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Feb 28, 2018
CPV & adoption in crisis, on the TV.
Talking about how Potato members often face crisis with their traumatised adopted young people and the professionals lack capacity to...
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Feb 27, 2018
Moving on up, moving on out!
Yes, now you’ve got that 90s classic zipping through your head- have a read of this weeks excellent blog. Listen here: Moving on up,...
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Sep 15, 2017
Children’s Society initiative
Our Chairperson has been in touch with the Childrens Society and because we have a lot of common ground we felt you all might like to get...
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Mar 6, 2016
Sally Donovan’s Article
It’s Sunday and the roar of Sally Donovan has begun to die down. She did a great article in this weeks “Community Care” and there has...
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Aug 12, 2015
Bbqs, holidays and first on the list.
It is time for the seasonal blog and its BBQ weather. Yes…. British weather so darting indoors missing the showers, hoping the gateau...
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May 19, 2015
APV when planets collide
We live on planet adoption. Our lives are so very distinct to other parents. We applaud when our child cries… because it's rare that...
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Sep 19, 2014
Welcome to the world of LEGGIT & SCARPER…
When life in with your teen isn’t tough enough they start a whole new range of activities! One that comes up a lot within our community...
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May 31, 2014
Therapeutic reparenting adopted teens
OK readers! I have 2 adopted teenagers who were at infants school when they came to me. Now, wow 19 and 16, how did that happen? Now we...
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May 21, 2014
Welcome to all parents of teens (and post teens) adopted in the UK
We are a UK based group of parents who have adopted our children from the looked after system in the past 20+ years. All of our teenagers...
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