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For further information contact our Publicity Co-ordinator on lizr@pactcharity.org

Woman's Hour Debate

PACT is aware of the current debate regarding foster carers smacking children for whom they are caring. We believe that many looked after children have had traumatic experiences and it is our duty to work with our foster carers to ensure that those children will not be subject to any further abusive experiences within our foster homes.

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Adoption and Fostering - one process

You want to care for children but you are unsure if you want to adopt a child or foster a child. Usually you have to make a decision because there are different procedures to follow.

However, PACT has changed all that !

We will guide you through one process so that once approved you can consider children who need adoption or fostering.

Schooling Issues

Sarah Pepys, Adoption and Fostering Services Director, has discovered two leaflets to help parents wishing to work with their children's school particularly in cases where adopted children's experiences of separation can be revealed in unexpected way.

One of the leaflets, 'Adoption, Attachment Issues and Your School', is available trhough the Post Adoption Central Support website.

View: Adoption, Attachment Issues and Your School leaflet

The second leaflet, 'Stop Wasting My Time', provides case studies of pupils with attachment issues in schools and can be purchased from Post-Adoption Central Support (PACS):

Telephone: 01259 781 545

Website: www.postadoptioncentralsupport.org

New Chief Executive

Diocesan children’s charity Parents And Children Together (PACT) has appointed a new Chief Executive, Jan Fishwick.

Jan says "My career in social work began in 1975 as the deputy matron of a 12 bed reception centre for children aged 0-18. Sometimes babies and young children would be cared for in a care home rather than a foster home, but thankfully practice has progressed a long way since then. Still working on the Wirral where I grew up, I then took up a position as an unqualified generic social worker before I qualified in social work in 1981.