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Torn between her African and English mums: Lola (Jaye) had an idyllic childhood - until the day social workers knocked at the door

Amanda Cable

2009

Lola Jaye was fostered as a baby by Sheila, a white English woman who gave her a loving and secure childhood, until social workers intervened at age nine and sent her to live with her Nigerian birth mother. After a traumatic year in Nigeria, Lola returned to Sheila, and despite navigating two cultures and two mothers, she built a successful life as a psychotherapist while affirming that love, not race or circumstance, defined her true family bond.

Trauma warning: This archive contains material relating to care experience including references to abuse, neglect, sexual violence, and institutional harm.

 

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. See glossary HERE


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