SAAM - Scottish Adult Adoptee Movement
@ScottishAAM
Campaigning for #AdopteeRights throughout the #UK 4 nations Amplifying the Voice of Lived Experience. “Nothing About Us, Without Us” : [email protected]
Scottish Adult Adoptee Movement represents the only Scottish grassroots organisation representing the rights, interest & wellbeing of adult adoptees Scotland-wide Yesterday members of the SAAM team had the pleasure of meeting @NatalieDon_ CYPM and her colleagues @scotgov 🧵
@NatalieDon_ I can’t believe you are going to debate #adotpees rights Because why would you not want people #righttoknow of the legal process done to you? Why would you never want them to be part to their own order?
Had he survived #SeanRossAbbey #MotherAndBabyHome Eugene O’Brien would be 65 years old now. His death record dated 20/9/60 recalls choking while feeding on “probably porridge”. He was then five months old. 💔😢 #RIP #LostBabies Where is he buried? 1090 babies died in SR Abbey
'I'm so disappointed that my country is treating its honest, hardworking people the way that it has' 92 year old Betty Brown, the oldest victim of the Post Office's Horizon IT scandal, told #BBCBreakfast of her anger at still waiting for her case to be settled
Highly recommended You can now watch Reckoning with The Primal Wound on YouTube for free! Thank you Rebecca youtu.be/vaKss4Obm2c?si…
Data breach USA, no less worrying when it happened in Scotland wired.com/story/adoption…
Abuse in adoption placements? Non violent restraints in adotpion placements? And diagnoses for adoptee? We would be keen to know more @CoramBAAF
📣 ‘Adoption & Fostering’ journal: July issue (Vol 49, Issue 2) now available! The latest edition covers topics including allegations of abuse against #fostercarers, non-violent resistance training and the diagnosis of neurodevelopmental conditions. corambaaf.org.uk/updates/adopti…
THE FACTS — In a Nutshell: Unless I give permission or a court forces it, NOBODY not my adoptive parents, birth parents, advocates, or social workers can access my care or adoption files. They are MINE. I have to legally request them. If you don’t think I should have that right
I was intreated to see the UK government discussing referrals into the NHS when discussing the care of adoptees recently. SAAM - Scottish Adult Adoptee Movement have made such recommendations and will be watching closely in England if this will be a further development that could
Today, Adoption UK, alongside @kinshipcharity, @CVAA_UK, @barnardos, @FamilyRightsGp and @Coram, wrote to the Education Secretary adoptionuk.org/asgsf-campaign, highlighting the impact changes to the ASGSF were having on families
Call to Actuin #USA 🙌 Please do get in touch, you only have till 7/31. #adopteevoices #adopteerights #Adoptionreform
#California #adopteevoices youtu.be/erHylYLHqXg
The strange case of Susan and the baby that wasn’t hers businessday.ng/news/article/t…
#adopteevoices
#adopteevoices 🧵 UK adoptees shout loud when Adoption UK blocks and silences us. But when Labour councillor Karen Constantine — author of “Taken” — is the one blocking adoptees… where’s the outrage? Lets look at the facts