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Chris Wild

2 years

1996, I left care and found myself in a bedsit. My first Christmas Day I had a Pot Noodle on my own. Fast forward 30 years and young people leaving care are doing the same. How can we let this happen? Children in care are still children.

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Chris Wild

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6 months

Here's another for you @SuellaBraverman . 18 year old boy from Enfield. His Mum dies and he has no family. He ends up homeless living in a shed. He gets my contact details and I help him. I put him in the Travelodge on the A10 for 2 weeks until I can find him a room in a housing…

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Chris Wild

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1 year

16yr old girl in care highest grades in her school. She applies to study at a prestigious college and is refused. The college has some of the wealthiest children attend. I made contact with the college asking for an explanation using the term discrimination. She's accepted.

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Chris Wild

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4 years

It costs something like £36k a year to keep a young person in HM Feltham. I asked a local London borough for a gym pass £45 for a young boy I was working with. He loved boxing. They stopped paying the fee. He got bored and roped into gang life. He's in jail now. £45 or £35k ?

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Chris Wild

@ccwild79

6 months

At 16, I was placed in a bedsit with two older men who were both alcoholics. The place was dangerous and unsuitable for a 16 year old boy leaving care and starting an independent life. No one listened when I begged for somewhere safe to live. I ended up falling behind on my bills…

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Chris Wild

@ccwild79

6 months

There's nothing more humiliating than sitting outside KFC on a Friday night and asking drunk people on their way home for leftovers. Imagine being 16, 17, 18 and this is your only chance of survival. Being homeless was the most frightening time on my life. At 43, I have a house…

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Chris Wild

@ccwild79

1 year

A girl in care gets the best grades in Yorkshire and applies to study a prestigious college. Her application is denied. I look into this and call people out and guess what, it's administrative error. That's why we need care experience to be a protected characteristic.

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Chris Wild

@ccwild79

2 years

I spent my childhood in the care sector. I was groomed into gang life at 12yrs old. I've been homeless. I've been ar rock bottom twice, drugs, alcohol. I've been so broke that I had to steal. I've lived. Today I want to make sure young people in the care sector have a future.

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Chris Wild

@ccwild79

8 months

17+ care leaver caught stealing toiletries. She was too embarrassed to ask for help, and when she did, she was told to budget her UC better. I put her a bag of essentials together and delivered them directly to her supported accommodation. When asked to speak with a staff member,…

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Chris Wild

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8 months

It's incredibly brave for young men to come forward and talk about sexual abuse and rape from their time in care. There were 6 boys in my dorm at the children's home. There are only 2 of us here today. The other boy's took their own lives before the age of 25 because of the…

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Chris Wild

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1 year

I married a mixed race woman and we created a diverse family. Outraged for my wife to be told she doesn't belong here whilst with my children in a lift in her home town of @Enfield . My wife and children are Greek Cypriots, Egyptian, English and Italian.

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Chris Wild

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1 year

The largest private providers of children’s homes are charging councils an average of £3,830 a week per child and pocketing an average 23% of that as profit. That's something to think about. No one should be getting rich from vulnerable children and young people.

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Chris Wild

@ccwild79

1 year

@Mermoo2 And this is why we should make care experience a protected characteristic. Having that security to challenge the narrative without feeling scared or not worthy.

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Chris Wild

@ccwild79

1 year

15yr old placed in my care after being moved around the country 30 times. 30 times!!! He rocked up unsupervised in a taxi, late at night on his own. DfE ask yourself why these young people fail. Why they end up joining gangs. Why they don't go to school. Big salaries no…

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Chris Wild

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1 year

The prime minister has never had to face a 17yr old girl in care so hungry that she's considering prostitution to survive or a 16yr old boy forced to live in squalor then groomed by drug gangs only to end up in jail. Children in care are still children. #priorities

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Chris Wild

@ccwild79

21 days

I left care at 16 years old. I was placed in a bedsit with absolutely nothing to my name. The room had a second-hand bed with no covers and a dirty single curtain hanging of the rails. Yellow from cigarette stains. A shared toilet with a drug addict who kept falling asleep…

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Chris Wild

@ccwild79

2 years

I made a conscious decision this morning to join the Labour Party. I can't stand in the wings anymore and watch children and young people in the care sector suffer. Enough is enough. Children in care are still children.

