The Adoption and Fostering Podcast

Hello and welcome to the AandF podcast. 

This is a different kind of episode, as it’s a recording of peer support group sessions that I host with Walking with Families. We are a community of adoptive parents who are living with challenging behaviour and we had Neurodiversity Coaching Psychologist Anna Webster join us. She shares her experience and insight to parenting a child with a diagnosis of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and and the complication of neurodiversity and the Neurowise Programme on Therapeutic Caregiving for FASD.

If you want to find out more about Walking with Families you can do that here or join the FB group here. 

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As always if you’ve experience of adoption, fostering or special guardianship from any perspective personal or professional and would like share that on the podcast please get in touch through the Facebook page, BlueSky or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com

We did 10 years and are still talking, in lots of senses.

In this episode we start with an attempt at role play as we unpack Adoption Week's two problems, a crisis in recruitment and a crisis in support. Scott wasn't too keen on that but we look at where we came from and how we got here. 

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Hello and welcome to conversations from the AandF podcast. 

This is a slightly different episode  I speak to Professor of Social Work Adam McCormick from St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas. 

We chat about Social work, social workers, aspects of the foster care system and the nature of the system in the state. We also consider the motivations of social workers to join the profession and see how their life experiences impact on them and their work. We also chat about the challenges faced by LGBTQ young people in foster care and the systemic hostility they face. 

You can see more of Adam here. 

As always if you’ve experience of adoption, fostering or special guardianship from any perspective personal or professional and would like share that on the podcast please get in touch through the Facebook page, BlueSky or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com

We asked Michelle back on to give us a 'state of the nation' report on Kinship care. The Government are developing and moving policy in this area and it's seen changes and promises of change but how is it really for kinship carers and what are the ongoing challenges. 

Michelle did come on the podcast in 2022 (Al was wrong) and we reflect on some of the changes since then and more besides. 

As always, if you’ve experience of adoption, fostering or special guardianship from any perspective personal or professional and would like share that on the podcast please get in touch through the Facebook page, BlueSky or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com

This month we explore A.I. : the benefits, the pitfalls, and its role in social work assessments and recordings. Children who have experienced trauma heal through safe, attuned relationships, and no tool can replace human connection.
We also talk about learning alongside our children in a fast-changing digital world, building the trust and openness that help keep them safe.

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