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Following years of continual increases the latest Government statistics for England suggest the number of children entering care may be starting to stabilise, yet the figures remain very high and number of adoptions per year continues to fall.

• Advocacy
• Political Advocacy
• statistics
• Fostering
• Adoption

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Somewhat Sweary and Very Articulate - The Unofficial Guide to Therapeutic Parenting for Childhood Aggression and Violence by Sally Donovan and Carly Kingswood

• book review
• Fostering
• Adoption

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• Advocacy
• Political Advocacy
• General Election 2024

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• Advocacy
• Political Advocacy
• General Election 2024
• Fostering
• Adoption
• Supported Lodgings

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Despite the outward appearance of a crushing setback, Good Friday was a day of triumph, unveiling God's divine plan and the true nature of his reign.

• Easter
• Reflections
• Prayer

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Our Northern Ireland and Nations’ Lead, Roger Cooke shares some reflections on fire, community and the Olympic Games.

• Fostering
• Adoption
• Church

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Home for Good’s Theologian in Residence, Tim Davy, shares some reflections on being honest with God, for our own sake and for others.

• Prayer
• theology

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There’s so much we can do, right now, to make a positive difference in the lives of young people in care. Some of these things might seem small or insignificant – but the truth is that they have a huge impact.

• Church
• Teenagers
• Teenagers in care

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Our theologian in residence Tim Davy explores how our identity and value as human beings is rooted in being made in God's image.

• Identity
• theology
• Children
• Teenagers

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School, and the return to it after the summer holidays, can be particularly challenging for children who have had a difficult start in life.

• back to school
• Summer
• Fostering
• Adoption
• Foster carers

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Our five asks to help the next government commit to systemic improvements to children’s social care.

• Adoption
• Advocacy
• Political Advocacy
• Supported Lodgings
• Care Review

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Here's what stood out to us in Joe Swash: Teens in Care.

• Fostering
• Supported Lodgings
• Teenagers
• Teenagers in care

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Simon shares of two encounters that taught him the true meaning of hospitality

• Hospitality
• Fostering
• Cultural diversity

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Inspired by Foster Care Fortnight, I wanted to write a piece about theology and foster care. But here’s the trouble: there isn’t a theology of foster care.

• theology
• Fostering
• Foster carers
• Foster Care Fortnight

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• Supported Lodgings
• Advocacy
• Teenagers

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Simon reflects on the places and spaces where Jesus spent his time, and what that means for us as we care for children through fostering, adoption and supported lodgings

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Home for Good’s Theologian in Residence, Tim Davy, shares some reflections on community from the book of Romans.

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Understanding the adoption landscape in 2023.

• Adoption
• adoption process
• Children who wait the longest

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At Home for Good, we haven't made any New Year's resolutions this year. Here's why.

• Caring for Teenagers
• Finding homes
• Tackling racial disparity
• We are Home for Good

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At Home for Good we are committed to seeing change from the top down – sparking systemic improvements to the care system plays a crucial role in our mission to find homes across the UK.

• Advocacy
• Care Review
• Self-Employed Adoption
• Supported Lodgings
• Foster carers
• northern ireland

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How can you survive and thrive in the strange days between Christmas and New Year’s Eve?

• Christmas
• Adoption
• Fostering
• New Year
• Support

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The John Lewis Christmas ad is here. And we love it.

• Christmas

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At Home for Good, we rely on your gifts and generosity to ensure that every child has a stable and loving home where they can thrive.

• Fundraising

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What steps can we take towards helping a child or teenager understand who they are?

• Identity
• Teenagers

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What if God’s kingdom on earth looked like our families reflecting His?

• family
• Fostering
• Adoption
• Supported Lodgings
• theology

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At Home for Good one of our values is that we are hopeful – or hope-full. Why is that so important to us? There are lots of reasons, but here are three of them.

• theology

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Suggestions to help you consider how you can navigate the summer as those caring through fostering, adoption or supported lodgings.

• Summer
• holidays

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We can't wait to join you at a number of festivals this summer, including The Gathering in Swindon, Festival Manchester, New Wine and Creation Fest. Find out why.

• Summer
• Festivals

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Today, Home for Good is publishing a new report entitled, Adoption pay: Levelling up for the self-employed.

