Family Routes is a new study on the lives of #teenagers and #youngadults in adoptive and Special Guardianship families. Adoptive parents, Special Guardians and #youngpeople aged 12-25 can take part. Find about more and register your participation �� bit.ly/3lQik28

An important case. A child's relatives should be given proper consideration. Austerity social care is letting our most vulnerable children down, taking them out of their birth families and not supporting a child's relatives bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/…

childlawadvice.org.uk Coram Coram Voice is one of the many organisations that doesn't help adoptive families dealing with historical child sex abuse. They send you to the legal centre who tell you they can't take on the case! Dino Nocivelli Children's Commissioner for England 💙Rachael Maskell MP

Special Guardians and Adopters Together💙 Coram Voice Dino Nocivelli Children's Commissioner for England 💙Rachael Maskell MP Hello, we are sorry to read this. Please can you send us a private message with more details so that we can contact the necessary teams to respond? Thank you, Coram.

Would love to read this Becca Dove. How can The POTATO Group see it ? Very pertinent to something we are planning to talk about in the coming yr.

LA’s & Councils need to get their acts together 😡 They remove children from first families, their CSC teams are these children’s corporate parents,THEY place some children in good enough children’s homes & then their planning departments allow this sort of discrimination 😡

This week is Mental Health Awareness Week. At Talitha Arts, we believe mental health and well-being matters, no matter the week. At Talitha, we believe everyone struggling with their mental health should have fair and equal access to mental health support.

Talitha Arts exist to enable vulnerable individuals and communities. Our bespoke and uniquely designed therapeutic arts workshops help bring restoration, transformation and freedom to beneficiaries' lives, using a range of creative arts. talitha.org.uk

This week the ‘Talitha Arts Garden’ is being rehomed at St. Margaret’s House, its new forever home! 🌿 We cannot wait for the local community as well as the Talitha Arts community and beneficiaries to be able to share in our gold ‘Best in Category’ garden 🦋

Understanding the trauma a BP goes through under forced adoptions is a trauma ignored by all of humanity. #Adoption

bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… Very moving when Simon Woolley talks about his reunification meeting with his birth mother. It was too much.

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-662048… Brave girl #CSA pre care is not uncommon in adoption Talking about its impact & legacy should not be so hard. #TakeAwayTheShame

🚨NEW stats released today show that the number of children in care is at an all time high - 83,840. We're urging @jeremy_hunt to invest in children and families in the #AutumnStatement to tackle the ongoing crisis in the system. Read more 👇 frg.org.uk/news-blogs-and…

Family Rights Group Sir Jeremy Hunt MP The other reason the figure for children in care is so high is because local authorities are not returning them to their families when parents have made significant improvements to their lives. They take them permanently and destroy families.