Conversation & discussion on contemporary Adoption & Fostering
Episodes
Thursday Feb 04, 2021
Thursday Feb 04, 2021
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Saturday Jan 30, 2021
Saturday Jan 30, 2021
We chat to Hugh Thornbery the Chair of Trustees of Become, consultant to the ASLB and former CEO of Adoption UK. Hugh has been involved in the adoption sector for several years and share with us the genesis of the current policy and political position on adoption as well as his reflections from his time as the CEO of Adoption UK and working with the previous chair of the ASGLB. He bring insight and perspective to the challenges that the sector faces as well as offering some thought on the recently announced care review, it's chair and the perspectives from those with care experience.
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Thursday Jan 28, 2021
Thursday Jan 28, 2021
This week we chat to Jane Pickthall, virtual school head, and she reflects on the learning and challenges that many young people face who are also fostered and previously looked after. Jane discussed the work that she does to ensure that school is a safe environment for children and how she has built a multidisciplinary team within her virtual school staff team to meet the needs of the children under her care.
Jane is passionate and we touch on a range of issues including the benefits of lockdown for some young people and the impact on results, post 16 education for children and how the Virtual School should be a champion for children.
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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
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
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.
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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
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
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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
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.
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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.
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