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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 25, 2017
Today is TV & Media day!
Founder member and chair of POTATO is to appear on the Victoria Derbyshire BBC2 programme. Together with fellow experienced adoptive...
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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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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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