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For some families caring for children who have experienced trauma, this is a time where that additional pressure is amplified.

• Fostering
• Foster carers
• Adoption

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For so many of us this technology is a gift. The connection it brings us is precious. However, for those caring for vulnerable children, it can also herald new challenges.

• Fostering
• Foster carers
• Adoption

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Will they feel left out? Will they all get on? How will they cope when a child moves on?

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Social distancing will create additional challenges for all of us, and our families will find the changes and separation difficult in a number of ways.

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This Valentines Day, adoptive mum Lucy reflects on how we can care for some of our most important relationships.

• rest
• parenting
• valentines

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Adoptive mum Lucy reflects on the value of rest, particularly for our children.

• rest
• parenting

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What to ask your parliamentary candidate this general election

• Advocacy

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Excitable Edgar from this year's John Lewis ad reminds us of many of the children we are called to care for.

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What happens when your church doesn't seem to understand either your heart for fostering or adoption, or the challenges faced by your family?

• what the church needs to know

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Why do adopted/fostered children often feel a heightened sense of shame?

• what the church needs to know

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Taking a moment to recognise all that social workers do in their role working with looked after children.

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Exploring themes of therapeutic parenting in the Bible

• Fostering
• Adoption
• parenting

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Some answers to questions you may have around the new film Instant Family

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Relationships are key to repairing trauma, building attachment and resilience.

• Church
• Adoption
• Fostering
• what the church needs to know

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All we actually know is that God has us in His hands. We can trust him for the path ahead.

• Adoption
• family
• Infertility

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We send them out into the world and hope beyond hope that they make the right choices.

• Adoption
• Single adoption
• first choice

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Gone are the days when Christmas was celebrated over a day or two.

• Christmas
• helpful ideas

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Why would anyone choose a lifestyle that might make them susceptible to suffering?

• Suffering
• Adoption

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Our thank you to all the selfless and wonderful foster carers who go above and beyond to love the children in their care.

• Fostering
• Foster carers

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Fifteen practical suggestions for providing families with the support they need through challenging times.

• Placement disruption
• Fostering
• Adoption
• Church
• what the church needs to know

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The support you offer to families who care for vulnerable children will really make a difference.

• Support

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Adoptive mum Lucy reflects on the value of rest and how to achieve it.

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Julie talks with Anna, a child placement social worker.

• Social work

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The support you offer to families who care for vulnerable children will really make a difference.

• Support

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We want to equip the Church to better understand and support all families who provide kinship care and private fostering.

• what the church needs to know
• Kinship care
• Special guardianship
• Support

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Every Sunday, thousands of children go to church with complex additional needs that aren't as visible.

• what the church needs to know

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Krish Kandiah offers an inspirational call to men for Father's Day 2018.

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The story of one individual's journey from a San Diego firepit to becoming a fostering family of five.

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Many individuals and families have been approved to adopt, but are now waiting for their match. Why is this?

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Given the current situation of many adopters waiting, we asked a friend to write about her experience.

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Lucy shares from personal experience and Biblical reflection about how suffering is a part of adoption.

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I didn't know whether to laugh or cry when I saw the adoption statistic headlines last week.

• Adoption

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Infertility has been much misunderstood in Christian culture and in the Church.

• Church
• Infertility
• what the church needs to know

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Jesus blessing the children cannot be contained by the word ‘nice’.

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In what world could the words corporate and parent ever be joined together? In the life of a child in care, that’s where.

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How to support those going through the process to foster or adopt.

• Fostering
• Adoption
• Church
• Waiting
• Support
• what the church needs to know

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Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) are a reality for many looked after children and their families.

• Church
• FASD
• what the church needs to know

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What are 'introductions', why do they matter and how can we support adopters and foster carers who are going through this process.

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Understanding why and how parenting may need to be different when caring for vulnerable children.

• Church
• Fostering
• Adoption
• Support
• what the church needs to know

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Suggestions from foster carers for ten support ideas specific to fostering.

• Fostering

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To be safe and welcoming, it is vital that churches understand and respect the need for confidentiality.

• Church
• Support
• what the church needs to know

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A foster carer shares her heart and reflects on her role.

• Fostering

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Madlug is a lifestyle brand with a difference. For every purchase, they give a bag to a child in care.

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To be safe and welcoming, it is vital that churches understand attachment.

