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Care Visions Talks

Care Visions Talks

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Care Visions Talks

Care Visions Talks is a podcast series that brings together voices from across care, education, health and community support to explore what it really means to care — and to be cared for.

The series includes two strands:


Care Visions Family Talk has two hosts: Dr Linda de Caestecker and Lucy Johnston.


Dr Linda de Caestecker, former Director of Public Health and experienced paediatrician, leads warm, accessible conversations designed for parents, carers and families. Her episodes cover topics such as childhood trauma, fostering, resilience, separation and mental health, with expert guests offering practical guidance and compassionate insight.


Lucy Johnston is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster with a long-standing commitment to social affairs, health, and children’s welfare. In her episodes, she shares powerful stories about young people in care and explores the systems that shape their lives. With a background in investigative reporting, Lucy began her career at The Big Issue before moving to The Observer and later The Sunday Express, where she is Health and Social Affairs Editor. Her work has exposed neglect in care homes, failures in mental health services, and injustices faced by vulnerable children and families.


Care Visions Professional Talk is hosted by Humphrey Hawksley, award-winning author, broadcaster and former BBC foreign correspondent. These in-depth episodes are created for those working in or studying social care, health, education and related fields. Guests include thought leaders, researchers and practitioners discussing the emotional realities, challenges and evolving practices in work with children, young people and families.


Whether you're a parent, a professional, or someone passionate about care and community, Care Visions Talks offers space to listen, reflect and learn.

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  • Are We Medicalising Childhood? | Dave Clements on Special Educational Needs | Care Visions Family Talk

    Are We Medicalising Childhood? | Dave Clements on Special Educational Needs | Care Visions Family Talk
    2026/07/29
    Why are so many children struggling?One in five children is now identified as having a special educational need — a significant increase over the past decade. Are children who were previously overlooked finally being recognised, or are ordinary childhood difficulties increasingly being understood as medical conditions?In this episode of Care Visions Family Talk, Lucy speaks with Dave Clements, author of The Crisis in the Classroom, a former school governor and the father of a son diagnosed with autism and ADHD.Dave argues that several different issues have become entangled within the special educational needs system. Some children have profound and complex needs but remain stuck on waiting lists, without an appropriate school place or without the specialist support they require. At the same time, he believes other behavioural, educational, social and cultural difficulties may be too quickly understood through diagnostic labels.The conversation explores whether diagnoses have become a way for parents and schools to unlock scarce resources, and whether that has contributed to an overwhelmed and increasingly unaffordable system.Lucy and Dave discuss:• Why more children are struggling with behaviour, anxiety, attendance and learning• Whether children’s needs have increased or childhood is being described differently• The difference between identifying a difficulty and understanding its cause• ADHD, autism and the subjectivity involved in some diagnoses• Why both underdiagnosis and inappropriate labelling may exist at the same time• Education, Health and Care Plans and the competition for limited resources• Whether a rights-based system has created unintended incentives• Children with profound needs who are still being left without proper provision• Whether diagnoses have become the currency through which support is accessed• How labels can affect children’s identity, confidence and sense of agency• The development and institutionalisation of the neurodiversity movement• Whether mainstream inclusion always gives children the education they need• Why specialist provision may still be necessary for some children• Whether support should be determined by diagnosis or by a child’s ability to function• The loss of childhood freedom, independence and manageable risk• Smartphones and social media as a cause of difficulty or a symptom of wider change• Why adults and parents may feel less confident exercising authority• The growing reliance on experts, assessments and professional intervention• How schools, parents and communities could take a more active role• Why parents need to trust their own understanding of their childrenDave’s central argument is that children themselves have not fundamentally changed, but the world around them has.He believes reduced independence, weaker communities, uncertainty among adults, pressure on schools and an increasing reliance on labels have all shaped the difficulties children now face.The conversation also recognises that some children genuinely require specialist assessment, provision and external support. Dave argues that the challenge is distinguishing those needs more clearly, while helping parents, teachers and communities address other difficulties without automatically handing responsibility to a diagnosis or an expert.The Crisis in the Classroom by Dave Clements is available now.Subscribe to Care Visions Family Talk for honest conversations about parenting, childhood, education, mental health and the challenges facing families today.Care Visions Talks is a UK podcast sharing conversations on parenting, fostering, care experience and supporting families.Explore all episodes and resources:https://carevisionsfostering.co.uk/care-visions-family-talkListen and follow:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/care-visions-talks/id1819875561Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2cG6jiszfjSBvyLsFjfpreYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CareVisionsTalksFollow on social media:Instagram: https://instagram.com/carevisionstalksFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/CareVisionsTalksJoin our mailing list for new episodes, events and updates:https://carevisionsfostering.co.uk/care-visions-family-talkSubscribe to stay connected with Care Visions Talks.
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  • Family Finding and the Power of Connection | Elizabeth Wendel | Care Visions Professional Talk

