The Adoption and Fostering Podcast

Feb 07 2025 120 ep. 47 mins 190

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Episode 203.5 Becky Brooks and the Adoption Barometer

Feb 07 2025 68 mins

Hello and Welcome to this Episode, It's always a pleasure to have Adoption UK's Becky Brooks onto the podcast. Becky is an adoptive parent, former foster care, author and self confessed policy and statistics Nerd. Adoption UK's Adoption Barometer is open til the 17th Feb and is a tool that informs policy makers and gives real data to the lived experience of adoptees and adopters'

Conversations - Solo Adoptive Parent Ramsey

Jan 31 2025 67 mins

Hello and welcome to conversations from the A&F podcast. In this episode I speak to solo adopter Ramsey. He shares his journey to adoption and the experience of travelling through it on his own. 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 tou

Episode 203 - Artificial Intelligence and Support + A Patch Update

Jan 24 2025 72 mins

Hello and Welcome to this Episode, we jump on the AI bandwagon and dig into what we think about the idea of support to families being provided by A.I. It is an interesting chat and we give on A.I. model a try with surprising results. We also unpack the comments we got through our FB page. Fiona Wells joins us for the whole conversation, share's her perspective and then gives us an

Conversations - Adoptive Parent Augusto

Jan 17 2025 30 mins

Hello and welcome to conversations from the A&F Network. In this episode I speak to Augusto, with his wife they adopted twins. He reflects on the challenges of early permanence and transracial adoption. 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

Better Me Better Us Episode 20 - Goals

Jan 13 2025 26 mins

This month, we focus on goals. Do you set goals? If so, are they truly for you, or are they shaped by what society expects? For fostered and adopted children, the ultimate goal often revolves around finding a permanent family. But how much are they included in shaping this goal? Are their voices heard in the process? Join us in the conversation as we explore the importance of real

Episode 202 - Tris & Paula

Jan 10 2025 60 mins

Hello and welcome to this episode A&F podcast our traditional new year check in with spouses Tris and Paula. 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, BlueSky or email us at [email protected] Listen/s

Episode 201 - Sarah Anderson from Foster Wiki talks allegations.

Jan 03 2025 59 mins

Hello and welcome to the first episode of 2025! We recorded this episode with Sarah in the run up to Christmas so we're all festive and looking ahead and behind in our references. We invited Sarah on to share the findings of FosterWiki's 2024 Independent Allegations Report. We have a really interesting chat about its contents as well as sharing personal and professional experience

Episode 180 -Therapeutic Parenting. What is it?

Dec 27 2024 57 mins

Merry Christmas! As we take a break over the holiday we re release what was the most listened to podcast of 2024. thank you all for listening! Hello and welcome to the Adoption and Fostering podcasting, this week we explore Therapeutic Parenting and Good Enough Parenting. Terms that we often throw around and presume that we understand but we ask what it actually is, is there a def

Episode 200 - Christmas Special and 200th Episode Celebration

Dec 20 2024 91 mins

Hello and welcome to episode 200 from the A&F Network and our 2024 Christmas special. We've shipped in the wonderful Mark Owers to guest host a proper retrospective podcast unpicking a whole raft of episodes, anecdotes and think about why we started the podcast and looked at the highlights. Mark weaves in Christmas questions and we think about what the future holds. We have a

Safeguarding in Adoption Conference - Al Coates

Dec 13 2024 27 mins

Hello and welcome to a slightly unusual series of episodes of the A&F podcast. In September I joined Fiona wells from PATCH, Friend of the show Vicki McKeown and strategic lead for Adoption England Sarah Johal to speak at the Safeguarding in Adoption online conference. With over 500 tickets requested we were overwhelmed with the interest in this subject that impacts so many fam