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SHARE YOUR STORY

Share Your Story?

Have you adopted back your child? Have you, as an adult, been adopted back? Are you a "former adoptee"? Please share your

story with others. Email it to scarlett@adoptingback.com…

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Share your ideas with Cabinet Ministers

The Rt Hon Francis Maude MP, Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General has written to the VCS inviting them to comment and pass

examples of good practice and ideas to the Office for Civil Society. To

find out more and how to submit your thoughts click read more.

OPEN LETTER TO THE VOLUNTARY, COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL ENTERPRISE SECTORS

Dear all,

As you know the Coalition government…

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WITCH HUNT THE FILM

Sean Penn produced and narrated ‘Witch Hunt’ a film about the Satanic

Ritual Abuse Miscarriages of Justice in Bakersfield, California. The

DVD can now be purchased very economically or it can be downloaded from

itunes, and a portion of the proceeds is being donated to the Northern

California Innocence Project (NCIP).

Penn, S. 2008 Witch Hunt. Trailer.…

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FAMILY COMPLAIN ABOUT THE WAY A VULNERABLE YOUNG MAN WAS SNATCHED FROM HIS FOSTER CARERS

http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/uk/family+condemn+aposbarbaricapos+council+over+removal/3735877

MY THOUGHTS

Barbaric and uncaring, are we really living in the 21st century for this kind of thing to happen?

Another recent case highlights the way Adult Services deal with their

clients and families after an elderly lady… Continue

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CHANNEL 4 NEWS-SHORTAGE OF FOSTER CARERS

http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/uk/chronic+shortage+of+foster....

It is not rocket science, with the alarmingly high rise in Care Proceeding, comes the more need for more foster carers, Social Services will not use the kincare clause in many cases, highlighted in the

Public Law Guidelines,if this was the case immediate family members

could care for children, saving the…

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CHANNEL 4 NEWS FROM LAST YEAR

http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/society/uturn+on+children+in+care/3099992

Value-the care system.

My thoughts.

Placing children in childrens homes instead of using foster carers is the wrong thing to do, children could languish in these institutions

for years,and it seems like the care system is like going back to the

dark days of the… Continue

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FOSTER CARE AND PAYMENTS-THANK YOU LYNNE WRENNELL

http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/ojs/index.php/journal/issue/current

Here are a few leads:

What is the financial support?

You will receive a generous weekly payment, with substantial tax free

allowances, whilst you have children/young people in your care. You

will also receive two weeks paid respite per year.…

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Eva Organisation for Women-tell your story

Eva Organisation for Women

E.O.W is currently hosting a prize giveaway on its website. If you have

an empowering, an encouraging and or an overcoming of challenges story

or stories relating to your gender as a woman, or your roles as a

daughter, sister, mother, friend, employee and citizen then you could

be in with a chance of winning one of four great prizes, including

publishing your work through different media outlets.

1st prize: £100… Continue

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AVRILS RESEARCH

Hello Alison

Still in the process of researching fostering allowances, I 've just

discovered, via the information that Cambridgeshire sent me, that

natural parents can be expected to contribute towards fostering

allowances.

Have asked a few Councils

'what help they give low income parents to try to prevent their

children being given away to more financially affluent foster parents

who then get paid substantial non-means tested… Continue

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THE SHAMEFUL STORIES THAT CANNOT BE TOLD

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/7920221/The-shameful-stories-that-cant-be-told.html.

Value-media.

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Domestic Violence Integrated Response Project (DVIRP)

The following two courses are available:

‘Violence and Abuse' -How it affects our mental health
Domestic Violence Tier 2- Risk Assessment, Practice, Law and the IDVA/MARAC Process

Course 1 - ‘Violence and Abuse' -How it affects our mental health

Full Day course

Date: 25 August 2010

Venue: Ramada…

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SAFARI NEWS

http://home.vicnet.net.au/~safari/forms/StandingOrderForm.pdf…

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PRINCESS DIANA AN ADVOCATE WITH LOVE

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PRINCESS DIANA AN ADVOCATE WITH LOVE

Value-queen of causes.

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EXPERT WITNESES

Professor Terence Stephenson, president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, is worried about being shot at when he puts his head above the parapet and gives expert evidence for the

prosecution,…

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GUIDE FOR PEEDIATRICIANS-CHILD PROTECTION WORK

Lord Justice Thorpe, an appeal court judge and deputy head of family justice, will chair the group convened by the UK regulator to review guidance for paediatricians doing child protection work.

Paediatricians on the expert group include Terence Stephenson, president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Rosalyn Proofs, child protection officer for the royal college, and…

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