The Adoption and Fostering Podcast

This week Andrew Christie, the new head of the Adoption Leadership Board, discussed the funtion of the board, and its aims and objectives. 

If you want to contact him and share your thoughts or views he kindly gave the following email address 

Gina.DENNETT@education.gov.uk

As usual there's a little adoption, and non adoption, chat, banter and thought from Scott Casson Rennie and me and we discuss the survey on Child Parent Violence, which can be found here

http://www.alcoates.co.uk/2016/11/child-on-parent-violence-survey_24.html

If you want any further information you can contact me through Misadventures of an Adoptive Dad blog here

alcoates.co.uk 

A conversation with Brid Featherstone in about the ongoing Adoption Enquiry and a catch up with Scott Cassion-Rennie and a reflection on some of the issues raised. As always a bit of banter and a little bit of thought provoking. 

The review runs through til May 2017 and completed surveys will still be accepted after the closing date

https://www.basw.co.uk/adoption-enquiry/

You can find more exciting and interesting stuff here

alcoates.co.uk

This is an interview with Helen specifically looking at the issue of Child on Parent Violence (CPV). Questions and topics were drawn from discussions on Twitter and considered the impact on families and the professional response. 

If you want further information Helen can be contacted at www.holesinthewall.co.uk or through Twitter @helenbonnick

This is the second part of an interview with Scott and we discuss LGBT adoption, Child Parent Violence and working in adoption. I also recap on a few things I've been up to this National Adoption Week.

Welcome to the first podcast. In this episode I have a conversation with Scott we stray into topics such as the latest adoption figures and the benefits of Adoption Panels. We talked for so long that we had to split the podcast.