• Advocacy

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There are so many ways for us to practice and demonstrate hospitality, and a world of people to receive it

• Hospitality
• Make room
• theology

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Home for Good believe the Church is ideally placed to make a transformational difference, offering more safe and loving homes for children and teenagers who are waiting and a robust and stable support network ready to welcome and care.

• Church
• church engagement
• theology

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Tim Davy tells us a bit about his role and what it means for him to work with Home for Good

• Home for Good news
• theology

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Home for Good loves working in cities, find out why and how you can get involved.

• City wide campaigns
• Festival Manchester
• in every corner

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• northern ireland

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In Autumn 2021, we invited our Friends of Home for Good* to ask us their most pressing questions about what we do

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How can we navigate this brilliant, complex, difficult, wonderful day well for those who are care-experienced and their families?

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In Jesus, we see God’s care for His people demonstrated in word and deed. In Jesus, we see God’s love of justice in action.

• Justice
• Gen Z
• Social Justice
• Care System
• Biblical mandate

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Rachael Maskell has been the MP for York Central since 2015. Rachael chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Adoption and Permanence, and has shared with us a little about her role.

• Advocacy
• Together

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‘The days are long but the years are short.’

• New Year
• 2022
• Reflections
• Together

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To every individual, couple and family loving and raising care-experienced children..

• Foster carers
• Adopters
• Special guardianship
• Kinship Carers
• Care-experienced
• Christmas
• Caring for Teenagers
• Caring for Children at Christmas
• Caring for Children
• We see you
• Encouragement
• Support

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We all have different preferences, experiences and priorities when it comes to presents. For care-experienced children and their families, it’s another part of Christmas that might need to look a little different.

• Christmas
• Care-experienced
• Presents
• Trauma

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For many of us, our enjoyment and experience of food is something we take for granted, particularly at this time of year. Here are four things that might mean food at Christmas has to look a little different for some families.

• Christmas
• Care-experienced
• Food
• Meals

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We want to highlight three examples of areas that can be challenging and offer some questions that might help you consider what part you could play in supporting the families in your church in this season.

• Christmas
• Care-experienced
• Church
• what the church needs to know

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Let’s dig a little deeper into some of the storylines, themes and character depictions in our favourite Christmas films.

• Christmas
• Care-experienced
• Films

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We are often asked similar questions by people who are exploring adopting children over the age of three – with many questions based on misunderstandings or assumptions.

• Adoption
• Adopters
• adoption process
• Myths
• Older Children

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“We believe we can see the tide turn on racial inequality within the care system.”

• Racial disparity
• UKME
• Advocacy
• Church

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An adoptive mum shares how she journeys with her children and finds precious connections, even in those harder moments.

• Teenage
• Teenagers
• Adoption
• Trauma
• stability
• Prayer
• Identity

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Our desire is for children and young people not just to experience initial stability, but ongoing security, safety and love with relationships that remain consistent and ongoing in their lives.

• stability
• Systemic change
• Care System
• Advocacy

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This month, we’re focusing on the theme of stability. Our desire is for children and young people not just to experience initial stability, but ongoing security, safety and love with relationships that remain consistent and ongoing in their lives.

• stability
• Church
• Advocacy

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What to do if you’re alongside someone who might have compassion fatigue, whether they have identified it as this or not.

• Compassion Fatigue
• Fostering
• Adoption
• Fostering teenagers
• Foster carers
• Trauma response

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It can be so difficult to recognise and acknowledge the signs of compassion fatigue. Here are five things you can do if this is where you find yourself today.

• Compassion Fatigue
• Fostering
• Adoption
• Fostering teenagers
• Foster carers
• Trauma response

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Compassion fatigue can affect people from all walks of life. But what is it, and why does it happen to us?

• Compassion Fatigue
• Fostering
• Adoption
• Fostering teenagers
• Foster carers
• Trauma response

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We've all dreamed of the perfect family day out but the reality is often not how we imagined

• Summer
• Fostering
• Adoption
• Trauma
• Trauma response

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At Home for Good we are committed to finding a home for every child who needs one – and we take a two-pronged approach to achieve this vision.