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Chris Wild

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2 months

The picture on the left I was a homeless care leaver suffering from alcohol and drug addiction. It was also the last time I was ever arrested, drunken disorder. I was 20yrs old. I have worked incredibly hard over the years to build a life for myself. 20 years later. The picture…

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Chris Wild

@ccwild79

9 months

I met this amazing care leaver when she was 18. She was living independently, working two jobs and studying law. Well, here she is today with an Issa Bachelor of Law. I'm super proud of you. Let's get you to the bar. Please see the link and support if you can.…

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Chris Wild

@ccwild79

6 months

That first moment you realise you're homeless and no-one is coming to your rescue is a memory deep within your brain, it doesn't go away. Looking through windows wishing that was you sat in a warm house with love. Embarrassed to ask people for spare change just to get a hot drink…

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Chris Wild

@ccwild79

1 year

Left. The very last time I was arrested as a care leaver, homeless, jobless. I made a conscious decision at 21 to change my life, stop letting my care past destroy my future. #Thestateofit On the right. 42 author, campaigner, husband, father. Children in care are still children

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Chris Wild

@ccwild79

8 months

Another amazing care champion. Meet Katie, who's smashing life. Katie lives in semi independent care and is soon moving into her own flat. Her care journey has been tough, but she's had great support from the team at Orchard House Northampton. Again, proof that with the right…

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Chris Wild

@ccwild79

7 months

At 12 years old, I found myself homeless. Crazy but true. I ran away from the children's home and never went back. The local authority stopped looking for me as did the police. The only solace I had at the time was linking up with other young boys to form a gang. It was survival…

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Chris Wild

@ccwild79

8 months

Children in care have criminal records for taking food from the kitchen, in their care homes, after hours just because they were hungry. Believe it, it's still happening. Imagine your parents calling the police on you because you took food from the fridge? It wouldn't happen.…

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Chris Wild

@ccwild79

1 year

A 18yr old care leaver working 2 jobs. He goes to view 8 flats and is refused by the landlords. When he stops telling people he's in care he views a flat and the landlord gives him tenancy. This is why care experience needs to be a protected characteristic.

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Chris Wild

@ccwild79

5 months

On 25th December 1996, I woke up on Christmas Day with nothing. I had 3 slices of bread and a pot noodle for my Christmas dinner. It was the best pot noodle I've ever had. Every year, I do a Christmas collection for young people in care because I know first-hand what it feels…

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Chris Wild

@ccwild79

4 months

To this day, some children in care settings are arrested and charged with theft when they take food from their fridge after hours. Yes, you heard that right. Imagine being prosecuted for taking food from the kitchen in a children's home because you're starving, and then you get a…

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Chris Wild

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1 year

I need to add she did finally get accepted once I got everyone involved from the local MP to the DfE and she's smashing it.

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Chris Wild

@ccwild79

3 years

Some different and happy news today. We're having a boy. Losing my dad at 11 broke my heart, he was my hero, he still is so we're naming my son after him. David Ashikka Wild. 💜

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Chris Wild

@ccwild79

1 year

@dochawking No explanation. Administration error. That old chestnut.

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Chris Wild

@ccwild79

2 months

At 16 years old, I had left the care system and was living in a bedsit. I had a single bed, an electric hob, and a second-hand kettle full of limescale. The curtains were hanging off the rail, and the carpet was covered in stains. I had to share a bathroom with 3 other people,…

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Chris Wild

@ccwild79

1 year

@Boonanna No, it won't but we have enough evidence to prove that care leavers face discrimination on another level, that it leads mental health issues, homelessness, addiction, jail and suicide. How many boxers does one group need to tick?

