PAC-UK have launched their ‘BIG CONSULT 2022’ surveys for adopted people & birth families. @PACUKadoption want to hear about the experiences & views of adopted people & birth families on a range of #adoption issues so that their voices can be heard. 👉 buff.ly/3XpiSum

☹️🥹😭🤣 This is fully what I'm expecting for PhD write-up year. Please let the emojis be telling a chronological story!

link.springer.com/chapter/10.100… Book Chapter 'Restorying Trauma: Child Sexual Abuse' is out. I will post more in the NY as there are some important messages in here, but having a social media break over Christmas. Thanks to my amazing critical friend @duckett_n & editors Tom & Sarah #CSA

A glorious Christmas story

Considering a career in #socialwork? Come and study at UEA Social Work, a world-leading social work department. We have places available on our MA programme for 2023/24, with NHS bursaries available to support home applicants: uea.ac.uk/course/postgra… Suffolk & Norfolk Social Work Teaching Partnership

🗣️‘I was traumatised... I've lived with this for almost 55 years' Woman’s Hour listener Debbie Nahid is an adult adoptee in her 50s. She joined anita rani to speak about her experience of adoption and how it’s impacted her life. 🎧 Listen here ⬇️ Adult Adoptee Movement

Roger Sylvester would have been 55 today. It’s hard to believe because I never got to know him past 31. No one did. Roger was a youth worker for Islington. He spent the day with his cousin Ann on 11 January 1999, helping at her phone shop in Tottenham. Then he walked home. 🧵1/

Throughout this week, I will be attending the @EUSARF conference taking place at the @Sussexuni in the UK. Unfortunately, my participation in this conference has been reduced to a mere online participation due to @ukho visa rejection. Read more here: linkedin.com/posts/abduhali…

Angela Rippon me in in her 70s my 30s #strictly

We're pleased to welcome Tesco announcement that they will be providing paid #KinshipCareLeave on a par with adoption leave for all #SpecialGuardians in their workforce. We hope that over time, the policy will be extended to all #KinshipCarers.

current waiting list for ‘benign’ gynae is 3 years. hysterectomy is 2-3 years. laparoscopy surgery is 4 years. 3 months for MRI results. 10 weeks for a smear test. 10 years for endo diagnosis. they are distracting you from their incompetency with this. don’t fall for it.

Does anyone have an invite to the other place everyone is heading to?

Am now over at the other place: annemurphy.bsky.social (no annoying extra m in the middle this time!)

Adoptees share the 'extreme emotional challenge' of meeting birth parents decades after adoption bigissue.com/news/social-ju…

Parenting is always challenging, but for adopted people becoming a mum or dad can be extra demanding, as well as extra special, says UEA's Prof Beth Neil 👩‍👦 UEA Social Work Beth Neil Economic and Social Research Council #Parenthood #Parenting #Adoption #Family

Finally able to share my research project survey, and am calling for any #adoptees who feel able to respond, to please do so. It will be greatly appreciated! app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/brunel/adopt…

Our new Birth Families Support Map for England is now live 🌟 Has your family been affected by adoption in England? Are you looking for support and information? Find services available in your area. Start searching with your postcode here: frg.org.uk/birth-families…

🎉 Post doc alert 🎉 We are looking for someone with excellent ethnographic research experience and a clear commitment to amplifying the voices of learning-disabled young people in research, including those who are non-verbal or minimally verbal! More info below ⬇️⬇️ Please RT!

Adoption England are developing some National Practice Standards for maintaining relationships for adopted children and are looking for feedback from practitioners and birth parents. Share your thoughts 👇 surveys.leeds.gov.uk/s/MR-standards…