pass is required for.
• Please make payment via our Donation page and under the ‘Reason for your donation’, please add ‘Bristol Zoo Pass’ or ‘We The Curious Pass’.

* The booking reference will be sent to you by email, so you don’t have to pick up an actual ticket from the office. 
* The donation goes towards the yearly renewal of the pass so we can offer this again each year.