The Voice FM's Laura James talks to our CEO Ruth Marriott about the need for adopters in North Devon to come forward. She explains the need for adopters for sibling groups, children with complex health needs, older children and BAME children and why they wait the longest.

Peerlink Clip

‘It’s all about rapport, relationship’ (Peer Link Mentor) Families for Children Peer Link programme provides a supportive peer mentoring service to adopters with the aim of developing confidence and skills and awareness of the needs of their children. The wider benefits include linking into local networks of support, thereby sustaining placements a…

Hello everyone and welcome to our fourth Families for Children Podcast. Last time we talked about how adopters find their children, and left it at the point that the introductions had been completed…before we move onto the actual placement we are stepping slightly to one side to look at the children who are names as Priority children. If you would …

Robert was adopted at an earlier age. Here he talks to us about the struggles in coming to terms with being adopted and tracing his birth Mother

Hello everyone and welcome to the third Families for Children Podcast. We really hope you find these podcast episodes interesting – and useful. Please do not hesitate to contact us direct and let us know what you think – details on how to communicate with us will be at the end of each episode. Last time we looked at adoption from the perspective of…

Hello everyone and welcome to the second Families for Children Podcast. In Episode One we looked at adoption from the perspective of the children and for Episode Two we will focus on adoption from the prospective adopter side. We really hope you find these podcast episodes interesting – and useful. If you would like to find out more information abo…

Hello and welcome to the very first Families for Children Podcast. In this series of podcasts we are hoping to look at various aspects of adoption to give you a good insight into what adoption is all about. In the first 6 episodes we will aim to introduce listeners to the various stages of adoption, and these will be a good introduction to those ne…