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- The Mental Toll of Childhood Trauma Across Life Stages
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- Foster Care Displacement: Criminalization, Credibility, and hidden agenda.
- Systemic Obstruction: How UK Social Services Undermine Statutory Rights and Accountability
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When Records Rewrite Reality: How False Narratives in Social Care Shape a Survivor’s Life
Decades after leaving foster care, I discovered that my social care files contained false and damaging narratives — ones that followed me into adulthood, shaped how professionals treated me, and nearly silenced my truth. This is how official records can … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse, child abuse, False narratives in social care, family, healing, historic abuse, mental-health, ptsd, social services, Trauma
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Foster Care Displacement: Criminalization, Credibility, and hidden agenda.
When I was 10 years old, I spoke up about sexual abuse for the first time.I believed that telling the truth would make the adults around me protect me.Instead, the foster care system was used to displace, criminalize and disorientate … Continue reading
Systemic Obstruction: How UK Social Services Undermine Statutory Rights and Accountability
Introduction The United Kingdom’s social care system operates under a framework designed to protect children and ensure transparency. Yet for many care-experienced people like me, the reality is one of systematic obstruction and institutional self-protection. Statutory mechanisms such as the … Continue reading
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Tagged child abuse, family, healing, historic abuse, law, mental-health, news, politics, social services, Systemic failure, systemic obstruction, Trauma
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The Inheritance of Files: How the State Turned Guardianship into Surveillance
Trigger Warning: Mentions of state care, child abuse, and surveillance of care-experienced parents.Written from lived experience. A Child of the Court I became a ward of court at eight years old. From that moment, the state claimed legal guardianship over … Continue reading
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Tagged child abuse, England, family, foster care, healing, historic abuse, life, mental-health, parenting, social services, Trauma, UK
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Fostering for Purpose Vs Financial Gain.
Fostering is a good will job, that requires skill, time and a lot of energy. Good foster parents deserve financial support and help when fostering children. Children are expensive, and giving up your life to give someone else a fairer … Continue reading
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Foster Placement 6 *trigger warning*
Please read placement number 6 before reading placement 6 *trigger warning*. this post is a part two, and has a part one. As I stated in part one, the foster mother was fake, manipulative and somewhat sadistic in her mannerisms. … Continue reading
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Placement Number 6
The family who lived in placement number 6, were foster parents whom had four biological sons. This family fostered up to four girls at a time, mainly from biracial backgrounds. The foster children slept on bunk beds in one room … Continue reading
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Foster Care Part 2 *trigger warning*
Foster family number 3 In 1991, I was placed with a black family who were personal friends with placement number 2. The new family lived in the same area, a few streets away from foster family number 2. Within four … Continue reading
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