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Sport Milan Galic Milan Galic Yugoslavian professional soccer player, Milan Galic (1938-2014), was in an orphanage as a child. Milan Galic is mentioned by Rale Rasic as being in the Belgrade orphanage, Centralni Lazaret, with him. Rasic writes: "The orphanage ended up producing many remarkable and successful people, including scientists, engineers and, of course, footballers. I shared a room with a guy called Milan Galic who, at 16, became one of the youngest players to play in the second division with Proleter. He captained the Yugoslav team that won the gold medal at the 1960 Rome Olympics and eventually captained the full senior side" (p. 20). According to Wikipedia, Milan Galic …”played for 4 clubs [and] represented Yugoslavia internationally…and worked for the Football Association of Yugoslavia” after he had finished playing. External Website

Writers George Sand 1804-1876 Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin (1804 – 1876), best known by her pen name George Sand, was a French novelist, memoirist, and journalist. Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin was born in Paris and known as Aurore in her family. Her parents were Captain Maurice Francois Dupin, from an aristocratic family, and Antoinette Sophie-Victoire Delaborde, who grew up in an impoverished working-class family, was orphaned at age 14, and supported herself through sex-work. Maurice died when Aurore was 4 and his mother, Mme Dupin de Francueil, gave Aurore’s mother, Sophie, a pension to stay away while she raised the child at her Nohant estate in the south-west of France. Having read Rousseau, Mme Dupin allowed her granddaughter free reign on the country estate, while also insisting she learn ‘proper’ French. When her grandmother decided that Aurore at age 13 had become too wild, she was sent off to live in a Paris convent. Aurore’s grandmother died when Aurore was 17. 12 months later she married Casimir Dudevant. In 1831, Aurore left her husband and moved to Paris. She began publishing articles and a novel with novelist Jules Sandeau under the name Jules Sand. A year later, she published her first solo novel, Indiana, under the name George Sand. One of the more popular writers in Europe in her lifetime, being more renowned than both Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac in England in the 1830s and 1840s, Sand is recognised as one of the most notable writers of the European Romantic era. External Website

Fiction featuring Care Experience Born in a Burial Gown M.W. Craven 2020 The only witness to the dumping of a body is Care Experienced character Darren Ackers, a drug addicted. Without him it is likely the killer would never have been caught. External Website

Academic Books & Book Chapters The Stolen Generations. The removal of Aboriginal children in New South Wales 1883 to 1969 Peter Read 1981 In 1981, the Department of Aboriginal Affairs published a ground-breaking paper on the Stolen Generations. The paper, written by Peter Read, was among the first attempts to document the devastatioin of forcibly removing Aboriginal children in Australia from their parents. This reprint of that paper was published to help educate all Australians about this history and the intergenerational legacy of the Stolen Generations. Documents the disruption of families when children were forcibly removed from their homes and sent to state or church-run institutions, boarding homes, residential schools, and adoption programs. The author concludes that it is a story of attempted genocide. External Website

News - broadcast, print, internet, magazine articles Border officers saw a couple behaving oddly with a baby - and uncovered a mystery BBC 2025 In this BBC article, Sanchia Berg and Tara Mewawalla tell the story of Lucy, a child whose identity as at 26 April this year, was not known. The child, according to the article, “seems to have been born in rural Nigeria in September 2022, and given to an orphanage when she was just three days old.” She has been in social care in Manchester since her “parents” were apprehended by Border Force. She is in her 3rd foster home since arriving in the UK. Raphael Ossai claimed to be the Lucy’s father, and Oluwakemi Olasanoye, the girl’s mother. “The court heard that on 20 June 2023, Ossai and Olasanoye unlawfully brought Lucy to the UK from Lagos, via Addis Ababa. Olasanoye had a visa to work in the UK and agreed to travel with Ossai and Lucy…In this BBC article, Sanchia Berg and Tara Mewawalla tell the story of Lucy, a child whose identity as at 26 April this year, was not known. The child, according to the article, “seems to have been born in rural Nigeria in September 2022, and given to an orphanage when she was just three days old.” She has been in social care in Manchester since her “parents” were apprehended by Border Force. She is in her 3rd foster home since arriving in the UK. Raphael Ossai claimed to be the Lucy’s father, and Oluwakemi Olasanoye, the girl’s mother. “The court heard that on 20 June 2023, Ossai and Olasanoye unlawfully brought Lucy to the UK from Lagos, via Addis Ababa. Olasanoye had a visa to work in the UK and agreed to travel with Ossai and Lucy… Ossai and Olasanoye, pleaded guilty to immigration offences and were sentenced to 18 months in prison followed by deportation.” External Website

