We’ve all met them…. You know…those people that make us feel a bit inadequate. Those people who seem to be able to cope with anything life throws at them and still be able to smile! Well sometimes it can seem like that when talking to our adopters. There are those that just manage to take […]
The hard hitting documentary will showcase issues surrounding Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) and hear from Health Experts who have told ITV’s Exposure why the Government must change it’s advice to women drinking during pregnancy. With over 100 babies being born to Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder every year in Britain, health experts say that this is the […]
The government’s £19.3m Adoption Support Fund, will benefit more than 3,000 families that have adopted a child, latest figures suggest. A recent article published in the Children & Young People Now magazine stated that The Department for Education has revealed that in the 10 areas piloting the fund – which pays for specialist therapeutic services to […]
Read the remarkable story of why single mother Jilly Smithson wanted to adopt down’s syndrome babies. Read below a recent article in The Guardian online, titled ‘I chose to adopt two babies with Down’s syndrome as a single mother’. The article centres around Jilly who was entering her late 30’s as a single woman and […]
The biggest education reforms in a generation for children and young people with special educational needs became law on Monday 1 September. The new Children and Families Act will offer simpler, improved and consistent help for children and young people with SEN and Disabilities (special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)). As well as protecting the schools […]
Did you know that almost half of children waiting for a family placement have an impairment or some form of special need? Some people have a fear of disability, but not Michael Atwal-Brice and his partner, Paul. When they adopted identical two year old, disabled twin boys, Levi and Lucas, they were over the moon. Like parents everywhere, […]
Adopting a child with disabilities is a big commitment for anyone, but for Cornish couple Joy and Nic Constable the decision to take on three children with additional needs was a simple one. The couple already had a biological son called Samuel, but started thinking about adding to their family. However, instead of adding to their […]
Did you know that approximately 40 percent of children waiting for an adoptive family have impairment or some form of special need or disability. If you think about a child with a disability, what comes to mind? Is it a picture of difficulties and obstacles? Do you imagine that you will not be able to […]
Joy and laughter and blinking hard work. That about sums up our days with our four children. Fathers day does force you to remember what it was like before they arrived but honestly, it is fast becoming a dim and distant memory.. our life BK, Before Kids, that is. When we started our adoption journey […]
