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Chris Wild: The State of It: Stories from the Frontline of a Broken Care System

Campaigner and government advisor Chris Wild delves deep into the lives of care home kids and asks, 'Can we fix how we look after children in care'?

Chris Wild: The State of It: Stories from the Frontline of a Broken Care System

About Chris Wild: The State of It: Stories from the Frontline of a Broken Care System

Campaigner Chris Wild asks ‘Can we fix how we look after children in care’?

Government cuts, unregulated care homes, inadequate staff training - campaigner and care home consultant Chris Wild has seen it all. The low standards and frequent abuse of children in care has long been a focal point of his loud message: we are failing our young people and something needs to change.

Campaigner and government advisor Chris Wild delves deep into the lives of care home kids, from experiences with county lines, drugs, trafficking, knife crime, gang violence to child exploitation and sexual abuse. He tells the stories of the voiceless, the children who have been left behind, compounded by his own experiences of growing up in care.

How is the care system failing our young people and controlling just who and what they can become? What help do we really give children after their time in care is over, left to fend for themselves? Is it too late to fix the state of it?

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