Year Three: Being a Looked After Child

My significant memories from this year. I was 8 years old, my foster carer took me to see a doctor that helped children, (my thinking at the time) I know know she was a child psychologist. I obviously didn’t really understand what was happening but I can remember...

Year Two: All Change

My second year in care, I was now 7 years old, and in year two at school, this blog is about the things that I can remember and were significant to me from that year. This was the year I call all change. I was still at my old school, but from where I was now living it...

Year One: And Now The End Is Near

As I approach the age of 18, my foster care journey is coming to an end. In my next few blogs, I would like to write about my journey from the year. I was taken into care right up to the present and then on to my future plans. Year one- How it all started. I remember...

Self Reflection

What is self reflection? To me, it is the ability to evaluate one’s cognitive, emotional, and behavioural process. Self reflection is important for everyone but as looked after children it is really important for us to understand how to self reflect and why it is...

Levels of Engagement

I had to complete a piece of work on my A level Geography course recently about levels of engagement which I would like to share with you all as this also got me thinking about looked after children and what levels of engagement we need and are important to us. I have...

How Can We Change Statistics?

For looked after children, statistics show us that because of our background we are less likely to be successful in various aspects of our lives compared to our peers, with the main areas being education, mental and physical health, and healthy relationships. Taking...
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