    Family Finding and the Power of Connection | Elizabeth Wendel | Care Visions Professional Talk
    2026/07/15
    What happens when a child is moved away from danger but, in the process, also loses the network of relationships connecting them to their family, community, history and identity?In this episode of Professional Talk, Humphrey Hawksley speaks with Elizabeth Wendel, President and Co-founder of Pale Blue and an internationally recognised expert in Family Finding™ and Family Seeing™.Elizabeth explains the principle at the heart of Family Finding: everybody has somebody, and they can be found if we are willing to try.She challenges professionals to think beyond placement and physical safety alone, asking what may also be lost when children are separated from their original relationships. Removal may sometimes be necessary, but Elizabeth argues that foster care, adoption and residential care should not automatically require the disappearance of a young person’s family, community or “original soil”.The conversation explores how relationships help regulate the body’s response to stress. Elizabeth describes this process as buffering: the experience of having a stable person who can say, “I know this is difficult, but I am not going anywhere. We can manage it together.”She also explains the difference between Family Finding and Family Seeing. Finding involves identifying and reconnecting people within a young person’s network. Seeing begins once those people have been found: bringing complex family networks together, acknowledging generations of separation and pain, and helping families rediscover their own knowledge and capacity.Elizabeth shares the deeply personal story of Marella, a young woman she first met at 16 following two disrupted adoptions. Marella had become, in Elizabeth’s words, “lethally lonely” and had built an understanding of her life around the belief that nobody wanted her.Through Family Finding, Elizabeth and her colleagues located Marella’s mother, father and ten siblings across Romania. The process could not remove everything Marella had experienced, but it allowed her to learn her real history rather than continuing to fill the unanswered spaces herself. Their relationship later developed into what Elizabeth describes as a moral adoption, when Marella asked Elizabeth to become her mother.The discussion also considers truth-telling within child welfare. Elizabeth speaks candidly about the harm that professionals and systems can cause, even when they are acting with good intentions, and why acknowledging that harm is essential to improving practice.Danny Henderson of Care Visions joins the conversation to reflect on safeguarding, bureaucracy, moral injury and the danger of reducing complex human relationships to administrative processes. Together, they consider how professionals can protect children while still making space for family, identity, contradiction and belonging.Elizabeth Wendel, MSW, LSW, is President and Co-founder of Pale Blue. She has helped reconnect more than 10,000 young people with over 26,000 family and supportive relationships, influencing child-welfare practice internationally. She also advises governments and major healthcare organisations and writes on trauma-informed practice, organisational culture, economic justice and lifelong family connections.This is the first of two Professional Talk conversations exploring Family Finding and Family Seeing. The second features Pale Blue co-founder and Family Finding author Kevin Campbell.Content note: This episode includes discussion of disrupted adoption, family separation and suicidal distress.Care Visions Talks is a UK podcast sharing conversations on parenting, fostering, care experience and supporting families.Explore all episodes and resources:https://carevisionsfostering.co.uk/care-visions-family-talkListen and follow:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/care-visions-talks/id1819875561Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2cG6jiszfjSBvyLsFjfpreYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CareVisionsTalksFollow on social media:Instagram: https://instagram.com/carevisionstalksFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/CareVisionsTalksJoin our mailing list for new episodes, events and updates:https://carevisionsfostering.co.uk/care-visions-family-talkSubscribe to stay connected with Care Visions Talks.
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  • Behaviour Is Communication | Sarah Naish on Therapeutic Parenting | Care Visions Family Talk

    Behaviour Is Communication | Sarah Naish on Therapeutic Parenting | Care Visions Family Talk
    2026/07/01

    What is a child really trying to say through difficult behaviour?
    In this episode of Family Talk, Lucy Johnston speaks with Sarah Naish about therapeutic parenting, childhood trauma, boundaries, emotional regulation and why behaviour is often a sign of an unmet need.

    Sarah explains why standard parenting approaches do not always work for children who have experienced trauma, and why children may struggle to link cause and effect when they are living in survival mode. She also explores the difference between gentle parenting and therapeutic parenting, the importance of firm but fair boundaries, and why carers need to understand the child behind the behaviour.

    The conversation also covers screens, smartphones, social media, misdiagnosis, ADHD, autism, attachment, compassion fatigue and why Sarah prefers the phrase “essential maintenance” instead of self-care.

    A practical and honest conversation for parents, foster carers, adoptive parents, kinship carers, teachers, social workers and anyone supporting children with complex needs.

    Family Talk is part of Care Visions Talks, exploring the challenges of raising children in today’s world.


    Care Visions Talks is a UK podcast sharing conversations on parenting, fostering, care experience and supporting families.

    Explore all episodes and resources:
    https://carevisionsfostering.co.uk/care-visions-family-talk

    Listen and follow:

    Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/care-visions-talks/id1819875561

    Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2cG6jiszfjSBvyLsFjfpre

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CareVisionsTalks

    Follow on social media:

    Instagram: https://instagram.com/carevisionstalks

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CareVisionsTalks

    Join our mailing list for new episodes, events and updates:
    https://carevisionsfostering.co.uk/care-visions-family-talk

    Subscribe to stay connected with Care Visions Talks.
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