Television Shows Dalgliesh 2021 Dalgliesh (2021) is a British police procedural based on the Adam Dalgliesh novels by PD James. Bertie Carvel stars as Dalgliesh, an inscrutable detective who is also a successful poet. The series ran for 2 years with a total of 12 episodes. Every 2 episodes is the adaptation of one James’ book. There are 4 Care Experienced Characters across the 12 episodes. In “Shroud for a Nightingale” (Ep 1 & 2), a victim of murder was in kinship care. The woman who runs the nursing school in which the story takes place describes herself as being in ‘loco parentis’ to the girls training there. In “Death of an Expert Witness” (Ep 7 & 8), a relative of a murdered person and the partner of another victim was in care as a child. In “A Certain Justice (Ep 9 & 10), a ne’er do well young man was in care as a child. In “The Murder Room” (Ep 11 & 12), a victim of murder has grown up thinking he was adopted, whereas his ‘adoptive’ father is his biological father. External Website

Actors Freddie Bartholomew American child actor, Freddie Bartholomew (1924-1992) was born in Middlesex, London. By the age of 3, he was living with his paternal grandparents and primarily being cared for by his Aunt Cissie. Aunt Cissie took Freddie to Hollywood when the boy was 10. He became an overnight sensation playing the title role in David Copperfield (1934). His popularity increased with other films such as Swiss Family Robinson (1940) and Tom Brown’s School Days (1940). At one point, he was – after Shirley Temple – the highest paid child star in Hollywood. During the 1950s, Freddie Bartholomew moved to New York and worked in advertising. External Website

Fiction featuring Care Experience How to Measure a Cow Margaret Forster 2016 Tara Fraser has a secret. Desperate to escape herself and her past, she changes her name, packs up her London home and moves to a town in the North of England where she knows no one. But one of her new neighbours, Nancy, is intrigued by her. And as hard as Tara tries to distance herself, she starts to drop her guard. Tara is under no illusions about her own faults. She knows she has a temper and can lash out. Her foster parents had tried to give her all the love and attention she needed. But she had been a difficult child and a very problematic adolescent. Then a letter arrives. An old friend wants to meet up. Struggling to keep her old life at bay, Tara soon discovers the dangers of fighting the past. External Website

Fiction by Care Experienced authors Kemosha of the Caribbean Alex Wheatle 2022 The YA adventure story of 15 year old Kemosha and her younger brother who have lived their whole lives in slavery. External Website

News - broadcast, print, internet, magazine articles Barrister and Chair of Independent Enquiry into Child Sexual Abuse Ivor Frank 2015 Ivor Frank is a barrister with four decades of experience in child protection, human rights and family law. He was brought up in care himself and has represented and campaigned for children in care as a member of the parliamentary groups Looked After Children and Care Leavers and Care Leavers' Voice. Ivor has advised the Home Office on the issues of forced marriages and international child abduction. He has served as a Trustee of Buttle (now Buttle UK) which makes grants to vulnerable children and young people in need. He now serves as a Trustee of the Rees Foundation which has similar objectives. External Website

Biography of Care Experienced People Hegel's Owl. The Life of Bernard Smith Sheridan Palmer 2016 Hegel's Owl is a history of ideas as well as a biography of Bernard Smith who, from humble beginnings in foster care, became known as the 'father' of art history in Australia. External Website

Fiction featuring Care Experience Mister God, This is Anna Fynn 1974 Mister God, This is Anna (1974) Fynn – pseudonym for Sydney Hopkins – tells the story of a 19 year old (16 in some versions) Fynn who befriends and takes in a foundling, 3 year old Anna. Fynn takes Anna home to Mum who “collected waifs and strays, cats, dogs, frogs, people”. There had been 18-year-old Carol who had stayed for 2 years and “Danny from Canada, who stayed about three years”. Mister God, This is Anna is filled with religious themes and Anna, as Rhik Samadder wrote in The Guardian 20 April 2020, “is an instinctive theologian”. Anna asks many questions as she and Flynn are out and about in London, questions that lead her to decide she knows God. External Website

