{"id":212,"date":"2021-10-25T10:45:25","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T10:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chloejuliette.com\/?p=212"},"modified":"2022-03-18T14:44:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T14:44:46","slug":"why-you-should-care-about-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chloejuliette.com\/why-you-should-care-about-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Why you should care about care"},"content":{"rendered":"
In an article on Sound Delivery Media I discuss ‘Why should you care about care’.<\/p>\n
Excerpt:<\/p>\n
Picture a child you know and love. Now, picture them in the care system. The number of children being taken into care has been rising for a decade, while funding for children\u2019s social care has been steadily falling. We are your neighbours. We go to school with your kids. We could be your\u00a0<\/em>kids. We could have been you.<\/p>\n
Imagine \u2013 at six years old, your single mum gets ill. Your dad was a veteran and passed away before you remember and now your Mum has a thing called cancer. Before you know it, you\u2019re in care, being passed from pillar to post in sad, off-white rooms with broken toys, odd smells, and strangers talking in a language you don\u2019t understand. No-one looks at you. No-one really talks to you. Everyone talks about you, often in front of you, but not\u00a0to\u00a0<\/em>you. Everytime you enter a room, you feel like you\u2019re interrupting. You live with strangers and a kid who keeps kicking you when they\u2019re not looking. Doesn\u2019t feel much like a safety net, parent or a \u2018care\u2019 system, does it?<\/p>\n