The Adoption and Fostering Podcast
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Holidays Special - Scott and Al Talk Family Holidays
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04/22/23 • 84 min
Without doubt taking children with additional needs and complex histories on holiday is a minefield of challenges and we thought we'd come up with some insight and share a few stories.
We come up, in a surprising moment of organisation and planning, with our top ten tips for travel and cover a few other issues in terms of some of the difficulties that families can face.
To be clear, at the end of our chat there is another 'Vomit Story' and it's bleak, so you were warned!
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 [email protected]
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Better Me Better Us: Ep13 - Big events for little people
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06/11/24 • 32 min
Hello and welcome to this episode of the Better Me Better Us Podcast with Vicki and Hayley.
Happy Pride Month!!
In this 13th episode we talk about big events for little people. As usual we go up, down and all around with the topic covering events such as exams, endings (including the end of the school term), explaining big stories and how within that, us big people can help ourselves to help our young people.
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Episode 143 - Becky Brooks and the Adoption Barometer
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08/13/22 • 60 min
In this episode we are more than happy to have Becky back onto the podcast. As you'll hear Becky has an encyclopaedic knowledge of AUK's 2022 Adoption Barometer and she unpicks some of the data and we have a good natter.
As you'd expect we do occasionally get drawn into a broad range of issues including decorating children's bedrooms, women's football and the joy of pies.
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 [email protected]
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Podcast #NAW Special - An Interview with Pam Hodgkins
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10/14/21 • 82 min
As it's #NationalAdoptionWeek next week so we thought we'd speak to Pam Hodgkins, adoptee, retired social worker, founder of NORCAP and MBE. Pam has a wealth of lived and professional experience to share and she kindly did that with us.
Pam shares her personal experiences of adoption and growing up in the 50s and 60s as an adoptee, she then shares her experience of searching for her birth parents and how that lead ultimately to the formation of NORCAP. We chat through the inconsistencies, and injustices, in the legislation and how they impact adopted people. Pam campaigned effectively for change but has returned from retirement to carry the banner again for adopted people. She shares her insightful views on the current campaign for an apology and her hopes that it will open a door to support for the older adoptees and their birth parent who are running out of time.
It's a long podcast so get a brew and a comfy chair, we'd hoped to release it as a prerecorded webcast (get us!) but our technology wasn't quite up to it.
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 [email protected]
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Podcast Special - Dr Karen Treisman
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10/09/21 • 52 min
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 [email protected]
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Adoption Conversations - Sammy
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10/18/22 • 31 min
It's National Adoption Week so we thought we'd re -elease a few voices from the adoption community for new listeners to hear and perhaps remind ourselves of the complexity and nuance that contemporary adoption navigates.
In this podcast we speak birth mum Sammy, she shares her experience of having her children removed, court processes and accessing support once they have gone.
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 [email protected]
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Episode 196 - Scott and Al, #CPV on the telly and Adoption Improvements
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10/05/24 • 57 min
Hello and welcome to this episode of the podcast. We catch up with some news and reflect on the recent BBC programme 'I am not ok' looking at parents caring for children with violent and agressive behaviour. You can view it here in the UK. We also talk about the recent article in CYPNow by Mark Owers considering the changes that need to be brought in for Adoption. You can view that here.
In the chat we talk about a domestic homicide review and you can read that here. Of course we advise caution and note the this is highly unusual crime and not to stress over it. Get in touch via the email below if you're worried.
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, the app formerly known as Twitter or email us at [email protected]
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Episode 142 - An interview with Adoptee Rights Campaigner Liz Harvie
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08/06/22 • 66 min
In this episode we speak to Liz Harvie adopted adult and adoptee rights campaigner. We'd been planning to speak to Liz for quite a while and the interview conincided with the release of the House of Commons & House of Lords Joint Committee on Human Rights -The Violation of Family Life: Adoption of Children of Unmarried Women 1949–1976 report. Liz was generous with her time and story shared some of her own experience and the impact of being adopted and reunion on her, liz spoke across a broad range of issues including the report and we're sure you'll agree she was a great guest.
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 [email protected]
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Adoption Conversation - Ryan, Late Discovery Adoptee
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07/30/22 • 50 min
Hello and welcome to conversations from the adoption and fostering podcast.
In this episode Scott spoke to late discovery, transracial and translation adoptee Ryan, he shares his complicated and challenging experience of finding out he was adopted at 18 years old.
Ryan talks about living his shame and avoiding dealing with his adoption until the last few years and his journey looking for support as an adult. Ryan is open an honest in discussing the complexities of his situation and the lack of information he has of his biological family from Morocco.
You can see Ryan's YouTube video here
https://youtu.be/4C-LNcmxdFk
And his Written story here https://peshy37.wordpress.com/2021/02/18/my-story/
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 [email protected]
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Adoption Conversations - Sarah
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11/06/21 • 20 min
In this episode we speak to birth parent Sarah, she shares her experience of having children removed for adoption as well as going on to have further children that remain in her care. Sarah is open and honest in relation to the complexity of maintaining relationships and living with social care involvement.
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 [email protected]
Listen/subscribe on iTunes here
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FAQ
How many episodes does The Adoption and Fostering Podcast have?
The Adoption and Fostering Podcast currently has 248 episodes available.
What topics does The Adoption and Fostering Podcast cover?
The podcast is about Parenting, Kids & Family and Podcasts.
What is the most popular episode on The Adoption and Fostering Podcast?
The episode title 'Holidays Special - Scott and Al Talk Family Holidays' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on The Adoption and Fostering Podcast?
The average episode length on The Adoption and Fostering Podcast is 49 minutes.
How often are episodes of The Adoption and Fostering Podcast released?
Episodes of The Adoption and Fostering Podcast are typically released every 4 days, 17 hours.
When was the first episode of The Adoption and Fostering Podcast?
The first episode of The Adoption and Fostering Podcast was released on Aug 18, 2021.
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