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Sep 30, 2024

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.

May 30, 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

Mar 2, 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...

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...

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