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Chris Wild

@ccwild79

3 months

Young person in care from 11 years old. Placement to Placement, foster carers back and forth. At 18, it's the last hurdle, and she's placed in a run-down block of flats, and independent life as an adult begins. She's on UC and looking for a job. She tries to study in-between…

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Chris Wild

@ccwild79

19 days

A child in care can be arrested for going into the kitchen after hours and taking a biscuit. It would be classified as breaking an entry, section 112, and theft. It stays on your DBS throughout your late teens, and it could potentially prevent you from getting a job. And yes,…

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Chris Wild

@ccwild79

4 months

In 2014, I found myself unemployed and lost. I had just got my first mortgage, and my wife was expecting. I was on Universal Credit, and I had to watch my wife work incredibly hard to pay all the bills. I told her I would make it right, that I was going to write a book and change…

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Chris Wild

@ccwild79

1 year

A 9yr old boy in a children's home. All through his childhood he has corporate parents. Staff come and go, some don't care. No hugs. No bedtime stories. No relationships. 16,17,18 he's a young adult (not a child) supposedly ready for independence. #protectedcharacteristic

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Chris Wild

@ccwild79

5 months

Lots of young people in the care system are being placed in unsuitable accommodation. Some of these places do not have cooking facilities, no hobs, no oven, just a kettle. I asked one young person what his go-to meal was with very little money and nothing to cook with. He said…

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Chris Wild

@ccwild79

2 months

A young care leaver was placed in a bedsit at 18. He had no family and very little support. Unfortunately, he suffered from depression and as a result, he took his own life. I was informed by a professional working with him that she was the only one who attended his funeral. This…

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Chris Wild

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1 year

A big thank you for all your support this year. As a care leaver all I ever wanted was a family of my own. Meet the family. Children in care are still children.

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@ccwild79

8 months

@estherh1234 And not just that, lots of these places are unstaffed, and the owners of the properties put themselves down as employees without doing any support work whatsoever. Once care experience becomes a protected characteristic, we will be able to prevent this from happening.

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Chris Wild

@ccwild79

3 years

Weeks after this picture was taken my Dad died and my childhood came to an end. I ended up in a children's home. I cannot articulate what I experienced but because of that I have dedicated my life to help others like me. #CareDay21 We are unique, we are special, we will succeed.

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4 years

At 16, I left the care system. I was told that I would be in jail or dead before I was 21. At 18 I was a professional boxer. Today at 40 I'm an author, a manager, a consultant and I'm happily married with two beautiful children. #carehomekids #Nevergiveup #believe . #Damaged

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@ccwild79

1 year

I think I speak on behalf of all the care community tonight when I say the @JohnLewisRetail commercial as been a long time coming. What a day. Historical. Children in care are still children. We all have a responsibility to keep our children and young people safe and loved. X

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Chris Wild

@ccwild79

21 days

12 years old and told to pack a bag because a social worker is coming to collect you. You're being taken to a children's home. Your new life. You have no control. You leave everything you've ever known behind. Your mother suffers from severe mental health issues. She can't care…

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Chris Wild

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4 years

And heres the thing. I kept telling them that if he gets bored we'll lose him. He needs to be active all the time, let's fill his days with sports and activities. No, Chris. No can do.

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1 year

At 15yrs old she came into my care. She was very disruptive but I believed in her when no-one else did. She's now a support worker at Great Ormond Street and works in children's homes at the weekend. This is the success stories we need to hear. Children in care are still children

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Chris Wild

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4 years

I've said it before and I'll say it again. It costs the government £135k+ a year to look after a young person in HM Prison Cookham Wood. It would cost LA £20k a year to put that same YP on lots of youth training courses and potentially save his life. You do the maths.

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Chris Wild

@ccwild79

1 year

@CathHill2 This is why I'm asking everyone to support @TerryGalloway and his campaign to make care experience a protected characteristic.

