Conversation & discussion on contemporary Adoption & Fostering
Episodes
Wednesday Oct 18, 2023
Wednesday Oct 18, 2023
Wednesday Oct 18, 2023
Wednesday Oct 18, 2023
Hello and welcome to this edition of conversations from the A&F network.
It’s national adoption week and we’re delighted to speak to birth mother Kristy.
She shares her story of the challenge of having her children removed and how she’s managed to build a life after that event. Her story is not uncommon, domestic abuse and mental ill health being at the start of the story as well as failed letterbox contact after social care professionals miscommunicated to adoptive parents.
Kristy now volunteers with PAC UK and seeks to support other birth parents as well as affect change in the adoption system
As always if you’ve experience of adoption, fostering or special guardianship from any perspective personal or professional and would like share that on the podcast please get in touch through the Facebook page, the app formerly known as Twitter or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com
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Monday Oct 16, 2023
Monday Oct 16, 2023
Hello and welcome to this #NationalAdoptionWeek edition of conversations from the A&F network.
As it’s national adoption week and I’m pleased to welcome adoptive parent and adult adoptee Mimm onto the podcast. We chat through some of her experiences and perspectives that reflect the diversity of opinions that are present in what can be a challenging week.
As always if you’ve experience of adoption, fostering or special guardianship from any perspective personal or professional and would like share that on the podcast please get in touch through the Facebook page, the app formerly known as Twitter or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com
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Saturday Oct 14, 2023
Saturday Oct 14, 2023
In this episode we catch up after a long busy summer, there's lots to catch up on so we rattle through the issues. Here's the set list:
Dog
Face
Birthday
CVAA
Panels
National Adoption week
DfE Ofsted changes (the response to the consultation can be read here)
Judges (the report can be fund here)
Conference
You'll have to check on social media to see our little friends as well.
As always if you’ve experience of adoption, fostering or special guardianship from any perspective personal or professional and would like share that on the podcast please get in touch through the Facebook page, twitter or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com
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Tuesday Oct 10, 2023
Tuesday Oct 10, 2023
In this months podcast Vicky and Haley talk all thing parenting! What does it mean and how has it changed over the years.
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Saturday Oct 07, 2023
Saturday Oct 07, 2023
Hello and welcome to conversations from the A and F podcast.
In this episode I speak to Anthony about his experiences as a child entering the care system and his journey through foster care, residential care and semi independence. He’s really honest in terms of his responses to his lived experience and the help he received at various times. Anthony now campaigns for Revolving Door to improve youth justice and police responses to young people.
You can connect and find out more about Anthony here
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Friday Oct 06, 2023
Friday Oct 06, 2023
Our third Better Me Better Us Podcast focuses on social media. We discuss various perspectives from telling ‘white lies’ so our children have access to platforms with an age limit, to posting photos of our children without consent. From an Adoption and Fostering perspective we discuss the challenges for both parents and professionals when children search for birth family members online and think about how we prepare and manage the potential risk associated with this. The virtual world has many advantages, but as with many other scenarios that we teach our children about , how do we prepare our children to navigate scenarios through their screens?
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Saturday Sep 30, 2023
Saturday Sep 30, 2023
Hello and welcome to this special edition of the podcast from the A&F network.
On the 20th Sept we were invited the National Adoption Strategy Team's conference on openness in adoption in London. Unfortunately Scott couldn’t come so I attended on my own. It was planned initially to be just for adoption practitioners and exclusively in person. However, there was huge demand and consequently it was opened up to an online audience of practitioners, adoptees, adopters and birth families.
I was part of the round table event but was much enough to chat to a few of the contributors as well as the co Chairs Sarah Johal and Mike Hancock and squeeze an interview out of some of them. The audio is ok but you do get to hear some background noise, a sound check and kitchen sounds.
I hope it gives a flavour of the day and the topics discovered.
In order the contributors were, Mike, Tiegan, Sammy, Sarah and Clarissa all bringing their lived and professional experience to the debate.
As always if you’ve experience of adoption, fostering or special guardianship from any perspective personal or professional and would like share that on the podcast please get in touch through the Facebook page, twitter or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com
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Tuesday Sep 26, 2023
Tuesday Sep 26, 2023
Welcome to Episode 3 of ‘What’s da Craic’ with Maggie and Scott.
September marks World FASD Awareness Month, with a whole day dedicated to FASD Awareness Day on 9thSeptember. In this episode Maggie and Scott reflect on the day – around Ireland, as well as globally.
We reflect on social media posts, buildings being lit up red, the remarkable increase in Ireland of those willing to raise awareness for the FASD Community and more. It was certainly a very busy day, and we now consider what we will be doing this time next year.
Whilst “FASD – What’s da Craic?” is predominantly an Irish take on FASD, we try to make our language and experiences accessible to everyone. We have a mix of accents in there – something for all!
We welcome you to get in touch whether you have a question or would like to be a guest, you can search FASD Ireland across all social media platforms and DM us or email us: office@fasdireland.ie
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Friday Sep 22, 2023
Friday Sep 22, 2023
In this episode we speak to Andrew Walker from Banardos Ireland. This is a fascinating discussion around adoption and more specifically adoption support in the shadow of the Irish Government's adoption apology in 2018.
It's a fascinating conversation in terms of the support being offered as well as how adoption is viewed. On the 23rd Sept we'll be speaking to Dr Michael Lambert in terms of the evidence for a UK apology for adoption.
Here's a link to the Carrots story
As always if you’ve experience of adoption, fostering or special guardianship from any perspective personal or professional and would like share that on the podcast please get in touch through the Facebook page or twitter or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com
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