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Blogs/Web Pages/Articles Growing up in care Áine Kelly 2016 Áine Kelly describes how she began to access healthcare again after humiliating childhood experiences, including being removed from her parents by the police and being placed in the care of the state. External Website

Blogs/Web Pages/Articles Kirsty Capes | 'It’s important to have stories about the care experience that are positive' | The Bookseller Charlotte Eyre 2021 An interview with Kirsty Capes about her new novel, Careless, and the importance of positive representations of Care Experienced people. External Website

Blogs/Web Pages/Articles Real Life Super Heroes Dee Michell 2018 Inspired by the work of Ethiopian-British poet, writer and performer, Lemn Sissay this blog is a collection of short-form biographies of people who have experienced disruption in their childhoods. Each person spent some time away from their birth families, whether that was organised formally by state intervention, or informally by friends and family. Each biography also includes reference to each person's adult life. External Website

Behind the Scenes François Truffaut ​ ​ François Roland Truffaut (1932 – 1984) was a French film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film critic. Truffaut was adopted by his future step-father, but spent much of his time until his grandmother died living with his grandmother. The boy was eight when he began living with his parents. Truffaut is widely regarded as one of the founders of the French New Wave. In a career lasting over a quarter of a century, he remains an icon of the French film industry, having worked on over 25 films. Truffaut's film The 400 Blows is a defining film of the French New Wave movement, and has four sequels. Truffaut's 1973 film Day for Night earned him critical acclaim and several accolades, including the BAFTA Award for Best Film and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. External Website

Autobiography/Memoir Ways of the Wicked Witch Deidre Michell 2012 Deidre Michell is a Forgotten Australian, one of six siblings taken into State Care during the 1960s, In this book Deidre describes the healing process which enabled her to move through the grief of losing her family and into a new, more fulfilling stage of her life. External Website

Blogs/Web Pages/Articles An open letter to Long Lost Family from an adoptee Anon ​ What Long Lost Family doesn’t tell us about adoption search and reunion - and beyond. External Website

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Blogs/Web Pages/Articles ‘12 Mighty Orphans’ film to premiere in Fort Worth, TX in 2020 | Fort Worth Star-Telegram Stefan Stevenson 2019 The film “12 Mighty Orphans,” which is based on Jim Dent’s book about a high school football team made up of orphans at Fort Worth’s iconic Masonic Home in the 1930s, will have an authentic Fort Worth look. The filmmakers insisted on it. External Website

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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

Actors Paul Barber ​ ​ Patrick Barber, known by the stage name Paul Barber (born 18 March 1951), is an English actor from Liverpool. Barber's mother died from tuberculosis when he was 7. He was then taken into care. His mother was from Middlesbrough. His father, originally from Sierra Leone, died when Paul (or Paddy as he was then known) and his brothers Brian, Paul, Mike and sisters Claudette and Lorraine were very young. Whilst he was in care, he was abused both physically and mentally. He notes that he has suffered like others, but channeled his emotions into acting. In a career spanning more than 45 years, he is best known for playing Denzil in Only Fools and Horses and Horse in The Full Monty. External Website

Biography of Care Experienced People The Life and Work of Muhammad Yahiya Emerick 2002 Muhammad, the founder of Islam, grew up in the Arabian Pensinula. He was orphaned at the age of 6 and then lived in kinship care, first with his grandfather and then with an uncle. In this biography, Emerick explores Muhammad's childhood as well as his prophetic mission from the age of 40. External Website

Blogs/Web Pages/Articles Care Experienced History Month Care Experienced History Month 2020 April 2021 was the first-ever Care Experienced History Month. The webite includes a wealth of information including blogs on Global Perspectives of the History of Care before 1800, a history of care around the world, stories about Care Experienced people like writers JRR Tolkien and Maya Angelou, reoordings of lectures given throughout the month, and a host of other resources. External Website

Blogs/Web Pages/Articles I left care at 15 and soon went to borstal. Young people can’t just be abandoned | David Akinsanya David Akinsanya (Left care at 15) 2015 The children’s commissioner says vulnerable youngsters should stay in care until they’re 25 – here David writes about the importance of having a mentor and how that human support can set young people on the right path, for good. External Website

Autobiography/Memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Jeanette Winterson 2012 This is Jeanette's version of the story of a terraced house in Accrington, an adopted child, and the thwarted giantess Mrs Winterson. It was a cover story, a painful past written over and repainted. It was a story of survival.This book is that story's the silent twin. It is full of hurt and humour and a fierce love of life. It is about the pursuit of happiness, about lessons in love, the search for a mother and a journey into madness and out again. External Website

Blogs/Web Pages/Articles Commission of Inquiry into the Tasmanian Government's Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Institutional Settings. ​ 2023 The Commission of Inquiry into the Tasmanian Government's responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Institutional Settings was established on 15 March 2021. The final report was delivered to the Tasmanian Parliament on 26th September 2023. The focus of the inquiry was on the Tasmanian Government’s current (rather than historical) responses to allegations – and incidents – of child sexual abuse in institutions run by the Tasmanian Government (eg public schools and hospitals, youth detention centres) as well as in non-government institutions which receive government funding to provide services on behalf of the government (eg out of home care). The final 3500 page report containing 191 recommendations includes many changes that need to be made to protect children and young people from harm. External Website

Autobiography/Memoir Not Forgotten Samilya Bjelic 2021 Not Forgotten: They called me Number 10 at Neekol Orphanage is the story of Samilya Bjelic who in 1954 was left by her recent migrant parents at St Joseph's Neerkol orphanage, near Rockhampton, Queensland. The book was written with the help of Anne Moorhouse, a psychologist. Samilya was at the orphanage - well known now as a place where nuns regularly inflicted brutal punishments on children - from age 2 for 8 years. She was then returned to her mother where the trauma continued. Samilya became friends with Anne and began recounting her story. By telling Samilya's story in Not Forgotten, Anne says she is speaking for others too who have felt silenced by horrific experiences. External Website

Blogs/Web Pages/Articles GOM Central Elm Place 2018 GOM Central is a resource for young South Australians who have been in what's called Out of Home care. While there were already some services available - counselling, advocacy etc - through Relationships Austalia South Australia's Post Care Services, young people wanted something more, something that was "multimedia and online focussed." At GOM Central there are podcasts and videos, budgeting tools and links to useful services. The decision to call the site "GOM" (Guardian of the Minister) Central results from many of these young people having been called "GOM kids" in negative way. Therefore, for this project they're pushing back against stigma and negative stereotypes and embracing the name. External Website

Autobiography/Memoir Tortured Victoria 2015 The truth about one of Britain's most sadistic mothers by the daughter who survived her reign of terror. As a child, Victoria Spry was brutally beaten, neglected and starved by the woman she called Mummy. To the outside world Eunice Spry was a devoted parent, but behind closed doors she was an evil tyrant. Instead of protecting, loving and caring for Victoria, she forced bleach and urine down her throat, knocked out her teeth, tied her up naked and made her live in squalor. It took eighteen years of heartache and despair before she found the courage to expose her mum. Due to severe mental health problems from the abuse Victoria took her own life in 2020, aged just 35 years old. External Website

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