Theresa Tallis

Theresa has been a qualified social worker for 40 yrs. She has worked mainly in Child Protection and family Placement work- Fostering and Adoption. She has also worked in a Voluntary Organisation providing Advocacy Services for children in care. Theresa has managed projects for the (then) DfES to provide Advocacy services for children with special educational needs in residential schools.

Theresa has an M.Phil for original research into the relationship between children in care and their families (Lancaster 1994)  In her present job she mainly concentrates on finding adoptive families for children between the ages of 5-10, i.e. older children.

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Sunday 2 November 2008, 11.00am Henry Moore Gallery
Adopting orthodoxies



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