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Chris Wild

@ccwild79

5 years

When I was 12 people labelled me a lost cause. I was in and out of care, I lived on the streets. I broke into cars to keep warm. I stole food from supermarkets to survive. One day somone believed in me and my life changed for ever. #LifeLessons Flowers die amongst weeds.

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Chris Wild

@ccwild79

1 month

Children 16+ placed in a travelodge with food bank vouchers. Unfortunately there's a strick rule of no cooking in these hotel rooms, unless it requires a kettle. So that means noodles three times a day and cupa soup. The young people in our care system are told to make good use…

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Chris Wild

@ccwild79

2 years

Imagine being 16+ living in a house with no support, no family, no money. This is what some might call being independent. For young care leavers it's called abandonment, neglect, forgotten. The word scared has a completely different meaning. Children in care are still children.

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Chris Wild

@ccwild79

6 months

3 police cars and 6 officers called to a house supporting young people 16+ in care because a young person was playing his music too loud. The neighbour told the police to go easy, the police left, giving the boy a stern warning. The young person in question then wrote a letter to…

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Chris Wild

@ccwild79

5 months

Today, I delivered some Christmas gifts to 3 amazing young people living in a semi independent care home. They told me that Christmas means nothing to them because they've never really had one. All through the care system at a very early age. 7-18, to be precise. I took them lots…

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Chris Wild

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3 months

Interesting conversation this morning. I am a care leaver who left school with one GCSE. I was homeless the same week. Dumped. I have no degree, and I've spent the best part of my 20s &30s trying to level up. I've written two very successful books and dedicated my life to the…

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Chris Wild

@ccwild79

4 years

Imagine being a 16yr old care experienced person stuck in a bed sit or a semi independent house in the middle of nowhere. Imagine having no money, no family, and no support system. Imagine being scared, lonely and depressed. Imagine all this at 16. It's someone's reality.

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Chris Wild

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3 years

Something I will never forget. It broke my heart. 15, coming into semi independent care, on his own, no social worker. children in care are still children. #phoenixcaring

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5 years

"He's 15 and he's never had his bed made for him." Care home manager Chris Wild recalls the night that "broke" him; when a teenager was dropped off alone at a home he was working at. 📺 Watch the full film: #Newsnight

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1 year

One young boy came into a home I was managing and bought all the over boys Pizza. He looked the business with his expensive coat and bike. He let the boys keep the change from a £20. He was 17. And just like that he groomed all the other boys into his gang.

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1 year

Going into care is not a choice. It's not an experience but a condition. At 18 you're abandoned by the state, left to defend for yourself. Imagine if your parents totally cut you off at 18 and said never make contact with them again. #changeiscoming #protected #characteristic

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@ccwild79

1 year

This is a single room for a young person 16+ living in semi independent care. This was in lockdown and luckliy I was able to intervene and get the room decorated. This is what some young people have to live with. Our care system 2022. Children in care are still children.

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1 year

Young care leaver made homeless. She is offered shared accommodation with drug addicts and alcoholics. She declines the property and finds herself homeless again. With some stern intervention we get her in a one bedroom apartment in a safe zone area. #protectedcharacteristic

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@ccwild79

4 months

As a child in care, I didn't go to school. I was expelled at 12 years old, and that was that. I walked the streets with other boys from the same background. Nobody cared. Nobody came looking. Times were very different, but nothing has changed. It's still happening. I was forced…

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Chris Wild

@ccwild79

1 year

Protected characteristic

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Chris Wild

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25 days

A recent add for a housing association. 'No Care Leavers'. Discrimination in plain sight and that's why we want care experience to be a protected characteristic.

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Chris Wild

@ccwild79

1 year

I was homeless at 12,16 and 27, it never leaves you. All I ever wanted as a care leaver was a family of my own. It took me until I was 31 to achieve my dream and now I want to make sure no other young person leaving care falls off the radar, or ends up homeless. #changeiscoming

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@ccwild79

1 year

Two bedrooms for young people 16+. The one on the left is for a young person living at home with a loving family. The one on the right is for a young person (child )living in semi independent care. Politician's take note. Children in care are still children.

