Yes, now you’ve got that 90s classic zipping through your head- have a read of this weeks excellent blog. Listen here: Moving on up, moving on up! It can be ever so challenging for adoptive parents, with vulnerable adoptees, having a variety of executive functioning and other difficulties to start moving towards independence. Hopefully, this weeks blog will give you some ideas of where to start and a chance to think through the issues faced by families at this point in life.

On Monday morning The Wright Stuff on Channel 5 ran a phone in about the controversial topic of whether a 2 year old should be told that her father killed her mother and then took his own life in prison. Here is the news link. Here at the POTATO group we understand that many of our members had their children due to reasons of extreme violence, and it is important to give their children a narrative. This is based on the work in Greg Keck’s 2002 book “Parenting the hurt child”

Founder member and chair of POTATO is to appear on the Victoria Derbyshire BBC2 programme. Together with fellow experienced adoptive parents we explain that; We love our traumatised adoptees but sometimes it is too hard for them to manage in a family. Love isn’t enough on it’s own. Our families and adopted young people need specialist ongoing support. Adoptive parents need to be treated kindly by the services. In POTATO group we are kind. Also, radio 5 are revisiting their fi

Our Chairperson has been in touch with the Childrens Society and because we have a lot of common ground we felt you all might like to get on board with their letter to your MP initiative. An opportunity to get issues heard Hi all, Our latest Good Childhood report found that teenagers are coming under pressure in all areas of their lives. From parental illness to emotional neglect, living in a household struggling with bills to being afraid in their neighbourhood, the serious