I am running the Yorkshire Marathon in October to raise money for the Care Leavers Association Care Leavers' Assoc and Settle Settle 🏃‍♀️ If you are able to do so, please consider sponsoring me! 🙏😊givewheel.com/fundraising/87…

🧠 Want to help shape the future for care leavers? Check out our Research Opportunities page for ways to join studies for care experienced people. From surveys to focus groups, your voice matters — and it’s easy to take part. Find out more: buff.ly/PSLGgbf

Now Gordon Brown has joined the chorus of voices calling on the UK Government to apologise for its role in forced post-war adoptions for the children of unmarried mothers. Sarah Corker has the full story of his significant intervention here: itv.com/news/2025-08-2…

There’s some big news coming out on Hopedene, which is horrific and worthy of our attention. Katherine Waugh wrote us a sobering piece on Mother and Baby Homes, focusing on Hopedene, a few years ago. It’s worthy of a read if you can. northeastheritagelibrary.co.uk/post/mother-an…

The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous is part of The Rutshire Chronicles (1985-2023) series of romantic novels. Set in fictional Rutshire, characters recur across the series repeatedly, incl upper-class MP Rupert Campbell-Black & wife Taggie O’Hara who adopt 2 S.American children.

The Story of the Pink Cat: An Exploration of the Ways Care-Experienced People Navigate Inheritance by Delyth Edwards & Rosie Canning careexperienceandculture.com/master/the-sto…

Anyone familiar with my interest in the history of children in care will appreciate my excitement at being sent this. Much of this history is lying unused in archives all over the world. I'll be at this library in September so expect more tweets on this: libguides.mnhs.org/adoption/osps

Jenny Hartley’s Charles Dickens and the House of Fallen Women explores Urania Cottage, a refuge Dickens helped run for “fallen” girls, training them as servants before sending many to colonies. careexperienceandculture.com/master/charles…

We have a new section in the CE&C archive: 🌟Activists🌟 Amazing people who grew up in care and went on to fight against injustice. See more here: careexperienceandculture.com/genre/activists

Did you know Eddie Murphy (with his older brother, Charlie) were put into a foster home with a Ms Jenkins for approximately 18 months: careexperienceandculture.com/master/eddie-m…

Alert! Alert! In response to NHS England’s desire for 30% cuts "Integrated Care Boards" (ICBs) are proposing a 50% cut to the Designated Nurse roles for Looked After Children. These roles are the lifeblood of advocacy and protection. Reducing them means silencing a key

Tchin, a Narragansett and Blackfeet artist, grew up in foster care in Virginia and Rhode Island. Facing hardship and discrimination, he turned resilience into art—becoming a jeweler, storyteller, and Cartier collaborator. themagicofstorytelling.com/about

I will looking forward to hosting this. There's no specific topic but regulars know that I've taken to bunging in some history at the start to get us going. We will then range over whatever subjects we want that are related in some way to our experience of growing up in care.

Listening to BBC Woman's Hour this morning from 10.00-11.00 which includes adoptee experiences of forced adoption in the three decades after the Second World War. This follows those from mothers featured on Friday's programme. Listen live or back here: bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00…

Has this government gone completely mad? WTF are they doing? Do they think this will do anything other than further put minority groups at risk of the tide of increasing, open bigotry?

Fatima Whitbread (b.1961), born Fatima Vedad, grew up in care before being fostered at 14. She became a world champion javelin thrower, Olympic medalist, and the first Briton to set a throwing world record. Autobiography 'Survivor' was published 2012. shorturl.at/hocND

Russell Lewis (b. 1963, London) is a TV writer & former child actor, raised by his grandmother through adoption. His lived experience of “dark secrets” informs Endeavour. He debuted in Young Winston (1972). careexperienceandculture.com/master/russell…

Watching Long Lost Family #longlostfamily and want to know more about the role of the state in the mother and baby home scandal - the institutional pipeline of postwar forced adoption for the children of unmarried mothers - then follow this thread. 🧵

Sheila Bell Rattray (1925-1997) began life being dropped at her father’s house. Unbeknown to her father’s wife, Agnes, who took baby in & gently cared for her-Sheila was result of an adulterous relationship between husband, David Bell & Margaret Rattray. tinyurl.com/n5876uph

Dexter Morgan, adopted at 3, witnessed his mother’s murder at 2. By day a Miami forensic analyst, by night a vigilante serial killer guided by his adoptive father’s code. careexperienceandculture.com/master/darkly-…