Today we are publishing The POTATO Group’s full organisational response to the Department for Education’s consultation, Adoption Support that Works for All.It draws on our 2025 research, Far, Far Beyond the Adoption Order, alongside Department-commissioned evidence and the lived experience shared across our community.Our response sets out serious concerns about the direction of reform, particularly the risk that specialist therapeutic support is replaced by lower-cost universal provision that do

By Euan Preston, Chair, The POTATO Group16 February 2026As chair of The POTATO Group, I have written an open letter to the Minister for Children and Families regarding the Adoption Support that Works ...

By Euan Preston, Chair, The POTATO Group16 February 2026As chair of The POTATO Group, I have written an open letter to the Minister for Children and Families regarding the Adoption Support that Works for All consultation and the future of the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund. The full text is published below.Josh MacAlister MPMinister for Children and FamiliesDepartment for Education16th February 2026Open letter: Adoption Support that Works for All consultation and the future of th

The government has launched a consultation on the future of adoption and kinship support, setting out proposals that will shape what replaces the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund from 20...

On 2 December 2025, BBC File on Four released Adoption: The Blame Game, an investigation into lies, blame and systemic gaslighting within adoption in the UK. Presented by Judith Moritz, it drew on wha...

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Conversation & discussion on contemporary Adoption & Fostering

In May 2024, The Potato Group, in partnership with The Belay Foundation, hosted a unique conference for professionals, presenting the lived experiences of families caring for traumatised adopted children.The title of the conference, Far, Far Beyond the Adoption Order: Lessons from Lives Impacted by Trauma, referenced Julie Selwyn’s seminal study for the Department for Education (DfE), Beyond the Adoption Order: Challenges, Interventions and Adoption Disruption (Selwyn et al., 2014). The conferen

The Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF) is a vital source of therapeutic support for some of our most vulnerable children, teenagers and young adults. For many families, ASGSF funded therapy is the only source of effective therapeutic intervention.Following uncertainty regarding the continuation of the fund, which caused distress and anxiety to thousands of families across England and Wales, the government announced on 14 April that the Fair Access Limit (FAL), representing th