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Biography of Care Experienced People

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One Life: My Mother's Story

Kate Grenville

2016

This narrative memoir celebrates the life of best-selling and award-winning novelist Kate Grenville's mother. Nance Russell was born in 1912 in country New South Wales to working class parents who worked assiduously to move up the social ladder. As they were doing so, they often left their children with others. Nancy was in kinship care, foster care, and boarding school. She then, at the insistence of her mother, became a pharmacist, swapping that career in life for teaching, the profession she had wanted as a child.

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Children and young people in social care, and those who have left, are often subject to stigmatisation and discrimination. Being stigmatised and discriminated against can impact negatively on mental health and wellbeing not only during the care experience but often for many years after too. The project aims to contribute towards changing community attitudes towards care experienced people as a group.

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