Films/Videos A Little Princess (Film) 2020 A Little Princess is a 1995 American family drama film directed by Alfonso Cuarón. Set during World War I, it focuses on a young girl who is relegated to a life of servitude in a New York City boarding school by the headmistress after receiving news that her father was killed in combat. Loosely based upon the 1905 novel A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett, this adaptation was heavily influenced by the 1939 cinematic version and takes creative liberties with the original story. External Website

Films/Videos Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom 2013 This film of Nelson Mandela's life is based on his 1995 autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom. External Website

Children's Fiction Anne of Green Gables (adapted) Lucy Maud Montgomery 2013 First published in 1908, “Anne of Green Gables” is Lucy Maud Montgomery’s enduring children’s classic which chronicles the coming of age of a young orphan girl, from the fictional community of Bolingbroke, Nova Scotia. The story begins with her arrival at the Prince Edward Island farm of Miss Marilla Cuthbert and Mr. Matthew Cuthbert, siblings in their fifties and sixties, who had decided to adopt a young boy to help out on the farm. However, through a misunderstanding, the orphanage sends Anne Shirley instead. While the Cuthbert’s are at first determined to return Anne to the orphanage, after a few days they decide instead to keep her. Set in the close knit farm community of Avonlea, based on the author’s real life home on Prince Edward Island, “Anne of Green Gables” is at once both a comic and tragic tale. Read by millions, this novel begins a series of books that the author continued writing until the day she died. External Website

Radio & Podcast When Robert met Maida Robert Tickner 2020 Former politician Robert Tickner grew up in country NSW, 'showered with love' by his adoptive parents. When he began the search for his biological mum Maida in his 40s, he discovered she was living close by. External Website

Television Shows The Last of Us 2023 The Last of Us (2023) is an American post-apocalyptic drama series based on the eponymous video game franchise. Set decades after the collapse of society, the 1st season follows Joel (Pedro) as he smuggles a 14 year old teenager, Ellie (Bella Ramsay), across the United States. Ellie is immune to the fungal infection which has devasted society. Therefore, she might be the key to creating a much needed vaccine. External Website

Academic Articles Confronting intergenerational harm: Care experience, motherhood and criminal justice involvement Claire Fitzpatrick et al 2023 The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 64, Issue 2, March 2024, Pages 257–274. Care-experienced mums with criminal justice system contact may face cumulative stigma across the life course. Time to confront the intergenerational harm that care and justice system contact can create. Starting with challenging the stigma linked to care-experienced mothers in conflict with the law. And recognising structures of power they must navigate. External Website

Blogs/Web Pages/Articles I wanted to write about a care system that didn’t care very much': Kit de Waal on My Name Is Leon Kit de Waal 2020 The novelist did not set out to write a political book, but a lived experience. She ended up writing about a system that did not seem to care very much. External Website

Radio & Podcast Peter Bell and the singular quest of Kyung Ae Peter Bell 2019 Peter's Korean birth mother spent years searching for her son in America. Then she discovered he was an Australian Football League (AFL) star living in Perth. External Website

Children's Fiction Henderson's Boys Robert Muchamore 2009 Henderson's Boys is another series of young adult spy novels written by Robert Muchamore, this time about the beginning of CHERUB. Muchamore writes on his website: "The world of Henderson's Boys is rougher and more dangerous than CHERUB. Instead of drug dealers and terrorists the enemy is a brutal Nazi regime that will torture and kill young agents if they're captured. I hope you enjoy meeting Charles Henderson and the first CHERUB agents!" https://www.muchamore.com/hendersons-boys External Website

Children's Fiction The Snow Queen Hans Christian Anderson 1844 The Snow Queen is an 1844 fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a young girl named Gerda who lives with her grandmother who embarks on a perilous journey to rescue her friend Kai after he is enchanted by a splinter of a cursed mirror and taken by the Snow Queen to her icy palace, and Gerda’s love and perseverance ultimately free him from the spell. External Website

Radio & Podcast John Boyne on The Book Shelf with Ryan Tubridy The Bookshelf 2024 We have 3 of John Boyne’s novels listed on the archive because they feature Care Experienced characters, viz, The Thief of Time (2000), This House is Haunted (2013) and The Heart’s Invisible Furies (2017). In this podcast, John Boyne talks about his enthusiasm for orphans in literature, for those children who are – who have to be – in charge of their own destinies. External Website

Writers Henry Morton Stanley 1841-1904 British explorer, journalist and politician, Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904), was in kinship care, foster care and the workhouse as a child. Henry Morton Stanley was born John Rowlands. He never knew his father, who died shortly after he was born. He was abandoned by his mother, 18-year-old unmarried Elizabeth Parry, almost immediately on his birth and handed over to the care of his grandfather, Moses Parry, who lived in Denbigh, Wales. John was about 6 when his 84-year-old grandfather died in 1847. The boy was taken to live with another couple, Jenny and Richard Price, and his care paid for by two uncles. When the Prices decided the rate was too low, and the uncles declined to pay more or care for the child themselves, John Rowlands was transferred to the St Asaph Union Workhouse. When he was about 15, John left the workhouse and, after being rejected by several relatives, was taken in by a cousin, Moses Owen, a schoolmaster in Brynford. 9 months later, John went to live with his Aunt Mary who introduced him to another aunt, whose partner worked in insurance in Liverpool. The clerkship John Rowlands had hoped for in Liverpool didn’t eventuate, and eventually he signed up as a cabin boy in a ship headed for America. John Rowlands landed in New Orleans in 1859 and became Henry Morton Stanley after he became friendly with a merchant, Henry Hope Stanley. Henry Morton Stanley was a soldier and seaman before he became a journalist. He was sent by the New York Herald in 1869 to find the Scottish explorer, David Livingstone, who hadn’t been heard from since he left for Africa in 1866. Stanley became a celebrity on his return to the States. After Livingstone died in 1873, Stanley decided to continue with exploring Africa. He was financed by the New York Herald and Daily Telegraph in London and left for Lake Victoria in 1874, reporting on his trip in The Congo and the Founding of its Free State (1885). External Website

