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January, 2005 stories

January 31, 2005

Befriending scheme hopes to find support for young people
People who feel they could offer friendship and support to young people in care are being asked to join a new countywide scheme

Kids in care speak out
A talk on the importance of listening to children in care has been given to councillors by five former care home residents

January 28, 2005

Drop-in centre doors are open
An adoption charity is staging a drop-in session in Torquay on February 1

Chance for city-based families to foster teens
A woman who was a foster mum for five years and looked after seven vulnerable teenagers is encouraging others to do the same

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Looking for transracial adoptees

January 27, 2005

Saved by my foster mother
A teacher fostered by his babysitter when he was 18 months old tells how his foster family 'saved' him

Government minister to address BAAF conference on adoption support
Lord Filkin, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Children and Families, will address a one-day BAAF conference

January 26, 2005

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Appeal to contact a mother who is now trying to trace her child

Young artists aged two to 25 exhibit at Tate Britain
Artwork by young people from projects run by leading children's charity NCH is being displayed

January 25, 2005

Children and young people to benefit from charities' new IT company
The NSPCC and The Children's Society will have more money to spend on children and young people as they announced the merger of their IT facilities

January 24, 2005

Argyle gives foster parent campaign a lift
Update on an article featured on Adoption-net last week

January 20, 2005

Foster care drive backed by Argyle
Football team are to give a kick-start campaign to recruit 50 foster carers

January 19, 2005

Ali lives in hope of finding the birth-mum who left her
Ali Every, 38, is a foundling. She was abandoned in a London church as a new-born baby and has no idea who she really is. Now happily married with four children of her own, Ali lives in hope of finding the birth-mum who left her...

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Appeal to trace brother

January 18, 2005

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Have you got a story to tell?

January 17, 2005

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Appeal to trace nieces

January 14, 2005

Couple killed boy with salt
A couple found guilty of killing a three-year-old boy they were planning to adopt were jailed yesterday

January 13, 2005

Court rules for adoption
A baby girl who suffered unexplained fractures is to be adopted

January 11, 2005

Diary of an adopter
Week 28 - Hope for 2005

'Trisha Show' appeal
Have you traced your birth family?

January 10, 2005

Agency receives publicity boost
Children needing an adoptive family could be one step closer, thanks to a Plymouth business

A word of advice
"The rewards can be endless" - Reader shares adoption experiance

January 7, 2005

Adoption TV programme
Documentary revealing the emotional stories of mothers and children involved in adoption, particularly between the 1940s and 1960s

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An appeal from a newspaper journalist

Foster girl Siobhan, wins scholarship to theatre arts school
A teenager who lives with foster carers, has beaten off competition from the rest of the UK to win a place at a top school for performing arts

Lifeways Child And Family Services
Lifeways has been providing respite services to children with special needs and their families for over four years

BAAF advice about the adoption of tsunami victims
BAAF give cautionary advice to the many people who are contacting British adoption agencies offering to adopt children orphaned by the tsunami

January 6, 2005

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An appeal from a radio journalist

TV's $100,000 "sick" reunion
Adopted woman wins $100,000 by correctly guessing which of eight men was her biological father in US game show

Children need council cash
Councils should contribute to Child Trust Funds on behalf of youngsters in care, a Blairite think-tank has said

It's third time lucky!
Warwickshire Social Services has been awarded an Investors In People award for the third time

January 5, 2005

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An appeal from a radio journalist

Chris and Dee made dream of a family come true
Christopher and Geraldine Gilpin had always wanted children. When they found out they were unable to have their own, they adopted four children and now have eight grandchildren. They also provide respite care for 11 children with special needs. They told the Exeter Express and Echo why they wouldn't have it any other way.

Barnardo's aid for service crisis
Crisis-hit services for disabled children in Lincolnshire could be expanded with the help of national charity Barnardo's

January 4, 2005

Plea for 300 foster carers
Appeal launched to find homes for the 300 children currently in care in Wiltshire

Give a child a chance
Thousands of children have passed through the doors of Leicester city's fostering and adoption centre, but dozens more will need loving homes over the next year

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