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The Potato Group Publishes Research Report
PRESS RELEASE Far, far beyond the Adoption Order by The POTATO Group For release 30th June 2025 Download this press release. Download our...
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Potato Group Set to Publish Research
In May 2024, The Potato Group, in partnership with The Belay Foundation, hosted a unique conference for professionals , presenting the...
Apr 21


Response to Changes to The Adoption & Special Guardiandship Support Fund (ASGSF)
The Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF) is a vital source of therapeutic support for some of our most vulnerable...
Apr 19


The Potato Group Presents to Adoption Lancashire & Blackpool
In September, members of The Potato Group were invited to present to Adoption Lancashire & Blackpool during their annual training day.
Oct 1, 2024


Conference: Far, Far Beyond the Adoption Order: Lessons from Lives Impacted by Trauma
This month, professionals joined The Potato Group for our first-ever conference. Far, Far Beyond the Adoption Order: Lessons from Lives Impa
May 31, 2024


Potato Group Conference
The Potato Group is currently planning a ground-breaking conference for professionals. In May 2024, The Potato Group, in partnership with...
Mar 2, 2024


Criminal Injury Compensation Authority
The Criminal Injury Compensation Authority (CICA) is the government body that makes awards to innocent victims of violent crimes. Some...
Apr 18, 2023


Ground Breaking Study for Adoptive and Special Guardian Families
This brand-new ground-breaking study is about the lives of teenagers and young adults in adoptive and Special Guardianship families. This...
Mar 1, 2023


Invisible Children
The "invisible children". The children who haven't returned to school since the pandemic. This article has been reproduced by kind...
Feb 24, 2023


Relationship Struggles
Sometimes putting 'real life' into words can be powerful. Here, one of our members is describing relationship struggles with her young...
Aug 1, 2022


Why Won't They Just Listen?
The Safe and Sound Protocol is a listening programme based on Dr. Stephen Porges' Theory.
May 18, 2022


ASF 2022 Support Criteria
Here it is at last – ASF 22 criteria published today. FUNDING ELIGIBILITY To be eligible for funding, local authorities and RAAs must...
Apr 1, 2022


Child to Parent Abuse – UK National Study Day
A Potato member's view given as a Presentation to a UK national study day on child-to-parent abuse on 15 November 2021. Child to parent...
Nov 17, 2021


Strengthening Families – All-Party Parliamentary Group for Adoption & Permanence
The Care Review, The Spending Review - Is any of it enough? The long awaited APPGAP report relating to adoption and permanence has now...
Oct 27, 2021


Mindfulness as an antidote to stress
Reproduced by kind permission of Simone Harch who runs hiddenvictims.co.uk Caring for a child who has experienced early life adversity...
Oct 25, 2021


Trauma damage to the brain
After a difficult week one of our members , Louise , wrote this: – Just going to leave this here because I know many of you are, or have...
May 12, 2021


I’m Tired…
Potato Members have recently been attending a variety of online events talking about CPV (Child to Parent Violence), Attachment and The...
Apr 24, 2021


Trauma Inspired Poetry
There are some of our members who are not only adopters but also Special Guardians. The Potato Group has been given permission to publish...
Feb 24, 2021


Regulation and the Adoptive Parent
A very interesting blog piece around regulation. We have been kindly been given permission to post it here. If you would like to visit...
Feb 1, 2021


How Can A Potato Make A Difference?
Being an adopter faced with the complexity and difficulties of parenting our tats through the teenage years and beyond, we are held back...
Jan 17, 2021


Don’t judge until you’ve walked a mile in my shoes
One of our members recently had a conversation with a friend which left her struggling. “My son is making some difficult choices this...
Jan 6, 2021
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