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Authors C Voices of the Lost Children of Greece: Oral Histories of Cold War International Adoption ➝ Goodna Girls ➝ Weaving a Web of Belonging: Developing a Trauma-Informed Culture for All Children ➝ Back to Top

Fiction featuring Care Experience 1989 Val McDermid 2022 Val McDermid's 1989 (2022) has Allie Burns investigate mischief by Big Pharma in the context of the AIDS crisis. Tucked into the background is the WWII story of a Jewish baby being given away to a Polish couple to save the child's life. In 1989, that baby's son wants to find out more about his Jewish heritage and in the process a media moghul's 'dark secret' is exposed. External Website

Authors R Roy Dwight ➝ Rale Rasic ➝ Leon Reid ➝ Back to Top

Non Fiction Lost Children of the Empire (Routledge Library Editions: The British Empire) Philip Bean & Joy Melville 1989 This is the story of an inhuman chapter in Britain's history. Between 1860 and 1930 some 130,000 children were shipped off to parts of the British Empire and forgotten. It was a cheap way of emptying homes and populating the colonies. Many were subjected to cruelty, with names changed, records withheld and brought up to believe that they were orphans. But the shocking part of the story is that it did not end in the 1930s. After World War II, some 10,000 children were transported to Australia with the last batch going as late as 1967. The book looks at the remarkable story of the Child Migrants Trust set up in 1987 to trace relations and help both sides of the family come to terms with what happened. External Website

Television Shows Baptiste 2021 British crime drama, Baptiste (2020-2021), has a boy in state care in the 2nd series. The series is set in Budapest, Hungary where Julien Baptiste (Tcheky Karyo) has gone to help the British ambassador, Emma Chambers (Fiona Shaw), find the missing members of her family. The series is about the rise of nationalism and anti-immigration in Europe, and Balazs Dobos (Atanaz Babinchak) - in foster care and then a group home - has gotten caught up in a thuggish gang who beat up, and eventually kill, Turkish immigrant shopkeeper Mehmet (Kevork Malikyan). While Balazs is complicit in the crimes against Mehmet, at least 2 of dangerous young men in the show come from privilege, respectability and a nuclear family. External Website

Films/Videos We Have a Ghost 2023 We have a Ghost (2023, Netflix) is an American comedy supernatural film with a kinship care story in the background. The film tells the story of a family of 4 who discover a ghost, Ernest (David Harbour), in the attic of their new home. Father Frank Presley (Anthony Mackie) wants to cash in on the phenomenon and starts posting video to YouTube. The family becomes famous. Youngest son Kevin Presley (Jahi Winston) befriends Ernest and discovers that the ghost has a daughter who was raised by Ernest’s in-laws. In the meantime, the CIA get involved … External Website

Children's Non-fiction Olive Morris Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara 2024 Olive was in kinship care a child when she moved from the countryside in Jamaica to live with her grandma in London in Britain. She soon realised just how tough and hard life was growing up in Britain during the 1970s. Her life changed forever when she witnessed police brutality towards a Black man and was arrested when she came to his aid. Olive became a leader within the Black British community, fighting against any kind of abuse and speaking up about racism. She never let the injustices she faced as a Black woman during that time stop her. External Website

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Writers Paul Nurse 1949- Sir Paul Maxime Nurse (born1949), is an English geneticist, former President of the Royal Society and Chief Executive and Director of the Francis Crick Institute. Paul Nurse grew up with his grandparents, thinking his grandparents were his parents. He did not find out the truth until he was in his fifties. Paul Nurse attended the University of Birmingham and went on to a career in research, including publishing extensively. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with Leland Hartwell and Tim Hunt for their discoveries of protein molecules that control the division of cells in the cell cycle. External Website

Children's Non-fiction Eleanor, Quiet No More Doreen Rappaport 2009 Eleanor Roosevelt was raised in kinship care. She lived in a privileged but stern Victorian household, with an affectionate but mostly absent father and a critical mother who made fun of her daughter's looks. Alone and lonely for much of her childhood, Eleanor found solace in books and in the life of her lively and independent mind. Her intellec External Website

Films/Videos Baby Driver 2017 Baby Driver (2017) is an American action film directed by Edgar Wright. It stars Ansel Angort as Baby (Miles), a getaway driver for criminals in Atlanta, Georgia. Baby was a child when he was orphaned; the only survivor in a car crash that killed his parents. We see Baby in the movie with his foster father, Joseph. We don’t know if Joseph was Baby’s only carer or not, but the two have a sound relationship, with Baby taking on the caring role for the deaf older man. Baby was coerced into becoming a getaway driver for criminal mastermind Doc (Kevin Spacey) and the film traces the story of how Baby extricates himself from this role. External Website

Fiction featuring Care Experience The Chess Raven Chronicles Violet Grace 2018 The Chess Raven novels are the creation of Australian wife-husband team Kasey Edwards & Christopher Scanlon under the pen name Violet Grace. In The Girl Who Fell (2018), 16-year-old Chess Raven has been in the UK state ‘care’ system since she was 3. Not far into the novel, Chess finds out she is a princess, “Queen in the Ascendant” of House Raven and part Fairy. The Girl Who Chose (2019) continues the story of Chess Raven finding her way in this new reality, including that she is expected to marry Crown Prince Victor of House Grigio. External Website

Authors D Grecce Simpliefies Citizenship Restoration ➝ Indian orphans weave award-winning movie magic ➝ Denmark says sorry to children of failed experiment ➝ Back to Top

Films/Videos The Butcher Boy (film) 2007 The Butcher Boy is based on the 1992 novel by Irish writer, Patrick McCabe. It is billed as a black comedy. It tells the story of Francis "Francie" Brady who ends up in an 'reform school' where he is sexually abused by one of the priests. When Francie returns home his long term friend has made friends with someone else, his alcoholic father dies, and Francie descends in to a fantasie life of increasing brutality. External Website

Blogs/Web Pages/Articles Ronnie Archer-Morgan shares his fostering story Ronnie Archer-Morgan 2023 Antiques Roadshow Expert Ronnie Archer-Morgan has appeared on the One Show and talked about how important his foster family were and how they saved his life. He said: “I discovered what it was like to become part of a loving family.” External Website

Films/Videos Take Care of Maya 2023 Take Care of Maya (2023) is a documentary (on Netflix) telling the story of what happened to Maya Kowalski when she was 10 and admitted to the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St Petersburg, Florida. Hospital staff expressed concern about the treatment Maya was already receiving (under medical guidance) and alerted the child protection team. Dr Sally Smith, the medical director the child protection team, decided that Maya’s mother had Munchausen syndrome by proxy. May Kowalski was then removed from the care of her parents and held in state custody (while remaining in hospital). The Kowalskis have filed a lawsuit against Johns Hopkins, with a trail set to start in September 2023. External Website

Radio & Podcast Sherlock Holmes The Rest is History 2021 In this episode, historians Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss the enduring influence of the character created by Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes has remained a popular literary character for more than a century and has influenced the detective genre considerably. External Website

Fiction by Care Experienced authors The Sunlight Pilgrims Jenni Fagan 2017 The Sunlight Pilgrims is set in a caravan park in the north of Scotland. Here. a group of people who live on the margins are waiting out an extreme winter. One character, Stella, is a transgender teenager who is terrified at the relentless march of puberty and who we see struggling to gain acceptance. External Website

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