• Church
• Attachment
• what the church needs to know

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Twenty important and practical suggestions to consider.

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Why 'moves' matter and how to support foster and adoptive families through times of transition.

• Church
• Fostering
• what the church needs to know

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How choosing to foster or adopt can be a response to God's call.

• Church
• Fostering
• Adoption
• what the church needs to know

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Christmas can be full of joy and festive fun, but also brings difficulties for looked after or adopted children.

• Fostering
• Adoption
• Christmas
• Support
• Church

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As part of National Adoption Week 2018 we want to encourage everyone to #SupportAdoption

• Adoption
• Support

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Exploring family and all its complicated and wonderful variations from Exodus 1 and 2.

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Looking at some of the changes in adoption over recent decades and remembering the pain behind every adoption story.

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Exploring the ongoing identity challenges many looked after children may have.

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Tips and guidelines on how to support fostered and adopted children and young people.

• Support
• Fostering
• Adoption
• Church
• what the church needs to know

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Five questions that might help you better support foster or adoptive families

• Fostering
• Adoption
• what the church needs to know

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Lord Jesus, today we think of you...

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How can churches become the kind of supportive, loving communities that are so needed by many who have fostered or adopted? How do we ensure we provide a place of hope and support when people feel isolated and overwhelmed?

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Dr Tim Davy offers five helpful suggestions for anyone preparing to speak on adoption and fostering.

• Adoption
• Fostering

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The Bible is very quiet about that Saturday... It must have been a very dark day for those who lived it.

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Caring for vulnerable children is rarely easy, which is why support really matters.

• Support

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Exploring what support for foster and adoptive families could look like.

• Support
• Adoption
• Church

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How the Church can support foster and adoptive families and the difference it makes.

• Support
• Church
• what the church needs to know

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An overview of different children's and young people's experiences and explanation of the types of care they may need.

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Ten ideas of small things you can do this summer, which might make a big difference to those who foster or adopt.

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For being such a tiny little word, ‘just’ carries with it some enormous connotations. Here are five examples of times that we need to avoid saying it – and suggestions for what we could say instead.

• what the church needs to know

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Ten ways to pray for new adoptive families during their introductions and early days together.

• Adoption

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The extraordinary story of families in York responding to God's call to open their hearts and homes to young refugees.

• Unaccompanied minors
• Refugees
• Fostering

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Helping us to understand that all children in care or with a care background have experienced trauma, and how we can respond to support them.

• Church
• Trauma
• what the church needs to know

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Lucy shares some practical tips from her personal experience of adopting after having birth children.

• Adoption
• Siblings

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Five tips from foster carers for holding on in the midst of the chaotic and unplanned moments.

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A growing number of those sensing God's call to adopt are single, so here are some thoughts from single adopters so we can better understand and support each one.

• Single adopter
• Church
• Adoption
• what the church needs to know

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Julie reflects on the role that the Church can have in the lives of vulnerable children.

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For Foster Care Fortnight 2017, we asked foster carers for their thoughts.

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Our thoughts for Father's Day 2017

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For Foster Care Fortnight 2017, we asked foster carers for their thoughts.

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For Foster Care Fortnight 2017, we asked foster carers for their thoughts.

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A reflection for Mother's Day 2017

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Find out more about Pete's Dragon, Disney's latest live-action family film about an orphan and his dragon.

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Disney's latest film is beautiful and hilarious - but not for 93,000 children in the UK.

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Our final advent reflection considers the cost of serving God however He asks.

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Our fourth advent reflection looks at Luke 2.6-7.

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Our third advent reflection considers how Mary and Joseph reacted to the promises spoken over them.

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Could this advent be the beginning of your journey?

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Could this advent be the beginning of your journey?

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The final reflection written for Advent 2015, focussed on PEACE in our waiting, found in Jesus.

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The third of our reflections written for Advent 2015, focussed on the Magi and WISDOM in our waiting.

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The second of our reflections written for Advent 2015, focussed on the shepherds and JOY in our waiting.

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The first of our reflections written for Advent 2015, focussed on Mary and HOPE in our waiting.

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Reason four: Because, at our best, it is what we have always done.

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Reason three: Because it explains, expresses and celebrates who we are.

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Reason two: Because it is a justice issue.

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Reason one: Because of God's heart for the vulnerable.