'Despite my mum's experience, I didn't realise how little I knew about the UK's care system – and the state it is in – until I started working on my BBC One documentary 'I was shocked at what I learned'
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It’s shocking that the care system has been allowed to get in this state – but it’s not going to be magically fixed overnightMy mother Kiffy became aover 10 years ago. I was all for it, I thought it was an amazing thing to do. My sisters had all grown up and left home, and if there’s one thing my mum is good at it is being a mum. She felt like she had more to give.
The first child she fostered found a permanent home. It was devastating to say goodbye – I think we were all grieving in a way – but it would have been selfish of us to try to stop it. We still see her – she came to my wedding, and she visits a couple of times a year. She’s like any other member of an extended family.
A few years later, my mum fostered Daniel. He was just eight then, now he’s 18 and in university. We’re all super proud of him. Mum jokes that she made all her mistakes with her biological children, so she has been the perfect mother to Daniel. My sisters and I were so fortunate to grow up in a family environment and be loved. Daniel missed that for his first eight years, so we want to spoil him – he really is treated like a prince. He might be lucky to have been fostered – Government figures suggest the number of children aged 16 and over in care has increased by 37 per cent in the last decade alone – but we also feel incredibly lucky to have found him, too.
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