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Fiction featuring Care Experience Political Suicide Michael Palmer 2014 When high-society doctor Gary McHugh believes he will be arrested for murder, he turns to old friend Dr Lou Welcome for help. Lou Welcome's best friend and AA sponsor is a care experienced character. Cap Duncan is a former professional boxer and now runs a gym, training Lou and Lou's 13 year old daughter, Emily. Cap doesn't feature heavily in the story but is there in pivotal moments. External Website

Actors Ingrid Bergman Ingrid Bergman (29 August 1915 – 29 August 1982) was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films, television movies, and plays. She was in kinship care as a teenager. Ingrid was only 3 years old when her mother died. Justus raised his daughter for the next 9 years with the help of his sister Ellen—whom Ingrid called Mama—and, being a photographer—he also owned and ran a camera shop—took many photos and home movies of his daughter. “During her childhood” writes David Smith, “Bergman may have been the most photographed person in Sweden.” Ingrid was 12 when her father died of stomach cancer. When her father died, Ingrid was left in the care of Aunt Ellen for a few months, until her aunt’s death 9 months later. The teenager then went to live with an uncle. She won many accolades, including three Academy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, four Golden Globe Awards, and a BAFTA Award. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Bergman as the fourth-greatest female screen legend of Classic Hollywood Cinema. External Website

Television Shows Neigbours 2020 The long-running Australian soap opera, Neighbours (1985), includes a foster care story in recent years. When the Neighbours team decided to include a new storyline around foster care and adoption, they consulted with Dr Stacy Blyth of Western Sydney University. The new storyline developed into a new character, 13-year-old Emmett Donaldson (Ezra Justin) who goes into foster care with same-sex couple David (Takaya Honda) and Aaron (Matt Wilson). External Website

Films/Videos Mosquito Squadron 1969 Mosquito Squadron is a 1969 British war film made by Oakmont Productions, directed by Boris Sagal and starring David McCallum. The raid echoes Operation Jericho, a combined RAF–Maquis raid which freed French prisoners from Amiens jail in which the Mosquitos took part. David "Scotty" Scott (David Buck) is shot down during a low-level bombing raid on a V-1 launching site. Scott and his navigator/bomb-aimer are believed killed. Following the raid, his wingman and friend, then-Flight Lieutenant (later insignia Royal Canadian Air Force squadron leader) Quint Munroe (David McCallum) comforts Scott's wife, Beth (Suzanne Neve), and a romance soon develops, rekindling one that they had had years earlier. Scotty and Quint were more than comrades; they were brothers in arms, brought together by a shared upbringing after Munroe was orphaned. External Website

Authors L Hand Me Down ➝ Down and Out: Surviving the Homelessness Crisis ➝ Lost in the System ➝ Family Secrets: A Writer's Search for His Parents and His Past ➝ A Chip Off What Block? ➝ Back to Top

Authors E Life After Care: From Lost Cause to MBE ➝ Born To Survive: You Can't Break A Broken heart ➝ Love Child ➝ The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano ( ➝ Back to Top

Biography of Care Experienced People Jane Austen at Home: A Biography Lucy Worsley 2018 In this biography, we find out that Jane Austen (1775-1817) was in foster care as a small child. Cassandra Austen apparently weaned her babies as soon as possible and then sent them to a foster mother (probably a Mrs Littleworth) who cared for them until they were walking and talking. The children’s parents visited the children daily, and sometimes the infants returned to the rectory for a visit too. But their home was in foster care. Lucy Worsley argues there were benefits to this arrangement in that all the children survived. However, the bonds between the children and their mother were weakened so much that her children barely noticed when Mrs Austen was absent from the rectory. Because Jane Austen also went to boarding school, Worsley estimates she spent nearly 5 of her first 11 years away from home. There are other Care Experienced family members too, as Jane Austen’s father was an orphan, her brother George lived in foster care all his childhood, and her brother Edward was adopted by the Knight family when he was 16. External Website

Academic Articles Incarnations of the Orphan Nina Auerbach 1975 For decades Nina Auerbach's article on representations of the orphan was one of the few on the topic. She writes: "For it is an easy sentimental mistake to think of the orphan as fragile. He seems composed of alternate layers of glass and steel, and sends out sting rays at those who try to adopt him. He first appears in the eighteen century as a slyly potent underground figure...But even the Romantic waif is brimming with a certain equivocal energy...His solitude eneregizes him as a visionary artist, and silent schemer, his appearance of winsome fragility feeding into his pwoer of survival." Auerbach's analysis includes Moll Flanders, Jane Eyre, Becky Sharp, Healthcliff and Pip of Great Expectations External Website

Writers Walter Scott 1771-1832 Sir Walter Scott was a Scottish historical novelist, poet, playwright, and historian. Walter Scott was born to a solicitor and the daughter of a doctor in Edinburgh in 1771. At 18 months, Walter contracted infantile paralysis (or polio) and was lame for the rest of his life. Because of his ill health, the boy was sent to live with his paternal grandparents at Sandknowe Farm, in the hope that being out of the city would improve his health. He stayed there until he began school. Scott is respected for his lively historical romances and the other genres he inaugurated, for example, the ‘nautical novel’. He died in 1832 External Website

Films/Videos Something to be proud of - a film by Kinship 2021 “Something to be proud of” (2021) is a short, animated film, using balls of knitting wool, to tell the story of one child’s experience of ending up in kinship care. The film was made by UK organisation, Kinship, in conjunction with production company My Pockets. External Website

