Warning: Some of this blog contains material readers may find upsetting Letters to Gil is Malik Al Nasir’s profound coming of age memoir – the story of surviving physical and racial abuse and discovering a sense of self-worth under the wing of the great artist, poet and civil rights activist Gil Scott-Heron. Born in Liverpool, Malik was taken into care at the age of nine after his seafaring father became paralysed. He would spend his adolescence in a system that proved violen

Daniel Ingram Brown is an adoptive dad, author, educator and academic. He says, I have spent some time thinking about representations of...

Amberleigh Care (UK) has two locations which run as formal therapeutic communities for teenage boys: deliberately structured settings...

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...

The Care Experience & Culture Digital Archive Launch took place Sunday 11th April. 11.00 - Welcome Dr Dee Michell & Rosie Canning 11.15 -...

By David Akinsanya I was born to a Nigerian father and English mother in Essex. After 18 months in a private foster home, my mum was...

I know myself better than anyone. Or so I think. People are complicated. Life is complicated. Rather than being...