Post-Adoption Support in Crisis: Families Speak Out
If you are at all interested in Adoption and LinkedIn, you will already be aware of Claire Agius, a PhD…
Discussion
The importance of support and understanding for adoptive families
‘Adoption is in crisis’ was the headline of one of our recent guest blogposts, but are things getting better? Blogs…
CPV: The podcast special
How do you consume your podcasts? On the way to work on the train? Walking the dog? While you’re doing…
Starting from Scratch
What would be the first thing to do if you were starting from scratch? Not the usual question I am…
A new way of thinking: The Explosive Child
I was first recommended this book by Kate Iwi in 2018, and reminded of it again reading the recent paper…
The experiences of families caring for children with FASD: “no one came to help”
It is suggested that the prevalence of foetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) is greater than autism, and yet there remains…
Learning from the internet
We are only just coming to the end of January, but it has been interesting already to read a number…
Finding the right words: what I meant
We often think about the language we use in work with families where there is harmful behaviour from children, but…
Deprivation of Liberty stories
Summer is the time that I catch up on reading all the research papers and news articles that I have…
How do we keep funding going?
In March 2013, at a conference in Nottingham, a speaker warned us: we cannot make this a new thing –…