Care Experienced Activists
Care Experience & Culture are adding a new genre an ‘ Activists ’ section and we’re Introducing Care Experienced Activist Paris...
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Jun 273 min
The Quiet You Carry by Nikki Barthelmess
Hi, I’m Liam, today's book reviewer, and a 26-year-old working at a property law firm. Growing up in foster and kinship care has made me...
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May 304 min
Care Experienced Activists
Care Experience & Culture are adding a new genre an ‘Activists’ section and first off we’re Introducing Care Experienced Activist...
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Jul 30, 202311 min
Historical Perspectives on the Stigma of Children in Care
By Dr. Annie Skinner During the latter decades of the nineteenth-century, poor families faced with crises due to poverty, ill-health or...
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Jun 16, 20233 min
Cuckoo in the Nest by Fran Hill
Review by Carol Sampson Fran Hill’s experiences in foster care have often influenced her writing. Cuckoo in the Nest arose from her...
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Jan 18, 20236 min
The Bone People by Keri Hulme
Dr Dee Michell reflects on The Bone People. In 1965, Irish writer John McGahern’s novel , The Dark , was banned in Ireland because of...
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Oct 25, 20222 min
Foundling Book Club Event
Care Experience & Culture Foundling Book Club Event: Via Zoom 11th November 2022 and live at the Foundling Museum , London 11am UK...
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Jun 14, 20222 min
Diversity & Children's Fiction
Care Experience & Culture book club event: Via Zoom 25th June 2022 10am UK time / 6.30pm Adelaide / 7.00pm Melbourne Email:...
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May 20, 20224 min
Examining the Past and Challenging the Future
Lindsay Bamfield looks back as well as reflecting on the last couple of Care Experience & Culture book club events Perhaps the reason one...
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Apr 18, 20226 min
What 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...
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Feb 13, 20222 min
Care Experienced History Month
Care Experienced History Month takes place in April every year. Care Experienced people have been a part of societies across the world...
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Nov 29, 20212 min
Book Club
Care Experience & Culture book club event: Monday 6th December 10am UK / 9pm Australia Sarah Hilary will be discussing her latest novel...
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Nov 23, 20213 min
A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler
Dr Dee Michell reflects on A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler, a tender book about finding dignity and beauty in solitude. A Whole Life ...
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Nov 12, 202119 min
A Conversation With Malik Al Nasir
Letters to Gil is Malik Al Nasir’s profound coming of age memoir – the story of surviving physical and racial abuse and discovering a...
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Aug 20, 20218 min
The Challenges of Writing Representations of Adoption in Fiction
Daniel Ingram Brown is an adoptive dad, author, educator and academic. He says, I have spent some time thinking about representations of...
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Jul 16, 20211 min
Lockdown Poetry
Amberleigh Care (UK) has two locations which run as formal therapeutic communities for teenage boys: deliberately structured settings...
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Jun 25, 20214 min
Careless by Kirsty Capes
Dr 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...
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May 13, 20211 min
Launch of the Care Experience & Culture Digital Archive
The Care Experience & Culture Digital Archive Launch took place Sunday 11th April. 11.00 - Welcome Dr Dee Michell & Rosie Canning 11.15 -...
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Apr 11, 20213 min
David Akinsanya remembers his media days
I 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...
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Mar 9, 20214 min
Representation by Alan Dapré
I know myself better than anyone. Or so I think. People are complicated. Life is complicated. Rather than being...
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