Care Crisis UK: how I survived a broken system

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Casey Armstrong has defied the odds of many young care leavers - but her journey through foster care, being forced from a home she loved, came at a huge personal cost. It was her love of physics and science which inspired her to pull herself out of a life plagued by drink and drugs and to finally find a ‘normal life’ at university studying her favourite subject. [Subscribe: https://bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe] Children in care are far less likely to achieve good GCSEs or go to university. A quarter of the prison population has been in care. The author of a landmark report into children's social care in England has told this programme the government must commit to radical reform of the whole system - a system failing some of the most vulnerable children in care. The review's recommendations will cost an extra £2.6 billion pounds over the next four years. We also speak to Josh MacAlister, chair of The Independent Care Review - he's put forward a raft of recommendations to overhaul a system few argue is working. A Department for Education spokesperson told us: "Every child deserves the security of a safe and loving home" and said the government will shortly publish what they described as ambitious reform plans for children's social care." ------- Watch more of our explainer series here - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXjqQf1xYLQ6bu-iixvoFTVsiXQVlVniX Get more news at our site - https://www.channel4.com/news/ Follow us: Facebook - https://www.facebook.

Published 2023-01-26 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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