When i was 5 years old my father took  me from my mother with her conscent, to live with him and his new wife.
It quickly bacame apparent to me that she took an instant dislike to me, more like hatered. She had four children of her own. Anyway the abuse started off almost immediately making me stand in the corner of the room facing the wall for absolutely no reason that a five year old child would understand anyway.  The days went on with low level mental abuse, well to a five year old boy it was devastating. My father was a long distant driver so all this abuse took place when he was out, but he could see that I was unhappy there. So her four children started to bully me and attacked me in the house. They had a dog that use to nip me, and they would all just laugh. I started to hear her mother say to her, "Why don't you just dump him somewhere."  So after a year of mental tourment at the hands of everyone in that house, she finally decided  to take her mothers advice and dump me on the street I was only 6 years. So Social services placed me with a foster family but after a year the moved me to a children's home. That was a blow to me because I became part of a loving family. When I was 8 years old they moved me to another children's gome where I stayed for 8 years.  I left  the children's home when I was 16, then they moved me to another children's home for a year, then when I was  17  they moved me to an half way house to get me use to an independant life.  I left the care system as I went in feeling alone, worried, & affraid. Of course i have not put every awful experience in this post.  Thank You.

Well done everyone involved in highlighting and pursuing this, I hope things change.

All I heard was a bunch of people talking about what needs to be done. But no one ever follows up with how to make changes. Not where the funding will come from .

Great job all involved in highlighting this issue

I lived in this home when this was being recorded, a lot happened to me compared to what this women went through. Wish I could share awareness like this

only 310 views, it seems people care about love Island then the fate of the most vulnerable children. Alas, the human condition!

Omg I've known this town!⏰ it's about the money for the owners. The children are not being guided only warehoused! Not prepared for adult life!⏰🤔 they're on the fringes of these towns and low pay unregulated. Where's the social workers??

This hits so close to home. I was harassed/ bullied when living in such a place in Norway. The amount of effects it has on you at such a young age is horrible. Thank you for addressing this.

How about people ask why so many children need foster homes? Why are social services taking children from good homes? If you believe that social services only take children from abusive dangerous homes, you would be wrong. Money and power rule the system, so until Social services are looked into, things will not change!

We should make our public boarding schools take them.

They need to start showing pictures and coming out with the sick things that these children go through. It may be harsh but its the truth. We the People need to stand up and put these predators away for good and make them work and give their earnings to the children they have hurt.

6:00 - I lived for 2 years, until few months ago, next to other people "managed" by Harvest Care Group (HCG).

And I say "managed" in double quotes since they were actually left completely unsupervised, binging on junk food, booze and drugs - making up some extra money dealing drugs and stealing bikes while very sloppily pretending to apply for jobs.

I had to live with basically untouchable former convicts wasting a lot of the money I am heavily taxed out of my pockets with drugs I had to smell and breath all the time; I was more than once threatened with lethal violence by at least 3 different "good kids" and received nothing but blame on me (how? Why? Not sure) from social workers handsomely profiting from this situation of deranged and spiralling degrade.

Add countless hours of lost sleep, all the health damage from passive smoke and very loud yelling/fighting deep in the night, the personal risk of having unhinged thugs around me in an area they could never afford and the sadness of knowing their support cost ~£2-5k/month. Each.

The met police was mostly a disappointment, IMHO in no small part due to the ethnicity of the most violent one: they only showed some annoyed interest when I told them that "people like him" would just keep escalating, completely unrestrained. I was severely, sternly asked what I meant by "people like him" and when I replied "uh, people doing nothing with their days and in a gang?", they went back in lethargic disinterest about the whole matter, having confirmed I did not have some racial bias 🙄.

He was finally arrested once he was so smart to throw a knife a a policeman that wanted to talk with him: that tells you a lot about his impulse control.

HCG, including Cameron himself the few times he bothered to make himself available to either me or the landlords, were completely irresponsible, incompetent and ultimately callus in not dealing with it at all: I was shut down and constantly told "they were good kids" (I knew for a fact all had previous criminal offences, not to mention their threats) and I was the problem, since nobody else complained (false: I was contacted about the drugs and loud noises even from people leaving in more distant flats).

What went on at Shirley Oaks.
Was terrible beyond belief.
No one has heard the full account of it

Your so right care was anight mareleast to say,children in care suffered abuse for years I have tried to get my files people have tried to find them no such luck I'm a nobody what happened to me has hunted me all my life all these monsters need to be held accountable for the abuse in the homes.

Broken society... 🙄

Given what happened in Rotherham and many other places the regulated ones don't appear to be too great either.

why not provide the fostering service with financial support in keeping and supplying safe home surroundings for the 16+ people staying with them .instead of cutting the financial support from 18 onwards its disgusting   an insult to learn how these children are being exploited when moved on... look to the children young people to tell you it does not work to move them on from fostering placements.. i personally feel insulted and terribly  hurt by how we are all treated. Children, young people and carers. the system is more than broken.

Regulation does not mean that there is an administrative structure and an absolute duty of care to ensure that all possibilities for any type of criminality not to occur. That is why the likes of Cyril Smith & Saville  and others were free to practise their abuse without the likelihood of facing any legal challenge to their activities. The running of such homes was in the hands of people with absolute authority and control of everything that went on and the abusers were part of a network where other agencies  were involved and  the personnel in these constituted a stonewall  which  could prevent and thwart  anyone who tried to expose what was going on. Tim Fortescue , a former Tory whip in Westminster, admitted that MPs of his party came to him when they had been involved such risky behaviour to fix it so that they did not have to worry about facing any consequences for their actions.
That is the level to which things were taken to hush things up. There was a YT upload of Fortescue admitting it. The failure, if not active complicity of agencies charged with protecting society like the police, has been palpable and outrageous.

Well done you Claudia 😘

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