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Joe Swash: Fostering transformed my family - but government faffing is putting kids at risk

It’s shocking that the care system has been allowed to get in this state – but it’s not going to be magically fixed overnight

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Children moved more than 500 miles away from home due to 'broken' care system

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‘I had such bad anxiety, I avoided busy shops and crowds. Now I'm literally climbing mountains'

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In care from age four, I couldn't think about the future. Now I have support to look ahead’

Article thumbnail: From Triforce Productions HANDLE WITH CARE: JIMMY AKINGBOLA Tuesday 1st November 2022 on ITV Pictured: JIMMY AKINGBOLA on stage Is love all you need? The number of children in care has risen by a massive 28% in the past decade to almost half a million. Of the children in Britain awaiting adoption, over 40% are Black yet Black foster families are rare in comparison, resulting in white parents raising children from other ethnicities and cultures. In this deeply personal film, acclaimed actor and presenter Jimmy Akingbola tells his own story and in doing so, reveals the truth of growing up in the care system in England. At two years old Jimmy was uprooted from his Nigerian family and fostered by a white British family, who raised him alongside their birth children as if he were their own. Now living in the bright lights of Hollywood with a glittering career, Bel-Air star Jimmy returns home to Britain to reflect on how his upbringing shaped him. Jimmy speaks to his own foster family and biological siblings about their feelings and meets fellow actor Lenny James and retired Olympic athlete Kriss Akabusi, who both share their own personal stories of foster and adopted care and children???s homes, good and bad. While exploring themes of identity, abandonment, the importance of role models and cultural connection, this thoughtful, engaging and emotional film, directed by Andy Mundy-Castle, considers whether a loving family, no matter their ethnicity, is always more important than racial or cultural differences. (C) Triforce Productions For further information please contact Peter Gray Mob 07831460662 / peter.gray@itv.com This photograph is (C) Triforce Productions and can only be reproduced for editorial purposes directly in connection with the programme HANDLE WITH CARE: JIMMY AKINGBOLA or ITV. Once made available by the ITV Picture Desk, this photograph can be reproduced once only up until the Transmission date and no reproduction fee will be charged. Any subsequent usage may incur a fee. This photograph must not be syndicated to any other publication or website, or permanently archived, without the express written permission of ITV Picture Desk. Full Terms and conditions are available on the website www.itvpictures.com Jimmy Akingbola Handle with Care TV Still ITV
Article thumbnail: From Triforce Productions HANDLE WITH CARE: JIMMY AKINGBOLA Tuesday 1st November 2022 on ITV Pictured: JIMMY AKINGBOLA on stage Is love all you need? The number of children in care has risen by a massive 28% in the past decade to almost half a million. Of the children in Britain awaiting adoption, over 40% are Black yet Black foster families are rare in comparison, resulting in white parents raising children from other ethnicities and cultures. In this deeply personal film, acclaimed actor and presenter Jimmy Akingbola tells his own story and in doing so, reveals the truth of growing up in the care system in England. At two years old Jimmy was uprooted from his Nigerian family and fostered by a white British family, who raised him alongside their birth children as if he were their own. Now living in the bright lights of Hollywood with a glittering career, Bel-Air star Jimmy returns home to Britain to reflect on how his upbringing shaped him. Jimmy speaks to his own foster family and biological siblings about their feelings and meets fellow actor Lenny James and retired Olympic athlete Kriss Akabusi, who both share their own personal stories of foster and adopted care and children???s homes, good and bad. While exploring themes of identity, abandonment, the importance of role models and cultural connection, this thoughtful, engaging and emotional film, directed by Andy Mundy-Castle, considers whether a loving family, no matter their ethnicity, is always more important than racial or cultural differences. (C) Triforce Productions For further information please contact Peter Gray Mob 07831460662 / peter.gray@itv.com This photograph is (C) Triforce Productions and can only be reproduced for editorial purposes directly in connection with the programme HANDLE WITH CARE: JIMMY AKINGBOLA or ITV. Once made available by the ITV Picture Desk, this photograph can be reproduced once only up until the Transmission date and no reproduction fee will be charged. Any subsequent usage may incur a fee. This photograph must not be syndicated to any other publication or website, or permanently archived, without the express written permission of ITV Picture Desk. Full Terms and conditions are available on the website www.itvpictures.com Jimmy Akingbola Handle with Care TV Still ITV
Article thumbnail: EMBARGOED TO 0001 FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 30 File photo dated 29/10/21 of a care home resident holding hands with her daughter, as "too many" care home residents are facing serious challenges in getting vital support from their loved ones during coronavirus outbreaks, with families still experiencing barriers to visits, campaigners have said. PA Photo. Issue date: Friday July 22, 2022. A coalition of organisations has written to local health and care leaders calling on them to end harmful isolation practices in care settings. See PA story HEALTH Isolation. Photo credit should read: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire
Article thumbnail: EMBARGOED TO 0001 FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 30 File photo dated 29/10/21 of a care home resident holding hands with her daughter, as "too many" care home residents are facing serious challenges in getting vital support from their loved ones during coronavirus outbreaks, with families still experiencing barriers to visits, campaigners have said. PA Photo. Issue date: Friday July 22, 2022. A coalition of organisations has written to local health and care leaders calling on them to end harmful isolation practices in care settings. See PA story HEALTH Isolation. Photo credit should read: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire
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Article thumbnail: The Government has announced a major review into the circumstances which led to the murder of six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes. It aims to determine what improvements are needed by the agencies that came into contact with Arthur in the months before he was murdered by stepmother Emma Tustin at their home in Solihull (Photo: Family Handout/PA Wire)
Article thumbnail: The Government has announced a major review into the circumstances which led to the murder of six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes. It aims to determine what improvements are needed by the agencies that came into contact with Arthur in the months before he was murdered by stepmother Emma Tustin at their home in Solihull (Photo: Family Handout/PA Wire)