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- Homeschooling Regulation, Institutional Power, and the Erasure of School-Based Abuse
- Systemic Foster Care Omissions and the Lifelong Barriers They Create
- When Gifted Children Became Subjects
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Homeschooling Regulation, Institutional Power, and the Erasure of School-Based Abuse
A survivor-led analysis of safeguarding policy and institutional accountability This article examines recent proposals to expand state oversight of home education in England, questioning the assumptions that underpin them. Written from lived experience alongside engagement with safeguarding policy and research, … Continue reading
When Gifted Children Became Subjects
Non-Verbal Testing, Hypnosis, and the Experience of Being Studied Institutional Context: Bristol in the 1980s During the 1970s and 1980s, research into children’s cognition expanded significantly across the United Kingdom. Educational psychologists, universities, and schools increasingly explored non-verbal intelligence, spatial … Continue reading
How Race Shapes Systemic Responses to Abuse in Foster Care:
An Analysis Informed by Lived Experience in the 1980s and 1990s Introduction Entering foster care as a mixed race child meant entering a system already structured by racialised assumptions about vulnerability, behaviour, and credibility. From the outset, I was placed … Continue reading
Gifted Cognition in Adverse Environments: Systems Thinking, Trauma, and Misrecognition in Foster Care
Recognising Diverse Forms of Giftedness The following section explains how my cognitive style developed within the context of foster care and trauma, and why forms of giftedness that do not follow traditional educational pathways are often overlooked among children in … Continue reading
Institutional Accountability and Legal Responsibility
Institutional Accountability, Embodied Trauma, and Pathways to Justice This article discusses the longer-term impacts of institutional betrayal, substantiated abuse, its physiological consequences, and the pathways to justice from a lived perspective – referencing my own ethnographic experience, and substantiated statutory … Continue reading
Ethnographic Case Narrative: Early Menopause, Chronic Trauma, and Institutional Accountability
This narrative is written not as an outsider analysing policy, but as someone who lived inside the contradictions, denials, and harms of state care. What follows is both lived experience and embodied data: an ethnography in which my body is … Continue reading
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The Hidden Cost of Survival: How Trauma Becomes a Financial Burden for Care Survivors
Trigger Warning: Mentions of trauma, abuse, and systemic neglect.Written from lived experience. The Price of Healing For children who grow up in state care, the trauma doesn’t end when the placement ends. The system’s failures echo through adulthood — in … Continue reading
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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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When Trauma Meets Bureaucracy: Living with CPTSD in a System That Doesn’t Understand It
There is something uniquely exhausting about living with Complex PTSD, not just the symptoms themselves, but the constant negotiation with systems that don’t understand them. The very institutions that claim to protect and support people with disabilities or trauma-related conditions, … Continue reading
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The Barriers of Red Tape: How Systems Silence Survivors
One of the most damaging parts of surviving abuse is not only what was done to you. it’s what follows when you try to tell the truth. The act of speaking out requires courage. Seeking justice, understanding, or even basic … Continue reading
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