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Chris Wild

@ccwild79

2 years

At 16yrs I was living in a bedsit. I had nothing but a GCSE to my name. No money, no support. As a care leaver there wasn't much I could do as it was deemed unemployable. My dreams kept me alive. Fast forward 26yrs. It's time for change. Children in care are still children.

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1 year

The very last time I was arrested as a care leaver, homless, jobless. I made a conscious decision at 21 to change my life and stop letting my care past destroy my future. #Thestateofit Children in care are still children.

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1 year

@Phillip_RN_RM I beat the system and for that reason I'm dedicating the rest of my life helping others.

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4 years

Two months after this picture was taken my Dad died. He was my hero. I was 11 year's old. My life spiralled out of control and I was sent to live in a Children's Home. Today I use my experience to help others like me. Writing my book #Damaged saved my life.👇💜 #NeverGiveUp

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2 years

The trauma of losing a parent and going into a children's home will never leave me. In 2022 children and young people in care are still being neglected, rejected, used and abused. Enough is enough. Make care experience a protected characteristic.

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1 year

Never take life for granted. My Dad, my hero and still is. I lived a good life. At 11yrs old my Dad died and my childhood was taken. I was sent to a children's home and all my innocent dreams transformed into survival nightmares.Children in care are still children. #Thestateofit

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1 year

This is why I will never stop campaigning for children and young people in the care sector. Children in care are still children.

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9 months

@nazirafzal This is everything wrong with our country. Real heroes are working hard every day to change people's lives, and these two did what exactly?

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1 month

On a happy note. When I was working in children's homes back in the day. I worked with some amazing young people, always full of life and always ambitious. Yesterday, I received an email from a social worker regarding a young person we both worked with in a care home. She was an…

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2 years

Care leavers week. A few months ago a young girl 18, found me after escaping a vilolent relationship in Leeds. Imprisoned in her bedsit. She came to London and I managed to get her is supported accommodation with therapeutic support. She's now living her best life. #NCLW2022

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1 year

Being in a bedsit at 16+ and surviving off 50p noodles and 6p crisps from Netto is something you never forget. 2022-The care sector might not be the workhouse but it's definitely not a sector that cares neither. It's a frightening experience all year round, especially in winter.

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1 year

Had an amazing offer from Colombia Hotels in Cyprus. They're offering some young care leavers the opportunity to live and work in Cyprus in the summer holidays all expenses paid. Children in care are still children. #changeiscoming

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8 months

@nichola_daly @C_Fitz_ We can start to stop things like this happening by making care experience a protected characteristic. It would force local authorities to place vulnerable young people in better homes. But it would also prevent some organisations from using the care sector and treating it as a…

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3 years

At 12, I was groomed into a criminal life of drugs and other iniquities. At 32 I decided to make it my life, my career, my passion, helping young people in the care sector like me. At 40 I've written two books and I'm working hard everyday to change the care sector and I will.

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1 year

Christmas can be very lonely for young people in the care sector. I know personally how that feels. I remember walking the streets looking into windows and seeing families celebrating. It's a lonely experience. Thank you @JohnLewisRetail Children in care are still children.

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1 year

Emotional day. I set out 4 years ago to make sure every young person in care had a gift on Christmas Day. The Care Leavers Christmas Collection has grown and expanded. It would be impossible without everyone's support. X Children in care are still children. #changeiscoming

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4 years

When I was 12, I spent Christmas day on my own without any family or presents. And for that reason I make it extra special now for my family and all the young people in my care. Every child deserves a Christmas. #carehomekids #christmasgifts #Christmas

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9 months

Children do not put themselves in care. Some are born into a dysfunctional world full of trauma, neglect, and abuse. You lose a parent to cancer, mental health, or addiction. Decisions you have no control of, then you face a lifetime of discrimination because of circumstances.

