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8 Oct 2024
In our small area of Manny where we reside theres 8xCare Experianced/Adopted young people with no school offer.
8 in just 1 tiny post code area
refused access to a school. Some for years due to early life experiences. Imagine what that equates to
when we look at that nationally
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4 Oct 2024
Care Experienced YP- never had access to high school-LA has no schl offer. It’s now time to think about collage. Ambition to work in TV lighting. Have oodles of ‘real’ TV work experience, great TV credits. Collage-you’re not welcome, you won’t get anywhere without 4 GCSE’s in TV
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18 Sep 2024
Profit in the Children's Care system should never have been allowed to fester. Yet it's happening day after day, bankrupting LA's.....£20k a week for one child. How? The outcomes for the child @£20k a week will be so low its enough to make you weep bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crlr…
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9 Nov 2023
Salute @Channel4 Full out shock factor....packed to the ceiling we got twerking, gyrating and all sorts of carrying on in skid marked undies......bold as brass and we love it!! Change Climate: What Are Those With Power Doing About It? youtu.be/nf2BoHg1rFI?feature…
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21 Oct 2023
We're constantly working on stories about Adoption/ Care System/Failed Edu. But sometimes a left-field approach is needed. We are off to Dutch Design Week,a hub for groundbreaking ideas. Pumped to be inspired by design industry disruptors & rule-breakers
ddw.nl/en/home
ALT Logo for Dutch Design Week 2023
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20 Oct 2023
A stunning doc sensitively told. Wishing you lots of luck with this. Well worth voting for.
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20 Oct 2023
Adopted Children and Change. A place where 'Change' signals the arrival of terror
#newblogpost #AdoptedChildren #LifeInMotion wix.to/SuEdY6i
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16 Oct 2023
Childrens services illegally send boy, 13, to live in caravan 200 miles from his family. This is the reality of many kids in care whose 'state parent' changes every 12hrs. If your parent changed every 12hrs would you be disruptive? mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/so…
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12 Oct 2023
2nd that. Great shout out Lucy! Will be placing an order too. Will drop you a message too with a catch up
12 Oct 2023
*Adds to reading list immediately* - cannot wait for this one 📖
Want to support the #CareExperienced community? Buy and read our books to delve into our experiences, buy our art, have us represented at all levels and spread our important voices as far as they can go ✨
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12 Oct 2023
Great work from @FASDNETUK fighting for direct access to assessment pathways for FASD for young people who come into care through no fault of their own. Blocking or gatekeeping assessment access creates lifelong catastrophic consequences.
12 Oct 2023
Around 70% of people diagnosed with #FASD have been through #fostercare.
This #FosterCarerAppreciationDay, we appreciate our foster carers for learning how to recognise children with possible FASD. You are changing the futures of so many children. @teamfostering #fostercarers
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4 Oct 2023
"Why are you always so sad, look at this." That line catches you seconds in. In a time when we worry so much about young male teenagers, this brings so much joy. Jam-packed with community, friendship, and love they share between them youtu.be/QGvVJOaEtz4?si=j8EG…
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26 Sep 2023
Pushing the boundaries again, Lucy Barnes fantastic offer to help with LAW scholarship applications. Awesome opportunity for someone who would struggle financially otherwise. Repping the unrepresented. Salute Lucy!!
26 Sep 2023
If anyone in my network is thinking of a career at the Bar & is from a disadvantaged background, please DM me if you’d like help with your scholarship application.
My scholarship meant that I could pay for Bar fees (I otherwise couldn’t). It’s a really important opportunity
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26 Sep 2023
Holds breath, wondering if anyone involved is connecting the dots that @Gov promoted; school punitive behaviour management policies will need to change rapidly to accommodate any child displaying trauma/attachment problems in the classroom. We wait 👀 & hope 🙏 they do
26 Sep 2023
Well well well. schoolsweek.co.uk/home-offic…
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24 Sep 2023
Once again @DavidLammy giving voice to Care Experienced people. Would love to discuss with you the shocking numbers of young CE /Adopted young people being failed in education/justice system due to #FASD @FatimaWh1tbread Wishing you well with your campaign #FatimasCampaign
24 Sep 2023
It was a pleasure to speak to @DavidLammy on @LBC about a cause so close to my heart… announcing “Fatima’s Campaign” to help improve lives in and after the care system for young people in the UK 🌟🇬🇧
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24 Sep 2023
Adoption's flipping hard for everyone involved. Our children can live with multiple families before moving in with adopted parents. Encourage them to ask questions, find their voice, have their own agency. Its not always straightforward road to a safe home. #AdoptionJourney
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18 Sep 2023
20% reduction in new EHCP. Why does it have to be this hard.
17 Sep 2023
Seems research from SNJ’s @CaptainK77 has reached the commons
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16 Sep 2023
You can’t help but applaud the work that @ccwild79 continues to do for Care Experienced People. May your battle for the rights of CEP come to fruition very soon. Keep going Chris! Salute 🫡
15 Sep 2023
In the last few months, I have heard from hundreds of young people speaking about the negative impact being in care has had on their lives. It's been heartbreaking. Young people crying in front of civil servants and politicians, begging them to listen and help by making care experience a protected characteristic. It could change the system once and for all, and I am not interested in so-called professionals debating it when young people are dying, suffering with severe mental health, forced into criminal gangs, made homeless, just because of a broken system that doesn't value the lives of our most vulnerable children and young people in the system. No more talking. Make care experience a protected characteristic.#changeiscoming.
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Life In Motion retweeted
14 Sep 2023
Although #FASD is a complex & variable spectrum with 428 co-occurring conditions, it also seems to have a key common characteristic.
This is disordered threat processing and resulting dysregulated defensive behaviours.
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13 Sep 2023
WOW!!! Congratulations @FasdSalford once again on leading and pushing the boundaries of #FASD Awareness. This has the potential to be a game changer.
13 Sep 2023
In search of novel ways to identify FASD, our team is so excited to welcome @thisisarijit, Dr Nigel Bassat, Dr Neil Aiton and NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care. The team will tackle research on detecting prenatal alcohol exposure. Read more here: hub.salford.ac.uk/fasd/2023/…
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13 Sep 2023
Beautifully told story about living with #FASD a condition caused by an alcohol-exposed pregnancy. So many outstanding young children have needs not met in education or are forced to leave education altogether. We salute Shushma and Layla
11 Sep 2023
This #FASD Awareness month we are happy to launch this uplifting FASD Case Study #3 - Shushma & Layla's Story youtu.be/_oIi6XavJIA? Please do share to do your bit. si=KJxBFTbEf6oM5i6Q via @YouTube #homeschooling #ADOPTION #fosteringsaveslives
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