The state of it : stories from the frontline of a broken care system

Wild, Chris2022

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Can we fix how we look after children in care? Government cuts, unregulated care homes, inadequate staff training - campaigner and care home manager Chris Wild has seen it all. The low standards and frequent abuse of children in care has long been a focal point of his loud message: we are failing our young people and something needs to change. Just how regulated are semi-independent care homes? How can we class young people as adults at 16? What help do we really give children after their time in care is over, left to fend for themselves? Chris delves deep into the lives of care home kids, from experiences with county lines, drugs, trafficking, knife crime, gang violence to child exploitation and sexual abuse. He shines a light on it all in the hope of changing it, telling the stories of the voiceless, the children who have been left behind, compounded by his own experiences of growing up in care.