PRESS RELEASE Far, far beyond the Adoption Order by The POTATO Group For release 30th June 2025 Download this press release. Download our...

In May 2024, The Potato Group, in partnership with The Belay Foundation, hosted a unique conference for professionals , presenting the...

The Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF) is a vital source of therapeutic support for some of our most vulnerable...

In September, members of The Potato Group were invited to present to Adoption Lancashire & Blackpool during their annual training day.

This month, professionals joined The Potato Group for our first-ever conference. Far, Far Beyond the Adoption Order: Lessons from Lives Impa

The Potato Group is currently planning a ground-breaking conference for professionals. In May 2024, The Potato Group, in partnership with...

The Criminal Injury Compensation Authority (CICA) is the government body that makes awards to innocent victims of violent crimes. Some...

The "invisible children". The children who haven't returned to school since the pandemic. This article has been reproduced by kind...

Sometimes putting 'real life' into words can be powerful. Here, one of our members is describing relationship struggles with her young...

The Safe and Sound Protocol is a listening programme based on Dr. Stephen Porges' Theory.

Here it is at last – ASF 22 criteria published today. FUNDING ELIGIBILITY To be eligible for funding, local authorities and RAAs must...

A Potato member's view given as a Presentation to a UK national study day on child-to-parent abuse on 15 November 2021. Child to parent...

The Care Review, The Spending Review - Is any of it enough? The long awaited APPGAP report relating to adoption and permanence has now...

Reproduced by kind permission of Simone Harch. Caring for a child who has experienced early life adversity can be stressful in many ways.  Adoptive parents who I interviewed experienced high levels of stress through being unprepared to parent their children; experiencing physical and emotional abuse from children; isolation; fighting for support and understanding; and feeling worried for the future. My personal experiences strongly aligned with these findings. As National A

After a difficult week one of our members , Louise , wrote this: – Just going to leave this here because I know many of you are, or have...

Potato Members have recently been attending a variety of online events talking about CPV (Child to Parent Violence), Attachment and The...

There are some of our members who are not only adopters but also Special Guardians. The Potato Group has been given permission to publish...

A very interesting blog piece around regulation. We have been kindly been given permission to post it here. Regulation and the Adoptive Parent Emotional regulation is an unconscious act for many of us. When emotionally regulated, we often feel calm, connected and safe within ourselves and with the world in general. While life may not be ‘perfect’, our sense is one of hope. We are alive in the present moment. When we become unregulated, we move out of this calm, connecte

Being an adopter faced with the complexity and difficulties of parenting our tats through the teenage years and beyond, we are held back...

One of our members recently had a conversation with a friend which left her struggling. “My son is making some difficult choices this...

This moving piece of poetry was written by a member. It clearly shows the struggle and heartbreak that many adoptive parents experience,...