• Advocacy
• Systemic change
• vulnerable children

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Whatever the next few months hold for you, we want you to know we are standing with you and praying for you.

• Summer
• Foster carers
• Fostering
• Adoption

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Every child coming into care experiences loss but there are things that we can do to support children and young people as they navigate living with loss

• what the church needs to know
• Loss

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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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For many parents, the 6 – 7 week stretch of the school holidays can be daunting, and for those raising children who have had a tricky start in life, this is amplified. So why is it so difficult?

• Summer
• Fostering
• Adoption

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For some families caring for children who have had difficult starts in life, home can be a place where violence occurs.

• what the church needs to know
• Violent behaviour
• Fostering
• Adoption

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Interactions with the children we care for are like the back-and-forths of a tennis match.

• Foster carers
• Adoption
• Adopters
• Trauma response
• Support

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It is not an exaggeration to say that great wraparound care for families can be life changing

• Teenagers
• Understanding Adolescence

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All children who are fostered or have been adopted have experienced trauma, whatever the details of their story, and trauma has a profound impact on brain development.

• Teenagers
• Understanding Adolescence

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The first 1000 days of a child’s life are often heralded as being the most significant, in no small part because of what is happening in the brain.

• Teenagers
• Understanding Adolescence

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It is well-evidenced that trauma has a deep-rooted impact on our emotional, physical, and social development, which can impede our ability to navigate the world and feel safe.

• National Refugee Week
• Teenagers
• Unaccompanied minors
• Advocacy

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Teenagers in care are 80% more likely than the national average to have two or more changes of home in a year.

• Teenagers
• Five Star
• Advocacy

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Home for Good is passionate about finding a home for every child, at every age.

• Teenagers

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Older children in care are the fastest growing cohort of children and yet too many children who age out of the care system in England every year are doing so without a family to belong to.

• Teenagers
• Advocacy

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In response to the independent review of Children’s Social Care in England, the APPG for Adoption and Permanence launched a new inquiry called Strengthening Families.

• APPG
• Advocacy

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Understanding the adoption landscape in 2021.

• Adoption
• adoption process
• Children who wait the longest

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Many care-experienced children experience sensory integration difficulties – what does this mean?

• Adoption
• Children
• Response
• sensory processing
• Body
• what the church needs to know

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Is the economic spend on the care system in the UK bringing about the outcomes and flourishing for children and young people that we want to see?

• Advocacy

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The gospel is such good news, but for those who are care-experienced there are parts of the Easter story that may feel more complex.

• Easter

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The Secretary of State for Education confirmed Dame Rachel de Souza as the next Children’s Commissioner for England

• Advocacy

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In this crazy year of 2020, we see you and we thank you.

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For those of us caring for children who have experienced trauma, Christmas can be an interesting time...

• Fostering
• Foster carers
• Adoption

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During this hugely challenging season, Home for Good is committed to our vision to find a home for every child who needs one. We will continue to work passionately on behalf of vulnerable children across the UK.

• Advocacy

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Paul has seen so much about how God works and why he loves vulnerable children through becoming a foster carer.

• Fostering
• Foster carers
• Adoption

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Welcoming a teenager into our home of four young children was a great decision for us.

• Fostering
• Foster carers
• Adoption

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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 love and care for.

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What happens when your church doesn't seem to understand?

• 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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What if your grown-up child announces that he/she wants to adopt? You may be delighted – or quite understandably, you may feel anxious.

• 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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15 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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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 will really make a difference.

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

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

• Adoption

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

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Understanding why and how parenting may need to be different.

• Church
• Fostering
• Adoption
• Support
• 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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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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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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A foster carer shares her heart and reflects on her role.

• Fostering

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

• Fostering

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

• Church
• Fostering
• what the church needs to know

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20 important and practical suggestions to consider.

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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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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 and respect the need for confidentiality.

• Church
• Support
• what the church needs to know

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Christmas can be full of joy and festive fun, but also brings challenges.

• Fostering
• Adoption
• Christmas
• Support
• Church

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

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

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

• Adoption
• Support

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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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Lord Jesus, today we think of you...

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

• Fostering
• Adoption
• what the church needs to know

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

• Adoption

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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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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, adopt or provide supported lodgings.

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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 children with care experience.

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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.