Non Fiction Welcome to My Country: A Therapist's Memoir of Madness Lauren Slater 1997 Lauren Slater, a writer who is a young therapist, takes us on a personal and professional journey in this memoir about her work with mental and emotional illness. The territory of the mind and of madness can seem a foreign, even frightening place-until you read Welcome to My Country. She closes the distance between "us" and "them," transporting us into the country of Lenny, Moxi, Oscar, and Marie. She lets us watch as she interacts with and strives to understand patients suffering from mental and emotional distress-the schizophrenic, the depressed, the suicidal. As the young psychologist responds to, reflects on, and re-creates her interactions with the inner realities of the dispossessed, she moves us to a deeper understanding of the complexities of the human mind and spirit. In the final chapter, the psychologist confronts herself, when she is asked to treat a young woman, bulimic and suicidal, who is on the same ward where Slater herself was once such a patient. Slater was in foster care. External Website

Fiction featuring Care Experience Robert B. Parker's Lullaby Ace Atkins 2013 When fourteen-year-old Mattie Sullivan - who is living in kinship care - asks Spenser to look into her mother’s murder, he’s not convinced by her claim that the wrong man was convicted. Mattie is street-smart, wise beyond her years, and now left to care for her younger siblings and an alcoholic grandmother in a dilapidated apartment in South Boston. But her need for closure and her determination to make things right hits Spenser where he lives. As Spenser becomes more involved, he thinks that Mattie may be onto something after all. And he’s going to need the help of his friend Hawk to find peace for Mattie—a job that’s more dangerous than he ever thought. External Website

Blogs/Web Pages/Articles I was one of Britain's last foundlings Joanna Moorhead 2014 This article is about Tom Mackenzie who spent most of his childhood in the Foundling Hospital, a charity run on strict Victorian values that brought up children born outside marriage. He was one of the last to be admitted – and one of the last to leave. Tom, at the time of the article, was running a keycutting business in Plymouth. External Website

Fiction featuring Care Experience The Book Thief (novel) Markus Zusak 2007 Markus Zusak's unforgettable story is about the ability of books to feed the soul. When Death has a story to tell, you listen. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement. I External Website

Biography of Care Experienced People Agatha Christie Lucy Worsley 2022 Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman (2022) by British historian Lucy Worsley is a portrait of the famous crime writer’s life. Included in the biography is something of the story of Agatha Christie’s mother who was in kinship care as a child. After her grandfather died, Christie’s grandmother was struggling to raise her children on an army pension. So, writes Worsley, rather than have her family lose their “middle-class status” she “sent the nine-year old Clara to live with her sister Margaret” (Worsley, 11). Worsley goes on to say that Clara never forgot that her mother gave her away and the knowledge impacted negatively on her wellbeing and the way she raised Agatha. External Website

Films/Videos The Inheritance (film) 1997 A girl who was orphaned by a baby in Italy is taken in by a wealthy family living in Massachusetts, USA. On her foster father's death, Edith discovers that she is the daughter of his brother and has inherited the estate on which she has been living and working as a paid companion. External Website

Films/Videos A Thousand and One 2023 A Thousand and One is a 2023 American drama film written and directed by A.V. Rockwell in her feature directorial debut. The film stars Teyana Taylor, Will Catlett, Josiah Cross, Aven Courtney, and Aaron Kingsley Adetola. Set in the 1990s and 2000s, it follows a single mother, convicted thief, Inez de la Paz who returns to the Brooklyn neighborhood of her former shelter, where she sees her son, Terry, with other children from his foster home out on the street. When Terry is hospitalized after trying to escape from the home, Inez secretly visits him. He tells her about his earliest memory: of Inez abandoning him on a street corner when he was two years old - triggering Inez’s own memories of a childhood in the care system. She decides to kidnap her son out of the foster care system to raise him herself, as the two struggle with life in a constantly changing New York City. It had its world premiere at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2023, and won the Grand Jury Prize. External Website

Actors Billy Connolly Billy Connolly (b. 1942), was born in Glasgow. When he was 3 and his sister, Florence, 4, their mother abandoned the children, living the children at home on their own. Neighbours heard the cries of the chilren and took them to an orphanage. At the time, the children's father, William Connolly, was serving with the Royal Air Force in Burma. Williams 2 unmarried sisters, Margaret and Mona, collected the children from the orphanage and and too them in. After the war, William Connolly moved in with his sisters and his children. He sexually abused his son, and Mona physically beat Billy on a daily basis. Billy left school at 15, eventually supporting himself through folk singing before he moved to comedy and became one of the most influential stand-up comedians of all time. He retired from comedy in 2018. As an actor, Billy Connolly has appeared in numerous films between 1993 and 2014 and he was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Actor for Mrs Brown (1997). He has received numerous awards, including a BAFTA Lifetime Achievement Award (2003) and honorary doctorates from the University of Glasgow (2001), Nottingham Trent University (2010) and Strathclyde (2017). In 2017, Billy Connolly was knighted “for services to entertainment and charity.” External Website