Apr 186 minWhat about the 84%? Dr. Josie Pearse asks: Why is the murderer (almost) always adopted? I'm talking about a stereotype that I began to notice many many years...
Feb 132 minCare Experienced History MonthCare Experienced History Month takes place in April every year. Care Experienced people have been a part of societies across the world...
Nov 29, 20212 minBook Club with Sarah HilaryCare Experience & Culture book club event: Monday 6th December 10am UK / 9pm Australia Sarah Hilary will be discussing her latest novel...
Nov 22, 20213 minA Whole Life by Robert SeethalerDr Dee Michell reflects on A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler, a tender book about finding dignity and beauty in solitude. A Whole Life is...
Nov 12, 202119 minA Conversation With Malik Al NasirLetters to Gil is Malik Al Nasir’s profound coming of age memoir – the story of surviving physical and racial abuse and discovering a...
Aug 20, 20218 minThe Challenges of Writing Representations of Adoption in Fiction by Daniel Ingram BrownAs an adoptive dad, author, educator and academic, I have spent some time thinking about representations of adoption in fiction. My new...
Jul 15, 20211 minLockdown PoetryAmberleigh Care (UK) has two locations which run as formal therapeutic communities for teenage boys: deliberately structured settings...
Jun 24, 20214 minCareless by Kirsty CapesDr Dee Michell reflects on Careless, the new novel from Kirsty Capes It was wonderful to read Careless by Kirsty Capes. I’d had the book...
May 13, 20211 minLaunch of the Care Experience & Culture Digital ArchiveThe Care Experience & Culture Digital Archive Launch took place Sunday 11th April. 11.00 - Welcome Dr Dee Michell & Rosie Canning 11.15 -...
Apr 11, 20213 minDavid Akinsanya remembers his media daysI was born to a Nigerian father and English mother in Essex. After 18 months in a private foster home, my mum was forced to stop paying...
Mar 9, 20214 minRepresentation by Alan Dapré I know myself better than anyone. Or so I think. People are complicated. Life is complicated. Rather than being...