Episodes
Saturday Jan 23, 2021
Adoption Conversations: Charlotte and Kerrie
Saturday Jan 23, 2021
Saturday Jan 23, 2021
Welcome to conversations from the Adoption & Fostering podcast
In this conversation Scott has a really interesting discussion with Birth Mum Charlotte and Adoptive Mum Kerrie. It is a unique story, and one that left him speechless.
Charlotte and Kerrie have established a relationship in the hope of it benefitting their son, and what began as a facebook message has now developed into something clearly quite special for everyone.
Whilst still early days for everyone, Kerrie felt it right that Charlotte should always be involved in their sons life, and with support on both sides they have embarked on a more open adoption.
Both Mums were a joy to talk to, and I don’t mind admitting to some eye leakage from myself during the conversation. It would spoil it for you to say much more before you listen…
It’s their story and reflects their views and experiences and If you’d like to share your story please get in touch through the Facebook page or twitter page or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com
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Thursday Jan 21, 2021
#WednesdayWebcast - A Chat with Helen Townsend from Beacon House
Thursday Jan 21, 2021
Thursday Jan 21, 2021
This week we speak to Helen Townsend from Beacon House, she comes on to share the work that they do as well as point us to the broad range of free resources that they create for families that live with vulnerable children that have experienced trauma, loss and separation. Helen also discusses how to help families caught up in lockdown challenges and struggling to meet the needs of families as well as care for vulnerable children. Additionally, she has made some resources to go with her chat and they can be found here.
Helen also work for Inner World Works and they can be found here.
In many ways Al didn't quite reach his usual standards this week, both in paying attention and WiFi stability, and consequently will be sat in the naughty corner til the next episode.
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Saturday Jan 16, 2021
Episode 111 - An interview with Krish Kandiah the new Chair of the ASGLB
Saturday Jan 16, 2021
Saturday Jan 16, 2021
In this week's episode we have an exclusive chat with the Adoption and Special Guardianship Board's new Chair Krish Kandiah (@KrishK). It's his first interview since coming into the role and we put to him as many of the questions that had been sent to us as time would allow. We asked specific questions in relation to his experience as well as his views and hopes on a range of issues that are pertinent to his role and matter to the community. We'd love your feedback and to know what you think, we liked the interview and are hopeful for his tenure but, like in all things, we'll have to see what happens.
As always, thanks for listening and if you'd like to email us with comments or suggestions the you can at AandFpodcast@gmail.com
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Thursday Jan 14, 2021
Wednesday Webcast - We talk Education with School Head Stuart Guest
Thursday Jan 14, 2021
Thursday Jan 14, 2021
We've started up the #WednsedayWebcast again as we're all at home bored. We thought we'd start with Stuart(@stuart_guest) Headteacher and adoptive parent as he can offer some insights into the challenges of maintaining education both at home and school. We chat about a broad range of different challenges that many families are facing as well as offering some insights to the impact on children and what the long term implication of remote learning may be.
Stuart also shares his top five tips for remote learning that he has come up with that you can also find on his blog here.
It is a fantastic chat with a few audio blips and lots of questions from live viewers that Stuart tries to answer.
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Saturday Jan 09, 2021
Adoption Conversations: Earl
Saturday Jan 09, 2021
Saturday Jan 09, 2021
Hello and welcome to conversations from the adoption and fostering podcast.
Earl and his wife are US citizens living in the UK and in this episode they share their story of their unconventional route to adoption in the UK.
Earl has also written an account of their journey "Our Road to Adoption: The Story of our Family and the Great Family of God"and you can find it here.
It’s their story and reflects their views and experiences and If you’d like to share your story please get in touch through the Facebook page or twitter page or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com
You can also listen to the podcast:
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Music by
Together, We Can Make It by Neutrin05 | https://soundcloud.com/neutrin05
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Saturday Jan 02, 2021
Episode 110 - Relationships and adoption
Saturday Jan 02, 2021
Saturday Jan 02, 2021
Happy New Year! In this Episode we take a leap of faith and Scott and Al invite our better halves onto the podcast. We look at the impact of parenting on relationships. With us considering how we manage stress differently, the challenge of working with other professional and the unexpected twists and turns of adoptive parenting. It is a candid episode as we discuss our personal experiences and open up more than we’ve done before! Surprisingly, we’re all still talking.
As always, thanks for listening and if you'd like to email us with comments or suggestions the you can at AandFpodcast@gmail.com
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Saturday Dec 26, 2020
2020 Christmas Special with Becky Brooks
Saturday Dec 26, 2020
Saturday Dec 26, 2020
In this, our fifth Christmas special, we planned to unwrap the festive season with a light hearted banter filled episode on the joys of fostering and adoption in the Christmas season. However, in what can only be described as a flurry of controversy we get drawn into the leaked/botched ASF announcement (huzzah, good news!) as well as Becky's views on the Children's Commissioner. We then limp through a feeble attempt at a quiz and end in a glorious 'alternative adoption Queen's speech' from a fabulous surprise guest.
Generally all good though Beck does sound as though she's underwater at points that was either tech problems or egg nog.
As always, thanks for listening and if you'd like to email us with comments or suggestions the you can at AandFpodcast@gmail.com
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Saturday Dec 19, 2020
Adoption Conversations: Angela
Saturday Dec 19, 2020
Saturday Dec 19, 2020
Hello and welcome to conversations from the adoption and fostering podcast. In this episode Angela shares her story shares her story of losing two children to adoption. It a difficult story to listen to and raises challenging issues from a range of perspectives. As such we advise caution before listening, you can get in touch and see further developments in her story by following her on twitter here.
It’s her story and reflects her views and experiences and if you’d like to share your story please get in touch through the Facebook page or twitter page or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com
You can also listen to the podcast:
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Music by
Together, We Can Make It by Neutrin05 | https://soundcloud.com/neutrin05
Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
Thursday Dec 17, 2020
#WednesdayWebcast - News Update
Thursday Dec 17, 2020
Thursday Dec 17, 2020
In what is a UK and England centric #WednesdayWebcast we catch up on what has been a busy news week, as short and to the point podcast.
We chat about the new appointee to the Adoption & Special Guardianship Leadership Board and consider the challenges set before them. Also, we consider the lack of news in relation to the continuation of the Adoption Support Fund and who will be leading the promised Care Review and who should be leading it.
Finally, we consider the controversy around physical chastisement and the proposed Children's Commissioner.
Al was away from home so his voice is through some low quality earbuds hence the quality differential.
As always, thanks for listening and if you'd like to email us with comments or suggestions the you can at AandFpodcast@gmail.com
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Saturday Dec 12, 2020
Episode 109 - Interview with Author and Physiotherapist Sarah Lloyd
Saturday Dec 12, 2020
Saturday Dec 12, 2020
In this episode we chat to Sarah Lloyd who has developed the Buss model of physiotherapy for children who experienced early adversity. She brings with her Parents Ruth Coppin and Vicky Holland and they share their experience of utilising the model and the benefits that it brought to their children. There's a link to her book here.
It's a great interview and really helpful to rethink the impact of early adversity and how to help restore children. We also chat about the latest news and indulge in a little light banter after the main interview.
As always, thanks for listening and if you'd like to email us with comments or suggestions the you can at AandFpodcast@gmail.com
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