Conversation & discussion on contemporary Adoption & Fostering
Episodes
Saturday Oct 09, 2021
Saturday Oct 09, 2021
We're really pleased to be speaking to Dr Karen Treisman this week. We've wanted to speak to Karen for a long time and it was a great opportunity to cover a whole range of issues and topics that are pertinent to adoption, fostering and kinship care. Karen discusses the impact of the pandemic on children and families as well as considering different therapeutic approaches with children and much more.
As always it's difficult topics but undertaken with humour, that doesn't diminish how seriously we take the subject.
You can see Karen's website here.
We hope you find it interesting and as always if you’ve experience of adoption, Fostering or special guardianship from any perspective and would like share that on the podcast please get in touch through the Facebook or twitter page or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com
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Thursday Oct 07, 2021
Thursday Oct 07, 2021
It's kinship care week so we asked Dr Paul Shuttleworth to come onto the #WednedsayWebcast to discuss his work and the subject of his research. Though Paul works for a range of organisations he's focusing on his Thesis: What matters to children living in kinship care: "another way of being a normal family"
You can read it here
We cover a lot of ground and it's full of the usual banter and humour but the discussion raises interesting conversations around the hierarchy of care, family culture, death, adversity and the nature of kinship care.
As always if you’ve experience of adoption, Fostering or special guardianship from any perspective and would like share that on the podcast please get in touch through the Facebook or twitter page or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com
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Saturday Oct 02, 2021
Saturday Oct 02, 2021
In this episode we unpick all things matching as well as cover a few current issues.
Matching can be one of the most stressful experiences for prospective adopters. With social workers stepping back after the busyness of stage 1 and 2, adopters are often frustrated by the process of matching and downhearted by the lack of progress through the RAA and Linkmaker. How do you get support or complain if there’s a problem? Knowing the number of children waiting for adoption is decreasing and the recruitment of adopters continues meaning there’s more adopters waiting than ever is hard.
We look at all of this and more.
As always if you’ve experience of adoption, Fostering or special guardianship from any perspective and would like share that on the podcast please get in touch through the Facebook or twitter page or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com
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Thursday Sep 30, 2021
Thursday Sep 30, 2021
In this Wednesday Webcast we catch up with Carol Hunter and Aliy Brown from the FASD Hub Scotland to round up what has been a busy #FASD Awareness month.
Aliy updates us on the work of the Hub as well as reflects on the progress that has been made in relation to the general awareness both in the general public but as well as within services. Carol is open and honest both in relation to her own diagnosis and lived experience and the work that she does in education, raising awareness and supporting parents and children who have been impacted by alcohol exposure before birth.
You can access the Hub here as well the resources that they have.
As always if you’ve experience of adoption, Fostering or special guardianship from any perspective and would like share that on the podcast please get in touch through the Facebook or twitter page or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com
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Saturday Sep 25, 2021
Saturday Sep 25, 2021
Hello and welcome to conversations from the adoption and fostering podcast.
In this podcast we spoke to Becky a parent of two biological and one adoptive children. Becky shares their story of an unsuccessful adoption assessment that led to her and her husband having to repeat the process with a voluntary adoption agency. They were approved and half way through introductions the country went into the first lockdown.
This is an honest conversation and Becky describes some difficult experiences that they faced as a family on their adoption journey. Becky is also a social worker and shares her perspective on social work practice from that experience.
We hope you find it interesting and as always if you’ve experience of adoption, Fostering or special guardianship from any perspective and would like share that on the podcast please get in touch through the Facebook or twitter page or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com
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Thursday Sep 23, 2021
Thursday Sep 23, 2021
In this conversation we speak to Lynne who has experienced the loss of her children through adoption as well as foster care. Lynne is searingly honest in relation to her experiences and story and consequently we advise caution as you listen. It's a profound interview as well as a collection of other recordings that Lynne has done for other organisations in relation to some of her experiences.
We hope you find it thought provoking and as always if you’ve experience of adoption, Fostering or special guardianship from any perspective and would like share that on the podcast please get in touch through the Facebook or twitter page
If you’ve a story of care or adoption and would like to share your perspective or experience then please do direct message us at our twitter feed here, our facebook page here or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com
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Saturday Sep 18, 2021
Saturday Sep 18, 2021
Be warned, there's swearing in the worst possible way in this episode, if it's not for you then steer clear. Seriously, we quote some pretty shocking stuff as well as some comical examples but you listen at your own peril.
We start with a round up of some of the latest goings on, the new report form the The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Adoption and Permanence and the comings and goings of ministerial changes are all discussed. Then we get to the main event all prompted by the report from the National Institute for Health Research on adoption children and PTSD. Well, as Scott would say, 'No S**T Sherlock'. This led us into a very frank discussion in relation to swearing. We know that not all adopted or fostered children swear but we talk about some of our challenging family experiences as well as some of the views and anecdotes shared by twitter with us.
This episode is not for everyone and we quote some examples that are beyond the pale so if it's not for you then don't listen. You've been warned.
As always if you’ve experience of adoption, Fostering or special guardianship from any perspective and would like share that on the podcast please get in touch through the Facebook or twitter page or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com
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Thursday Sep 16, 2021
Thursday Sep 16, 2021
In this episode we acknowledge that September is FASD awareness months and we speak to Jo Garofolo the founder of Voice in a Million and she tell us about the upcoming documentary she has produced looking specifically at FASD The Hidden Disability which will be streaming on September the 9th here on VIMTV .
We chat about Jo's experience of becoming a parent though adoption as well as the work that she achieves through Voice in a Million. As always there's plenty of chat and banter.
As always if you’ve experience of adoption, Fostering or special guardianship from any perspective and would like share that on the podcast please get in touch through the Facebook or twitter page or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com
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For clarification 'Male Grooming' was the phrase that Al was looking for in the intro and outro.
Saturday Aug 28, 2021
Saturday Aug 28, 2021
In this episode we speak to Professor Julie Selwyn academic, social worker and author of several key academic studies and reports including the seminal Beyond the Adoption Order.
Julie shares her experience as a professional and how that influenced her later academic research as well as the impact of what is now seen as a seminal report for the adoption community 'Beyond the Adoption Order'. We chat about the lead up to the report, it's impact and legacy as well as considering adoption 6 years on from that report and where we're at now.
Please note, after we recorded and Julie checked the stats she recalled from memory during the interview and asked that this correction was popped in:
"I was correct with 50% of 4-7yrs don't know why they're in care and it is 46% of 8-10yrs, but I think I said a third for the 11-17yrs group when it is 22%"
We really enjoyed chatting to Julie and her depth of knowledge and insight and hope you did too. If you like the podcast we'd really appreciate a review on iTunes as it helps get more people listening to us. If you're up for that then pop here and it will only take a minute.
Also, while you're here you could pop along here to The No Borders podcast and listen to some helpful stuff re supporting resilience training.
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Wednesday Aug 25, 2021
Wednesday Aug 25, 2021
In this episode of Adoption Conversations we speak to adopter Peggy and birth parent Laura in relation to their experience of creating an open an ongoing relationship to best support the needs of the two children they are parents to. Their full story can be heard on another podcast, Two Good Mums, so here we open up some of the less talked about challenges in what is a really honest and open conversation.
You can find their social media links here.
We hope you find it enlightening and as always if you’ve experience of adoption, Fostering or special guardianship from any perspective and would like share that on the podcast please get in touch through the Facebook or twitter page
If you’ve a story of care or adoption and would like to share your perspective or experience then please do direct message us at our twitter feed here, our facebook page here or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com
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