News - broadcast, print, internet, magazine articles Hutchinson Heinemann signs Fagan's 'extraordinary' memoir in two-book deal Jenni Fagan 2022 Hutchinson Heinemann has signed Ootlin, a memoir by writer Jenni Fagan, in a two-book deal. Publishing director Ailah Ahmed acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Tracy Bohan at The Wylie Agency. The memoir will be published in hardback, e-book and audio on 24th August 2023. External Website

Films/Videos The Secret of Roan Inish 1994 The Secret of Roan Inish (1994) is set in 1946 and centred on the Irish folktales of selkies, or seals which can shed their skins and become human. Some believe the Coneely family has selkie blood running through it. Fiona Coneely (Jeni Courtney) is about 10 years old and sent to live with her paternal grandparents after her mother dies and her father is struggling to care for her. She listens to the old stories and believes she says her long lost young brother being cared for by seals. External Website

Television Shows Diff'rent Strokes 1978 Diff’rent Strokes (1978-1985) is an American sitcom. The series is about the adoption by a white millionaire, Phillip Drummond (Conrad Bain), of 2 orphaned African American boys, Willis & Arnold Jackson (Todd Bridges and Gary Coleman) from Harlem. With the newly formed family (which includes Drummond’s daughter, Kimberly (Dana Plato) living in a New York penthouse, the show focuses on family values, such as Arnold and Willis's relationship with their adoptive father. It also addresses serious topics such as racism, drug abuse, alcoholism, and child abuse. As Arnold Jackson, Gary Coleman was usually at the centre of the show’s funny scenes and he went on to become a child star. External Website

Fiction featuring Care Experience Crow Lake Mary Lawson 2002 Crow Lake (2002) by Canadian Mary Lawson tells the story of a family of 4 siblings after the death of their parents. Luke, the oldest of the 4, gives up a plan to become a teacher so he can stay at home and care for his youngest siblings, while the 2nd oldest, Matt, gets to finish school. The narrator is Kate, 7 when her parents died and now a successful academic. She thinks she's outgrown her siblings but ... External Website

Fiction featuring Care Experience The Likeness Tana French 2008 The Likeness (2008) is the 2nd novel by Tana French which includes the character of Cassie Maddox. The story is narrated by Cassie who was raised in kinship care after her parents were killed in a car accident when she was 5. Cassie takes on an undercover job investigating a home in which 5 young university students have been living as a family. 2 of the men are estranged from their families, 1 is an orphan. The 4th resident is a woman who grew up in foster care. The 5th young person, another woman, has been killed. This story, along with In The Woods, was adapted for the 2019 television series, Dublin Murders. External Website

Radio & Podcast The Unfinished Prince Stuff the British Stole (podcast) 2023 In this episode of Stuff the British Stole, Australian Marc Fennell tells the story of Prince Alemayehu (1861-1879) who was born in Ethiopia and died at age 18 in England. After Alemayehu’s father, Emperor Twodros II of Ethiopia died by suicide after his defeat by the British, 7 year old Alemayehu was taken to Britain, under the care of Captain Tristram Speedy. In England and while staying at Speedy’s home, the young prince was introduced to Queen Victoria. He spent some time with Speedy and his wife in India but the British government decided he should be educated in England. Guests include Andrew Heavens who has written The Prince and The Plunder, and Lemn Sissay whose own life intersects with that of Alamayu’s. External Website

Television Shows Significant Others 2022 Significant Others (2022) is a 6 part Australian drama featuring an adoptee character. Kenneth Moraleda plays the role of Den, the adopted brother of Sarah (Jacqueline McKenzie) a single mother who is missing. Den and his sisters, Ursula (Rachael Blake) and Claire (Alison Bell) step in to help out with the care of their teenage niece and nephew, who, by the end of the series are in the kinship care of Ursula. External Website

Television Shows Silent Witness 2021 Silent Witness is a British crime drama television series produced by the BBC, which focuses on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes. First broadcast in 1996, the series was created by Nigel McCrery, a former murder squad detective based in Nottingham. (He later went on to create the series New Tricks, with writer Roy Mitchell.) Twenty-three series of Silent Witness have been broadcast since 1996. Amanda Burton starred as primary character Dr. Sam Ryan before leaving the show during the eighth series. Since her departure the series has featured an ensemble cast, which consisted of Emilia Fox, David Caves, Liz Carr and Richard Lintern until the end of series 23, when Carr and Lintern both departed. Series 6. Episode 41-42 'Tell No Tales' includes a story about a man who grew up in a children's home. Series 18: Episodes 155-156 has a story of DI Luke Nelson who was in kinship care and a young women desperate to retrieve the child she had at age 14, and Series 18 Episodes 157-158 explores mistakes made by the child protection authorities. In Series 22, Episodes 5&6 a skilled tatooist who is an adoptee is murdered. Series 23, Episodes 7 & 8 Hope and Series 24, Episodes 3 & 4 Bad Love concern the lengths some people will go to form families, including by abducting children. In Series 24, Episodes 9 & 10 there are two young Black British boxers caught up in the illegal "bare knuckle" boxing scene were in foster care as kids. External Website

Blogs/Web Pages/Articles Most Popular Orphan Girl Movies and TV Shows IMDb A listing by IMDb of the most popular movies and televisions with an 'orphan-girl'. External Website