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5 years

It's not acceptable for any 16 year old boy to be abandoned by social services, left in the hands of the police and dropped on the doorstep on a semi independent care home. The boy was distraught. I can't let this rest. It's time for urgent action. #carehome #socialneglect

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1 year

Only when it's necessary. I would never pull the profile, name game if I could resolve things on my own. But you can't fight a biased system purely on your own.

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4 months

40 years ago today..loving stable family with my Dad on Christmas Day 1983. 8 years later, I find myself in a children's home. You can not control your future as a child, but you can learn from it and turn your adversity into an advantage. Children in care are still children.…

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11 months

I once disclosed to an old work colleague I was in a children's home at 11, because my dad died and my family fell apart. He told the rest or the team to watch their belongings around me! Discrimination. There's millions more from care experienced people all over the country.

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10 months

In 2018, a young person I cared for was sent to a young offender institute for a crime he was forced to commit. Two months in, he wrote to me saying it was easy, that he was making friends. Also, in the envelope, there was a small piece of paper with the word 'HELP'. He was 16.

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3 years

I have put my heart and soul into my work and in the 12 months we have seen the care sector for young people in its true light. Hopefully my new book can shed some light into the future and help create a better care system for young people all over the country.

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6 months

Homelessness is a lifestyle choice? I've been homeless twice in my life. As a young care leaver at 16 years old and again in my 20s when I was suffering with my mental health. I never chose to live on the streets. Hundreds of young people from 18 upwards are fighting for places…

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1 year

43 today. I got here that's an achievement in itself. I feel blessed that I'm able to reflect on my life, my past, my childhood trauma and help young people like me. I have my family who support me and understand how important my work is. Children in care are still children.

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1 year

It's important to understand that you can be born into a world of love and it all could be taken away overnight regardless of who you are or where you come from, as it did for me. Remember this. Children in care are still children. #Thestateofit #Damaged #NeverGiveUp

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3 years

I have a friend who has been a social worker for 20 years. He told me that he misses the days when he could take the YP rock climbing or to the cinema. Today he has 27 YP on his case load and his work has become a administration assessment clerk. We need SW back on the streets.

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4 years

This is such a powerful image. Youth workers are so important for our children's future. The government needs to invest in youth projects, it's so important for young people's health and well-being. #prevention is key. #ListenToThis

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7 months

15-year-old girl stabbed to death. Seriously. WTF. It's not OK. I sat in a council meeting in croydon and watched the local councillors argue about money being wasted and unnecessary things and ignoring youth services. They're not investing in anything youth related. I will…

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Chris Wild

@ccwild79

10 months

I left the care sector in 1996, 16 and homeless. I returned 26 years later as a professional only to find nothing had changed. This is why I will never stop campaigning for children in care. 2023, we're still here. #changeiscoming make care experience a protected characteristic.

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Chris Wild

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3 months

The campaign to make care experience a protected characteristic is personal. I left care at 16, and I know first-hand how difficult life was (still is) for young people leaving the system. I came back into the system to help other young people like me. 2024, this is a bedroom for…

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Chris Wild

@ccwild79

3 months

Another amazing outcome for young people leaving care. 21 years old, and today she secured a job as a trainee buyer in a top luxury fashion company. So, as a gift, we got her a tube pass for a few months and a meal for two in top London restaurant. #changeiscoming .Children in…

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Chris Wild

@ccwild79

6 years

Books like #Damaged saved my life. Whatever your trauma is OWN it. #livelife #lovelife ❤️ it's belongs to you. #life #family #serendipity #newbeginnings #speakup #speakout #raiseawareness #Education #timeforchange

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Chris Wild

@ccwild79

3 months

I haven't stopped thinking about this beautiful baby all day. I'm broken. 2 years old. Why? Social services, the police...WTF. I will honour his name and campaign to make sure this never happens again. I'm absolutely lost for words. This is why safeguarding is so important. We…

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