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 who runs hiddenvictims.co.uk Caring for a child who has experienced early life adversity...

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. If you would like to visit...

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,...

This is the letter that the adult adopted daughter of one of our members wrote to her MP. It’s a powerful reminder of just how important...

Our first contribution, written powerfully from the heart, comes from a member who is tirelessly advocating for her adopted son 20 years...

Every year, we have a couple of days break from looking after our traumatised adopted young people. In the team of POTATO we have some...

Whilst Potato is a support group, SG&AT are a campaigning group. It’s members ‘come together to think about what needs to change and...

There are a large number of families with traumatised adoptees who have been subjected to child protection enquiries. Our group has...

Not an easy thing to talk about but our wonderful adoptive mum Sonya and her daughter Danni are giving it a go. There are a fair...

There are lots of adopted children who have foetal alcohol who have particular challenges in life and educationally. Not many children...

We are delighted to share a set of short film clips made by one of our members and her now young adult daughter. Emotional in places,...

We have a great deal of parents of traumatised adopted teens who struggle at school. Their troubles are often to do with the ways school...