Potato Group Conference
The Potato Group is currently planning a ground-breaking conference for professionals. In May 2024, The Potato Group, in partnership with...
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Articles
Apr 18, 2023
Criminal Injury Compensation Authority
The Criminal Injury Compensation Authority (CICA) is the government body that makes awards to innocent victims of violent crimes. Some...
Mar 1, 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...
Feb 24, 2023
Invisible Children
The "invisible children". The children who haven't returned to school since the pandemic. This article has been reproduced by kind...
Aug 1, 2022
Relationship Struggles
Sometimes putting 'real life' into words can be powerful. Here, one of our members is describing relationship struggles with her young...
May 18, 2022
Why Won't They Just Listen?
The Safe and Sound Protocol is a listening programme based on Dr. Stephen Porges' Theory.
Apr 1, 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...
Nov 17, 2021
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...
Oct 27, 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 25, 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...
May 12, 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...
Apr 24, 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...
Feb 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 1, 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...
Jan 17, 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 6, 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...
Nov 9, 2020
Adoptive Parent’s Poem
This moving piece of poetry was written by a member. It clearly shows the struggle and heartbreak that many adoptive parents experience,...
Oct 26, 2020
What Free School Meals Meant to Me
This is the letter that the adult adopted daughter of one of our members wrote to her MP. It’s a powerful reminder of just how important...
Oct 24, 2020
Reflections on National Adoption Week
Our first contribution, written powerfully from the heart, comes from a member who is tirelessly advocating for her adopted son 20 years...
Jul 8, 2019
POTATO Arts Day (2019)
Every year, we have a couple of days break from looking after our traumatised adopted young people. In the team of POTATO we have some...
Jun 21, 2019
Special Guardians and Adopters Together
Whilst Potato is a support group, SG&AT are a campaigning group. It’s members ‘come together to think about what needs to change and...
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