Conversation & discussion on contemporary Adoption & Fostering
Episodes
Saturday Mar 18, 2023
Saturday Mar 18, 2023
In this episode we asked for questions and topics as a guest had pulled out at the last moment. We mansplain our way through assessment of need, international adoption and unpack a whole load of social media thinking.
You can find the Regs we spoke of here
HR would like to apologise to Helmut from Austria
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 or twitter or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com
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Saturday Mar 11, 2023
Saturday Mar 11, 2023
One of our contributors at the annual Adoption & Fostering Podcast Conference was Angela Frazer-Wicks, birth parent and chair of trustees at the Family Rights Group as well as a key note speaker and campaigner. She shares her experience of maintaining links with her children after their adoption, the challenges of an inconsistent system and professional support as well as navigating the feelings of all parties to the adoption.
It is a fantastic insight to a world that can be opaque for professionals, adopters and adopted children and Angela was also able to answer some of the questions that attendees asked.
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 or twitter or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com
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Thursday Mar 09, 2023
Thursday Mar 09, 2023
We thought we'd do a #WednesdayWebcast on LGBTQ+ Fostering & Adoption Week and more.........
Who knows where that will all go! We talk, cost of living, Ukrainian children and Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children.
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Saturday Mar 04, 2023
Saturday Mar 04, 2023
In this episode, after a much needed catch up, we speak to Jay Vaughn MBE from Family Futures (starting at 19:17).
Jay is the CEO and co founder of Family Futures and asked to come onto the podcast to share news about their new venture into fostering. We chat about that as well as reflect on the wider issues that impact on children in this community including the ASF, therapy and helping children.
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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Saturday Feb 25, 2023
Saturday Feb 25, 2023
Hello and welcome to conversations from the A and F podcast.
In this episode we speak adult Adoptee Rodney, he shares his experience of adoption in New Zealand in the 1960’s and then moving to the UK in the 70’s. As a young adult he reconnected with his maternal family, a complicated and challenging experience that raised more questions than it answered.
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 or twitter or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com
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Saturday Feb 18, 2023
Saturday Feb 18, 2023
In this episode we're really happy to speak to Nick Burke a post adoption social worker. Nick speaks from a personal perspective across a range of issues that impact on adoption and social workers and it's fantastic to get a real live social worker on the podcast. We discuss a whole range of issues that are unique to adoption and post adoption support.
The discussed BASW report can be found here.
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Tuesday Feb 14, 2023
Tuesday Feb 14, 2023
Due to a lack of pre planning and a coherent podcast release schedule we thought we'd gloss over the fact that we didn't manage to release a shiny new episode and re release this one. Which was cracking BTW.
It’s LGBT history months so we thought we’d add our bit and Al has a chat with Scott and his husband Tris about their perspectives and experience of being amongst the cohort of adoptive same sex couples in the mid 2000s. They straddle a time before that was a possibility and we discuss their journey as well as some of their positive as well as less positive experiences being adoptive parents. We also chat about the implications for them as a family as they encounter and visit other cultures and countries and precautions they take to keep the children and themselves safe.
We start with a chat about the BT Halo advert, the language used and the following twitter storm and response from different parts of the adoption community.
Finally, we reveal that we’re chairing a RAA’s first year anniversary conference on the 4th April for Adoption East Midlands, until the end of Feb its open to families from that area, after that anyone can attend if there’s space. BOOK HERE The conference is going to cover a range of issues that are ever present including contact, developing children’s resilience and adopter resilience. There will also be discussion in relation to school support and peer mentors within the adoption community. Take a look here and if you’re free then we’d love to see you as well as the night before when we’re having the Adoption and Fostering Podcast Pub Quiz (details to follow).
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Saturday Feb 11, 2023
Saturday Feb 11, 2023
In this episode we speak to Victoria Ntizoglou and Claire Hardman social workers for the RAA Adoption Counts (starting 11:20) . As a service they've been innovative in their system approach to how they support children and adults in maintaining family links and connections pre and post adoption. They speak from their broad experience and offer fantastic insight to the issues that they navigate in what is essential work for a progressive adoption service. They were also knowledgeable across the adoption system and great guests.
We also reflect on the ongoing questions around the APPGs and consider the role of AUK and Home for Good in funding the Adoption and Permanence APPG. However, in the interim the question we asked on twitter has been answered here.
Adoption Counts is the Regional Adoption Agency covering the adoption services of five Local Authorities: Cheshire East Council, Manchester City Council, Salford City Council, Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council and Trafford Council.
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 or twitter or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com
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Monday Feb 06, 2023
Monday Feb 06, 2023
Hello and welcome to this hastily drawn together podcast on the Gov's response to the Care Review. We try to give a brief outline of the key 'pillars' of the review and reflect on the responses from across the sector.
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 or twitter or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com
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Saturday Feb 04, 2023
Saturday Feb 04, 2023
Hello and welcome to conversations from the A&F podcast. We are opening up our conversations to include anyone connected to the world of caring parenting or working with children who have experienced adversity or have complex needs.
In this episode we speak to kinship carer Shanayd, she shares her story of becoming a kinship carer to her niece, the legal process, the impact on her family and the challenges of accessing support. Shanayd now campaigns for better support and works to support and advocate for kinship carers locally and nationally and in the podcast she shares the work that she does.
If you’ve a perspective or have experience that you’d like to share in this space please get in touch through the Facebook or twitter page or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com
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