Autobiography/Memoir Cher: The Memoir, Part One 2024 American singing star & actor, Cher (b. 1946), was in an orphanage & foster care as a small child. Cheryl Sarkisian was born in El Centro, California. Her parents divorced when Cher was a baby. Cher’s mother, Georgia Pelham, who wanted to be a movie star, worked as a waitress, singer and occasionally had minor roles in Hollywood films. Because Georgia was struggling, she left Cher in an orphanage at one point. The singer has no recollection of the experience. Eventually, Georgia was able to reclaim her daughter. At another point, Cher was taken into foster care by the state. "That kind of shit has been happening to women since the beginning of time," writes Cher in the 1st of her 2 part memoir. Cher left home at age sixteen to move to Los Angeles. Soon after, in 1962, Cher met singer Salvatore “Sonny” Bono. Their biggest hit, “I Got You Babe” was released in 1965 and sold over three million copies. External Website

Fiction featuring Care Experience Girl, Woman, Other Bernardine Evaristo 2020 Winner of the Booker Prize 2019. Grace is a Victorian orphan dreaming of the mysterious African father she will never meet. Winsome is a young Windrush bride, recently arrived from Barbados. Amma is the fierce queen of her 1980s squatters' palace. Morgan, who used to be Megan, is blowing up on social media, the newest activist-influencer on the block. Twelve very different people, mostly black and female, more than a hundred years of change, and one sweeping, vibrant, glorious portrait of contemporary Britain. Bernardine Evaristo presents a gloriously new kind of history for this old country- ever-dynamic, ever-expanding and utterly irresistible. Amongst the characters are some who were in 'care'. Dominque's partner of 3 years, Nzinga, was in the American foster care system; Bummi was in kinship care as was Lennox; Grace was in a Girls' Home; and Penelope was adopted. External Website

Television Shows The Good Witch's Destiny 2013 The Good Witch's Destiny is a 2013 Canadian-American television film and Hallmark Channel original movie written by Annie Young Frisbie and directed by Craig Pryce. Destiny is the sixth film in The Good Witch film series. The film stars Catherine Bell as Cassandra "Cassie" Nightingale whose parents died when she was a child and who grows up in the US foster care system. Cassie became accustomed to travelling and moving as she was passed through foster homes. She ran away and continued travelling the world and learning about many different cultures, all the while honing her special gifts. Cassie is psychic and uses her intuition (and at times, a little magic) for good reasons. All Cassie Nightingale wants for her birthday is for her family and friends to be together. While her husband Jake suggests an intimate dinner at a fancy restaurant in their hometown of Middleton, Cassie would rather have a party at The Grey House, with all her loved ones in attendance. As Cassie's special day is approaching, her stepdaughter Lori discovers disturbing parallels between Cassie and Cassie's great aunt, nicknamed the Grey Lady, who disappeared at her own birthday party years before. With signs of a curse looming over her, it's clear that Cassie needs to conjure up more than a little magic to make things right again. Is there birthday magic in the air, or is it a birthday curse? External Website

Films/Videos The Kid (1921) 2021 The Kid is a 1921 American silent comedy-drama film written, produced, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin, and features Jackie Coogan as his foundling baby, adopted son and sidekick. This was Chaplin's first full-length film as a director (he had been a co-star in 1914's Tillie's Punctured Romance). It was a huge success, and was the second-highest-grossing film in 1921, behind The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. In 2011, The Kid was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." External Website

Television Shows Three Girls 2017 Three Girls (2017) is the harrowing story of teenaage girls being exploited for sex in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. 9 men were finally convicted of sex trafficking, raping girls, and other offences in May 2012. But that was years after sexual health worker Sarah Rowbotham (Maxine Peake) first alerted authorities - police & social services - about what was happening. We've added the 3 part series to the archive because of the theme running through it that what will happen to girl victims of sex crimes is that they are likely to a. not be protected by the state and b. have their own children taken away by the state. External Website

Children's Fiction Walk Two Moons Sharon Creech 2019 Thirteen-year-old Salamanca Tree Hiddle, proud of her country roots and the "Indian-ness in her blood," travels from Ohio to Idaho with her eccentric grandparents. Along the way, she tells them of the story of Phoebe Winterbottom, who received mysterious messages, who met a "potential lunatic," and whose mother disappeared. As Sal entertains her grandparents with Phoebe's outrageous story, her own story begins to unfold—the story of a thirteen-year-old girl whose only wish is to be reunited with her missing mother. External Website

Television Shows 60MinutesAustralia: Brave whistleblowers expose one of Australia's worst child abuse scandals 2022 In this 60MinutesAustralia program, a former worker at the Ashley Youth Detention Centre in Tasmania talks about her efforts to bring attention to the sexual abuse of young people in the centre - by staff and inmates. Another young woman talks about being groomed and abused by a netball coach for years. The efforts of these women prompted the Tasmanian government to set up in 2021 a commission of inquiry into child sexual abuse in that state - not long after the national Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2013-2017). External Website

Films/Videos Rabbit-Proof Fence 2002 Australian film exploring the removal of Aboriginal children from their families. The film is based on the on the 1996 book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence written by Doris Pilkington Garimara. External Website