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Al coates @alcoates.bsky.social · 19h

Conversations - Parenting from a Distance with Adoptive parent Cath

#Adoption
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Conversations - Parenting from a Distance with Adoptive parent Cath

Hello and welcome to conversations from the A&F podcast. In this episode I speak to adoptive parent Cath who is parenting from a distance, a position that many adoptive families find themselves ...

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Al coates @alcoates.bsky.social · 1d

Adoption Disruption - Fiona Wells, adopter, adoptee and founder of PATCH
#adoption

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Adoption Disruption - Fiona Wells, adopter, adoptee and founder of PATCH

Hello and welcome to the A&F podcast. Over the next episodes we’re focusing our gaze on the issue of adoption disruption. It’s a hugely sensitive subject matter with the impact on children, adult...

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Al coates @alcoates.bsky.social · 1d

Watch BBC One North East & Cumbria live - BBC iPlayer www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/live...

Watch BBC One live - BBC iPlayer

Watch BBC One live on BBC iPlayer.

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Al coates @alcoates.bsky.social · 1d

Better Me Better Us: Ep 29 Different Lenses
@BMBUltd

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Better Me Better Us: Ep 29 Different Lenses

This month we’re exploring how our different lenses - our lived experiences, values, and professional knowledge, shape the way we see and interpret behaviour. They influence how we respond, the langua...

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Al coates @alcoates.bsky.social · 1d

Not that impressed by the headline but it's always good to get the issue on the news.

"Northumberland parents learn self defence against their children'

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Northumberland parents learn self defence against their children

Some parents say help is not available quickly enough to deal with violence from their children.

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Al coates @alcoates.bsky.social · 4d

Conversations - Parenting from a Distance with Adoptive parent Cath
#Adoption #ParentingfromaDistance
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Conversations - Parenting from a Distance with Adoptive parent Cath

Hello and welcome to conversations from the A&F podcast. In this episode I speak to adoptive parent Cath who is parenting from a distance, a position that many adoptive families find themselves ...

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Al coates @alcoates.bsky.social · 6d

Kinship Week Special - The Voices of Kinship Children with Dr Paul Shuttleworth
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Kinship Week Special - The Voices of Kinship Children with Dr Paul Shuttleworth

Hello and welcome to our Kinship week live with Dr Paul Shuttleworth. We chat about the voices of children and Dr Paul's new book, Listening to Children about Kinship care, child welfare and permanenc...

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Al coates @alcoates.bsky.social · 8d

Conversations - Parenting from a Distance with Adoptive parent Cath
#Adoption #Parentingfromadistance

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Conversations - Parenting from a Distance with Adoptive parent Cath | The Adoption and Fostering Podcast

Hello and welcome to conversations from the A&F podcast. In this episode I speak to adoptive parent Cath who is parenting from a distance, a position that many adoptive families find themselves ...

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Al coates @alcoates.bsky.social · 9d

Episode 219 - Kinship Report, Disruption Research and Bantz
#Adoption #Kinship

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Episode 219 - Kinship Report, Disruption Research and Bantz

Hello and welcome to this episode of the A&F podcast, we're on the cusp of Kinship week so we look a the report published this week "Handle With Care: Annual survey of kinship carers 2025" view he...

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Al coates @alcoates.bsky.social · 11d

Episode 219 - Kinship Report, Disruption Research and Bantz

#Adoption #Kinship
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Episode 219 - Kinship Report, Disruption Research and Bantz

Hello and welcome to this episode of the A&F podcast, we're on the cusp of Kinship week so we look a the report published this week "Handle With Care: Annual survey of kinship carers 2025" view he...

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Al coates @alcoates.bsky.social · 12d

Adoption Disruption - Solicitor Nigel Priestly

#Adoption #AdoptionDisruption

Adoption Disruption - Solicitor Nigel Priestly

Hello and welcome to the A&F podcast. Over the coming episodes we’re focusing our gaze on the issue of adoption disruption. It’s a hugely sensitive subject matter and we’ve talked to a range of…

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Al coates @alcoates.bsky.social · 13d

Adoption Disruption - Ruth's story
#Adoption
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Adoption Disruption - Ruth's story

Hello and welcome to the A&F podcast. Over the next episodes we’re focusing our gaze on the issue of adoption disruption. It’s a hugely sensitive subject matter with the impact on children, adult...

