The Adoption and Fostering Podcast
Kids & Family:Parenting
In this episode we speak to NHS historian Dr Michael Lambert. He has looked at the historic evidence of Government policy to promote and facilitate removal of children from mothers in the post war period. We discuss this as well as the move towards a formal apology from the government as well as from other players in the system at that time. The conversation is revelatory and puts into perspective and questions the idea that adoption was solely driven by society.
Certainly, as a topic it places contemporary adoption in context as well as considering how modern practice still echoes the historical roots of adoption.
The links below will take you to written work, evidence Michael's letter to the movement for an adoption apology:
The birth mother and the evolution of adoption policy and practice in England since 1926 by Dr Jatinder Sandhu
Letter to the Movement for an adoption apology
The right to family life: adoption of children of unmarried women 1949-1976
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Podcast Extra: An interview with Pat Henley from Families in Care
Episode 96 - An interview with Birth Mum Clarissa
Episode 95 - An interview with Louise Bomber
Episode 94 - An interview with Lucy Peake CEO of Grandparents Plus
Episode 93 - Podcast Live!
Episode 91 - Adopter Mental Health with Simone Harch
Episode 92 - Adoption in Lockdown
Episode 89 - Inerview with Katherine SacksJones the CEO of Become
Episode 90 - An interview with Sue Armstrong Brown, CEO of Adoption UK
Conversations - Nicola
Episode 88 - Police Report on CCVAB & New Regulation
Conversations - Sophie
Episode 87 - Sally Donovan
Episode 86 - Rosie the Adoption Social Worker (pt2), Pol and the lads
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Episode 81 - Scott & Al talk #YouCanAdopt, Marketing and #InfoBanter
Episode 84 - All things lockdown and an interview with Rosie the Adoption Social Worker
Episode 83 - An interview with Special Guardians and Adopters Together
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