The adoptive mother describes the child whom they'd taken some years earlier from Ethiopia as having grown into a person with a wild look in her eyes. It was like seeing an exorcist. This is immediately Read more [...]
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Abuse in Oaklands Childrens Home or Wood End Assessment Centre?
I received a message that began “I’m shaking as I type all this as I haven't ever discussed with anyone else before.” He wrote his phone number and I called. Immediately. “Do you remember Mr Read more [...]
Letterbox Live at Southbank Centre.
Today I introduced children's authors onto stage at Southbankcentre's Imagine Festival for Letterbox Live . Letterbox Live celebrates The Letterbox Club for which I am patron. Letterbox Club gets books Read more [...]
A free Arvon holiday for a young person in care or careleaver
For young people who are in or from care a free creative holiday at Arvon in Devon. TEN PLACES LEFT. Read on then please share this post. If you are between the ages of 16 and 24 a careleaver Read more [...]
Facebook beats The iron Mountain
Every child in care (above 13) and leaving care should have their own facebook page. Anonymising children in the care system is practised more often than not to protect the institution. On that Read more [...]
She Read As She Cradled.
She Read As She Cradled You part of me Every day your history Every tomorrow your destiny Every growth your mystery Every mother wants a baby Like you Every laugh your personality Every Read more [...]
How Did The Story of Foster Children in Rotherham get into the News?
Approximately £2,000 to £2,400 per month is what the foster parents lose now they are no longer housing three children in Rotherham. Could this be an underlying reason for their going to press about Read more [...]
Christmas: The tunnel and the light.
I know alot of people but Christmas can be difficult and remains family-less. I say this because The Tope Project is a brilliant idea for care-leavers in the UK. It’s a volunteer project aiming Read more [...]
How not to lobby the care system
Many children who were in care , especially the articulate ones , are encouraged, directly or indirectly back into it, to become social workers or lobbyists. Can they improve the system for future Read more [...]
3 ways to help the young person leaving the care system.
What parent views their child between 16 and 18 as willing and able to look after themselves for the rest of their lives without ever returning for advice, financial help, a meal, to wash their Read more [...]