The Adoption and Fostering Podcast
Kids & Family:Parenting
As it's #NationalAdoptionWeek next week so we thought we'd speak to Pam Hodgkins, adoptee, retired social worker, founder of NORCAP and MBE. Pam has a wealth of lived and professional experience to share and she kindly did that with us.
Pam shares her personal experiences of adoption and growing up in the 50s and 60s as an adoptee, she then shares her experience of searching for her birth parents and how that lead ultimately to the formation of NORCAP. We chat through the inconsistencies, and injustices, in the legislation and how they impact adopted people. Pam campaigned effectively for change but has returned from retirement to carry the banner again for adopted people. She shares her insightful views on the current campaign for an apology and her hopes that it will open a door to support for the older adoptees and their birth parent who are running out of time.
It's a long podcast so get a brew and a comfy chair, we'd hoped to release it as a prerecorded webcast (get us!) but our technology wasn't quite up to it.
We hope you find it interesting and as always if you’ve experience of adoption, Fostering or special guardianship from any perspective and would like share that on the podcast please get in touch through the Facebook or twitter page or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com
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Episode 152 - National Union of Professional Foster Carers + Bantz
Breaking News! the Adoption and Special Guardianship Leadership Board is to end.
Fostering Conversations - Matilda
Episode 151 - Census, Prescriptions and Tea lights
#Wednesday Webcast with Rebekah Pierre
Adoption Conversations - Susie
Live #Winterantz Webcast
Episode 150 - A Conversation with John Radoux
#AdoptionConversations - Petra
Ep 149 pt2 - School Exclusions with Ruth Whiteside
Episode 149 Pt1: School Exclusion, Children’s Voices with Sarah Martin-Denham
Adoption Conversations - Adoptee Saul
Adoption Conversations - Lara
Adoption Conversations - Sammy
Conversations - Megan Tanner
Adoption Conversations - Adopter Carolyn
Episode 148 - New minsters and appointees, approval transfers, foster protests and more
Episode 147 - Fostering and the cost of living crisis with Sarah Anderson
Episode 146 - A trip to Ireland, Permanence and what is our future?
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