Al coates
@alcoates.bsky.social
SWer, Host of the Adoption and Fostering Podcast, Trainer, CyclistRunner, Dad, Adopter, exFC. All my own thoughts from my pretty little head ⭐️Churchill Fellow⭐️
Susie Richardson is researching FASD in the prison population. Susie has a broad range of experience and from running prisons and working with care leavers she has seen the need for a better understanding of the impact and prevalence of FASD in those communities. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Episode 232 - FASD awareness with PhD researcher Susie Richardson
Podcast Episode · The Adoption and Fostering Podcast · 12 September · 45min
podcasts.apple.com
Better Me Better Us Episode 38 - People change @BMBUltd podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Better Me Better Us Episode 38 - People change
Podcast Episode · The Adoption and Fostering Podcast · 14 July · 27min
podcasts.apple.com
WwF - Rachel Braverman - 'unhelpful help' What do we do when those we look to for help make things worse? in this episode we hear what does help.
WwF - Rachel Braverman - 'unhelpful help'
Podcast Episode · The Adoption and Fostering Podcast · 30 May · 41min
podcasts.apple.com
Episode 226 - CPV and Practitioner Anxiety + FASD Ireland Conf www.podbean.com/eas/pb-bqwcc... or Apple Podcasts here- podcasts.apple.com/.../the.../i.... #CPV #CCVAB #AFCCA See less
Episode 226 - CPV and Practitioner Anxiety + FASD Ireland Conf
Hello and welcome to this episode, it's action packed and we reunite after Scott's many travels! We start with a consideration about the recent FASD Ireland conference and the radio documentary that…
podbean.com
Episode 226 - CPV and Practitioner Anxiety + FASD Ireland Conf podcasts.apple.com/.../the.../i.... #CPV #CCVAB #AFCCA See less
Episode 226 - CPV and Practitioner Anxiety + FASD Ireland Conf
Hello and welcome to this episode, it's action packed and we reunite after Scott's many travels! We start with a consideration about the recent FASD Ireland conference and the radio documentary that…
podbean.com
It's Foster Care Fortnight and we've a voice of fostering from the US. Corey is a foster dad with a passion to foster and support boys. He shares his experiences with children and a system that will resonate with UK carers. #Fostering #FosterCareFortnight podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Converstations - US Foster Carer Corey
Podcast Episode · The Adoption and Fostering Podcast · 16 May · 36min
podcasts.apple.com
Some amazing speakers booked for the #CPA Reframing Professional Practice conference in May including @carriegrant.bsky.social @rutternik.bsky.social @alcoates.bsky.social Still some tickets available
We’re excited to be building momentum towards the Child to Parent Abuse Conference – Reframing Professional Practice, taking place on the 15th of May 2026 in London. Over the coming weeks, we’ll be…...
We’re excited to be building momentum towards the Child to Parent Abuse Conference – Reframing Professional Practice, taking place on the 15th of May 2026 in London. Over the coming weeks, we’ll be ...
linkedin.com
Better Me Better Us Episode 35 - Positive Dosing www.podbean.com/eas/pb-7mkrb...
Better Me Better Us Episode 35 - Positive Dosing
In this episode we are talking about positive dosing - the small, consistent, positive interactions that help children who have experienced trauma, loss, or instability begin to build self-worth, trus...
podbean.com
Holding the line between safeguarding and flexibility can be a balance. But I do feel like we need to look at the NMSs and how we manage allegations. #Fostering #Fostercare www.communitycare.co.uk/content/news...
DfE drive to cut fostering 'bureaucracy' sparks safeguarding concerns - Community Care
Broad welcome from social care bodies for government plan to increase foster care place numbers by 10,000 by 2029
communitycare.co.uk
Episode 234 - Adoption Announcement, ASGSF and Foster Care isn't a Job! www.podbean.com/eas/pb-n4xvc...
Episode 234 - Adoption Announcement, ASGSF and Foster Care isn't a Job!
Hello and welcome to the A&F podcast with Scott Casson-Rennie AMBII and Al Coates. This was recorded the day of the Children's Minister's announcement on the Adoption & Special Guardianship S...
podbean.com
Keeping an eye on this, 100 year from the first UK legislation around adoption we see the ground shifting beneath us. The UK Supreme Court to consider whether adoption orders can be set-aside on the basis of welfare grounds www.charlesrussellspeechlys.com/en/insights/...
The UK Supreme Court to consider whether adoption orders can be set-aside on the basis of welfare grounds
The UK Supreme Court will sit today (Wednesday 4 February) to hear the case of X and Y (Children: Adoption Order: Setting Aside)...
charlesrussellspeechlys.com
It's a truism but if parents and carers are doing ok then children will do ok. but if parents/carers aren't then it's likely children aren't. 'When supporting children with trauma, we often forget foster carers' - Community Care www.communitycare.co.uk/content/news...
