The Family Futures Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

In this episode therapy services manager Stephen Mulley talks about the ASGSF, how to apply, the support it can offer and who is eligible.  

Please note: This episode was recorded prior to the government's proposed changes to the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF). Since recording, serious changes have been proposed that will drastically impact the children and families we support.

The proposed changes would:
- Cut funding from £5,000 to £3,000 per child, reducing access to vital therapy
- Remove match funding, a crucial lifeline for families with children facing complex trauma
- Eliminate separate funding for specialist assessments, further limiting support

These proposals threaten the stability and wellbeing of vulnerable children who have already faced immense hardship. Without this support, more families risk reaching crisis point.

These children need more support, not less.

Here’s how you can take action:
Join the protest march on May 3rd in London: Facebook Event
Sign the petition urging the government to rethink the changes: Change.org Petition

Donate to our Crisis Fund: Donate to Family Futures

The Crisis Fund helps families impacted by reduced funding continue to access the specialist therapy they rely on.

To find out more about Family Futures and what we do, head over to our website www.familyfutures.co.uk. 

Created and produced by Charlotte Mumford 

Download our free webinar here . NPP introduction – an evidence based therapy for healing trauma.

Jay Vaughan MBE and co founder of Family Futures,shares how and why the Family Futures therapy model, Neuro Physiological Psychotherapy (NPP) was developed. She explains the way a holistic therapy works so well for children and young people who have experienced trauma by working with the brain and body together.

To find out more about Family Futures and how we helpchildren, families and professionals, head over to our website ⁠www.familyfutures.co.uk

We'd love to hear from you, email your comments or questions to contact@familyfutures.co.uk

Created and produced by Charlotte Mumford 

Welcome to a special episode of pondering pods, in this episode we hear from Alan Burnell OBE, adopted person and co-founder of Family Futures.

Alan talk’s about his experience of contact as an adopted person, in a professional setting and how contact and the approach to supporting contact has changed over the last 40 years.

Our conference, Contact in Context, is a virtual event taking place on the 20th October 2023. Alan will be co-hosting workshop three with adoptive parent, Alison, the workshop will explore how you can support your child when they make contact with birth family members online.

Tickets are still available with a range of payment options, for the full programme for the day and to book your place you can visit our website.

Created and produced by Charlotte Mumford

Family Futures has 25 years’ experience supporting families with contact. Our virtual conference on the 20th October 2023 is for parents and professionals. Listen to lived experience and gain practical tools and advice to build your confidence in supporting children through contact and life story work.

Who should attend?

• Professionals who want to develop their skills and knowledge

• Parents and prospective adopters who want to understand and prepare for contact or adoption

• SGO and Kinship carers who need support in managing contact

What can you expect from the day?

• Hear from the experts, those with lived experience.

• We have a range of speakers, care experienced and adopted young people, birth parents, adopters, kinship carers and Family Futures therapeutic experts.

• Gain practical advice and frameworks on how contact can be managed, supported and improved, so that the needs of the child remain at the centre of the process.

• Explore the importance of contact from a developmental perspective

• Navigate fears around contact and complex relationships

• Network with other professionals and families

For the full programme, and tickets head over to our website - ⁠Contact in Context Conference 2023 | Family Futures⁠

Don't forget if you're busy on the day or part of the day, all ticket holders can watch on demand for the 90 days following the conference.

Created and produced by Charlotte Mumford

Welcome to the Family Futures Podcast series, selfcare session. Selfcare you can do anywhere.

This session gives you time to be still and listen, guided by Georgie Kovoor. (Music Therapist)

Like and subscribe for podcast updates, and if you’d like to know more about family futures, you can visit our website ⁠⁠www.familyfutures.co.uk⁠

Created and produced by Charlotte Mumford

Welcome to the Family Futures Podcast series, selfcare sessions. Selfcare you can do anywhere.

This session is a somatic experience body tracking session with Jay Vaughan MBE, CEO & Registered Manager.

(Dramatherapist, Theraplay Practitioner & Supervisor, Somatic Experience Practitioner & Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapist)

Like and subscribe for podcast updates, and if you’d like to know more about family futures, you can visit our website ⁠www.familyfutures.co.uk

Created and produced by Charlotte Mumford

Welcome to the Family Futures Podcast series, selfcare sessions. Selfcare you can do anywhere.

This session is a somatic experience body tracking session with Jay Vaughan MBE, CEO & Registered Manager.

(Dramatherapist, Theraplay Practitioner & Supervisor, Somatic Experience Practitioner & Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapist)

Like and subscribe for podcast updates, and if you’d like to know more about family futures, you can visit our website www.familyfutures.co.uk

Created and produced by Charlotte Mumford

Welcome to the Family Futures Podcast series, self care sessions. Self care you can do anywhere.

This is a body based session, focusing on spin mobility with Stephen Mulley Therapy Services Manager.

(Senior Clinical Specialist Dance Movement Psychotherapist)

Like and subscribe for podcast updates, and if you’d like to know more about family futures, you can visit our website ⁠⁠www.familyfutures.co.uk⁠

Created and produced by Charlotte Mumford

Welcome to the Family Futures Podcast series, selfcare sessions. Selfcare you can do anywhere.

This session is a self-compassion meditation with Pippa, Assessment and Therapy Services Coordinator.  

Like and subscribe for podcast updates, and if you’d like to know more about family futures, you can visit our website www.familyfutures.co.uk  

Created and produced by Charlotte Mumford

⁠Sign up to our FREE webinar on the 28th of November,NPP introduction, an evidence based therapy for healing trauma (12:00-13:00)

Pondering Pods, aims to provide insightful and engaging discussions on topics relating to child development, attachment, and trauma - offering greater understanding for professionals and parents. 

In this episode our podcast producer, Charlotte Mumford, sits down with Senior Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Karlien Smith-Claassens,  to talk about NPP and what it means in theory and in context.

Neuro Physiological Psychotherapy (NPP) is a therapeutic model and approach developed by Family Futures that focuses on healing the neurological, physiological and psychological harm to a child’s development caused by neglect and abusive parenting in infancy. This podcast episode outlines the science behind this approach and why it is so effective in helping children heal.

If you have a Pondering Pod topic you'd like to know more about you can email us: contact@familyfutures.co.uk.

Created and produced by Charlotte Mumford