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Al coates @alcoates.bsky.social · 14d

Adoption Disruption - Solicitor Nigel Priestly
#Adoption #AdoptionDisruption

Adoption Disruption - Solicitor Nigel Priestly

Hello and welcome to the A&F podcast. Over the coming episodes we’re focusing our gaze on the issue of adoption disruption. It’s a hugely sensitive subject matter and we’ve talked to a range of…

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Al coates @alcoates.bsky.social · 25d

On this weeks episode we speak about @adoptionuk.bsky.social barometer and the new minster

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Episode 218 - Adoption Barometer, New Minister & Becky Brooks

Podcast Episode · The Adoption and Fostering Podcast · 20/09/2025 · 1h 14m

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Al coates @alcoates.bsky.social · Sep 6

Episode 217 - Conversation with Bryan Post www.podbean.com/eas/pb-s6cgb...

Episode 217 - Conversation with Bryan Post

Hello and welcome to this episode, a conversation with Bryan Post. We were delighted to get the opportunity to speak to him at the end of August. He was a generous guest and shares some of his person...

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The Churchill Fellowship @churchillfship.bsky.social · Sep 2

“Anyone thinking of applying, I would say just do it.” –
@alcoates.bsky.social

Applications for the Churchill Fellowship are now OPEN!

Apply by 4 November and turn your passion into action: churchillfellowship.org/become-a-fel...

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Al coates @alcoates.bsky.social · Aug 30

Breaking News: Online Peer Support Grant Awarded

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Breaking News: Online Peer Support Grant Awarded

So, it's happened! After much talking about how we can or should support families I'm throwing my hat into the ring in a much more meaningful way.

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Al coates @alcoates.bsky.social · Aug 29

I've added another interview to the library of interviews from my
The Churchill Fellowship

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report podcast. Here I speak to Tracy Moisan Director of the National Consortium on #AFCCA from Canada

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Al coates @alcoates.bsky.social · Aug 26

I chatted to Karine Tremblay from Canada as a follow on to my @churchillfship.bsky.social report
We talked the impact of caring for children with challenging behaviour on adopters - Filial Trauma
#adoption #adopter
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Al coates @alcoates.bsky.social · Aug 24

Churchill Fellowship update: Karine Tremblay - Filial Trauma
#adoption #adoptionparenting #trauma

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Churchill Fellowship update: Karine Tremblay - Filial Trauma

Hello and welcome to conversations from the A&F podcast. A few months ago I was contacted by Karine Tremblay an adoptive parent, social worker and researcher in relation to her work on the impact...

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Al coates @alcoates.bsky.social · Aug 23

Nobody signed up for THIS.

Now feel free to judge but I can recall with stark clarity muttering under my breath;

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The Belay Foundation @thebelayfoundation.org.uk · Jul 23

Interested in finding out more about what we do at #Belay, and thinking about what practical support for Special Guardian, Kinship and Adoptive families actually looks like? Join us as we chat live to @gayadoptiondad.bsky.social and @alcoates.bsky.social on the A&F Podcast tonight at 7pm!

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Al coates @alcoates.bsky.social · Aug 20

Exciting news!
The funding bid to Adoption England I made with Charlotte J at Beacon Family Services has been awarded
Drawing on my Churchill Fellowship here's the link to the report podcast re Peer support
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Details to follow!

#CCVAB #CPV #AFCCA

Churchill Fellowship Report Part 1: Walking with Families - Introduction and Peer Support | The Adoption and Fostering Podcast

Hello and welcome to this first episode of Al's Churchill Fellowship. You can read the full report here. This episode draws on peer support specialists working directly with parents and carers living ...

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Al coates @alcoates.bsky.social · Aug 6

"in NVR, the family is not viewed as a circle with one center – the child – but rather as an ellipse with two centers – the parents and the child."
Community, compassion and acknowledgement are good starting points.

#CPV #AFCCA #CPAVA #Adoption #Fostering #kinship

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Al coates @alcoates.bsky.social · Aug 4

My hope is to build on the The Churchill Fellowship of 2024 and create more room for conversations and insights to how we support families living with #CPV. I've a page on my website where I've gathered the old and then new.

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