'When supporting children with trauma, we often forget foster carers' - Community Care
An experienced social worker explains why supporting foster carers is key to helping children with trauma
communitycare.co.uk
Better Me Better Us Episode 32 - Own It Episode out now! www.podbean.com/eas/pb-7ifsd...
Better Me Better Us Episode 32 - Own It
In this episode we explore the responsibility adults and professionals carry to own their behaviours, words, and actions, especially when working with children. From everyday interactions to moments o...
podbean.com
Good to hear @alcoates.bsky.social on BBC radio 4 World At One on this subject
Al coates@alcoates.bsky.social · 10mo agoFree - Managing challenging behaviour with children in kinship care workshop The first session in January is full so I advise snapping up your spot asap! #CPV #CCVAB #AFCCA kinship.org.uk/support-and-...
Free - Managing challenging behaviour with children in kinship care workshop The first session in January is full so I advise snapping up your spot asap! #CPV #CCVAB #AFCCA kinship.org.uk/support-and-...
Managing challenging behaviour with children in kinship care workshop
This free workshop will give you helpful information about managing challenging behavior and how to deal with it sensitively.
kinship.org.uk
A really good read from Dr Maude Champagne for parents and carers who no longer live with children who have challenging and aggressive behaviour #CCVAB #Parentingfromadistance #AFCCA #CPV Recovery When Your Child who is aggressive no Longer Lives at Home www.maudechampagne.com/blog/recover...
Recovery When Your Child who is aggressive no Longer Lives at Home: A Journey Few Speak About
maudechampagne.com
A really good read from Dr Maude Champagne for parents and carers who no longer live with children who have challenging and aggressive behaviour #CCVAB #Parentingfromadistance #AFCCA #CPV Recovery When Your Child who is aggressive no Longer Lives at Home www.maudechampagne.com/blog/recover...
Recovery When Your Child who is aggressive no Longer Lives at Home: A Journey Few Speak About
maudechampagne.com
ICO promises legal action over ‘traumatic’ UK care-record access
ICO promises legal action over ‘traumatic’ UK care-record access
Information regulator reminds council leaders of need for compassion when releasing files on childhood care
theguardian.com
Better Me Better Us Ep 31 - Back to basics www.podbean.com/eas/pb-5shn4...
Better Me Better Us Ep 31 - Back to basics
In this episode, we explore the importance of stripping everything back to the basics and showing up on a truly human level. It’s these foundations, warmth, consistency, repair and presence, that crea...
podbean.com
Episode 221 - Adoption Crisis and More We catch up with the events of the week with #Adoption being in the news and #Fostering stats sneaking under the radar. #AdoptionPodcast www.podbean.com/eas/pb-9hehz...
Episode 221 - Adoption Crisis and More
Hello and welcome to this episode of the adoption and fostering podcast. With the wide ranging coverage in the news of the UK's adoption crisis we focus in on that in this episode as well as the respo...
podbean.com
“Farage has suggested that it’s inconceivable that anyone could recall such events of more than four decades ago. I would simply ask: can a victim of such abuse ever forget?…I recognise his walk every time I see it on TV as that same walk that used to approach me” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
I’ll never forget the look of hatred Nigel Farage had for me at school, simply for existing
The Reform UK leader doubts people can recall their abuse from years ago. I’ve never forgotten his – it felt malicious
theguardian.com
Rotherham to overhaul foster care after death of Marcia Grant www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Rotherham to overhaul foster care after death of Marcia Grant
Marcia Grant died after a 12-year-old boy she was looking after reversed a car into her.
bbc.co.uk
In this Podcast we unpack the Adoption Forum conference looking at maintaining family links in adoption. #Adoption #AdoptionPodcast podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Conference Report - The Adoption Forum
Podcast Episode · The Adoption and Fostering Podcast · 29/11/2025 · 26m
podcasts.apple.com
In this Podcast we unpack the Adoption Forum conference looking at maintaining family links in adoption. adoptionandfostering.podbean.com/e/conference...
Conference Report - The Adoption Forum | The Adoption and Fostering Podcast
On the 19th November Al was invited to attend a conference in London organised by The Adoption Forum and this is his on the hoof podcast. Their goal is to bridge law, policy, and lived experience and ...
adoptionandfostering.podbean.com
In this week's Adoption and Fostering Postcast I speak to former foster carer Amelie, she share her experience of allegations and catastrophic implications for her household. #Fostering #Fostercare #podcast t.co/z5w3CfdxIX
https://www.podbean.com/pw/pbblog-4rg9e-158fdb
t.co
The Adoption and Fostering Podcast This week I speak to former foster carer Amelie, she share her experience of allegations and catastrophic implications for her household. #Fostering #Fostercare #Podcast www.podbean.com/pw/pbblog-4r...
The Adoption and Fostering Podcast | Al Coates & Scott Casson-Rennie
Conversation & discussion on contemporary Adoption & Fostering
podbean.com
Today we are in Cavan delivering Introduction to Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) in person! Our thanks to Teach Oscail Family Resource Centre for inviting us back to present this training again.
