Chloe Grant

@WardellR @Become1992 Really good to catch up today @WardellR & that you were able to join our workshop on the PA learning programme

So pleased our @Become1992 team were recognised with this Children and Young People Charity award last night #CYPNowAwards 🎉🥳

.. but it is always lovely when you do! So happy our brilliant @Become1992 won best Children and Young People's charity award 🥳 #CYPNowAwards

@DrElStaples An important and valuable contribution to efforts to reduce the criminilisation of care experienced young people 👏

Really pleased to see this published: first post-academia research. Lots of findings relating to wider issue of reducing the criminalisation of care-experienced CYP. Thanks to all the CYP and professionals who took part: justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmiprobation/w…

@nick_marsh1 Congratulations @nick_marsh1 - a huge achievement, and I’ve been inspired by your training and insights 🙏🏻

💜 It’s #CareDay2024, a chance to celebrate and connect the #CareExperienced community & the perfect day to host @knashemma colleagues. So impressed by their youth-led projects supporting care experienced young people & improving the Swedish care system. Feeling inspired 🙏🏻💫

@sophiassocials @ChurchillFship What a brilliant focus for this fellowship. We’d love to hear more about this where I work @Become1992 . Best of luck with this project!

Some news 🚨 I’m a 2023 recipient of the #ChurchillFellowship! @ChurchillFship is funding my project to create a trauma-informed toolkit for journalists to use when interviewing care experienced people. As part of my research I’ll be travelling to the US later this year. (1/3)

@RebekahPierre92 @carer_foster Looking forward to reading this - thank you 🙏🏻👏

Christmas is approaching. If you want to gift something more meaningful than socks/selection boxes this year, look no further! Free Loaves on Fridays contains the voices of 100 care-experienced people. Proceeds go to two wonderful charities supporting children in care. 📖 > 🧦

Too many children in care are moved far from the people and places they know and love. Pls imagine that … And recent DfE stats show it’s getting worse. Pls watch & share this film & ask your MP to support @Become1992’s #GoneTooFar campaign👇

Please share and support our #TickTheBox campaign this National Care Leavers Week! #NCLW #TickTheBox ✅ 🎓

Welcome to National Care Leavers' Week 2023, where we're calling on everyone to show you CARE: 👏 Celebrate care leavers 📣 Amplify their voices 🚧 Raise awareness of challenges 💜 Encourage change in policy & practice Use #NCLW to get involved 💜 becomecharity.org.uk/nclw

Thanks to @helenhayes_ for highlighting that far too many #childrenincare are living far away from their friends and family at #ChildrenAtTheHeart reception #Lab23 - @Become1992 we are campaigning for urgent action to prevent this #GoneTooFar

Please share this new guide with governors, school leaders, teachers & support staff. Governors & school staff aim to support all students to thrive. With this guide, they’ll be better equipped to do that for children in care. Thanks @9000lives_org for collaborating 👏💫

📚 We have launched our Children in Care: Guide for School Governors, created in collaboration with Aaron King (@9000lives_org) ⬇️ This short handbook tells you what you need to know about children in care. becomecharity.org.uk/children-in-ca…

@9000lives_org @Become1992 Brilliant to work together on this Aaron 👏

@Become1992 Delighted to have been part of this important project!

@MichaelaRaffert @atlanticfellows This sounds fascinating @MichaelaRaffert

Incredible week in beautiful Armenia exploring the transformative role narratives have in our sense of self and the fight for social change. Forever grateful to @atlanticfellows for the opportunity to join such an inspiring trip with the most amazing people.

@chantellelunt Yours was such a powerful, inspiring and exposing post: for highlighting particular injustices Black children in care often experience; for all you’ve done and achieved (mind boggling!); and for sharing personal experiences in order to celebrate another brilliant human! 💫

I felt this in my soul. When I was taken into care, at the age of 1, I was separated from my brothers and moved from Toxteth - a diverse area of Liverpool - to Halewood - a part of Knowsley that was more than 99% white, a place where I was chased, beaten, and taunted for being Black. When I was taken into care, I lost so much more than my family. I lost my culture, my history, and the protection of my community. Like Louise, I tried to shrink and hide myself, starting with my hair. I relaxed my hair from the age of 9 because I was tired of people touching it and making fun of it. It took years for me to learn to embrace who I was, to learn about my history, culture, and identity - which is probably why I'm so unwavering about those things now - and I was well into my 20s before I threw the relaxer away! As an adult, I have chosen to research the educational journeys of care experienced young people for my PhD. While it's great to see the increasing academic interest in the outcomes for care experienced people - outcomes like the care to prison and homelessness pipeline that had, at one time seemed inevitable - it's clear that a lot more research is needed on the intersections of care and race. To be Black and in care is to experience a whole different level of compound discrimination. To Louise, I say this ⬇️ I don't know you, but I see you, and i see what you've been up against. I spent most of my childhood in care, my birth mum died at 14, and I crashed out of school after failing most of my GCSE's at 16. I was homeless a few months later and went down a dark path for a while. By 19, I had a baby boy, and everyone told me I was nothing and that I was going nowhere fast. But my baby boy was the making of me. I fought for him, dreamed for him and climbed for him. I worked 2 jobs, studied at night school, and got apprenticeships and secondments by day. I gained promotions at work and got the qualifications that allowed me to go to university. Over the past 6 years I have gained a first class degree, masters with distinction, I've had my writing published by Bloomsbury, had my work performed on stage and given keynotes speeches to sold out events up and down the country. I'm a lecturer and Halewood's first Black Woman Town Councillor. But none of that makes me as proud as yesterday did. Yesterday, the boy I hoped to raise higher than me got his GCSE results. He passed his GCSE's and is going to study at his first choice sixth form. He is the first person in my family to do this, and to say I am proud would be an understatement. I recently did a podcast about some of my experience in care. The host asked me what I would go back to say to my 16 year old self and I was, momentarily, unable to speak. 16 year old me had no voice. She was a broken shell of a person who would, in a few months' time, try to take her own future away. She had no idea what she was capable of or what she would go on to achieve. I wish I could go back and show her the 16 year old King she raised and tell her exactly what she was capable of. To you Louise, I say this. You are a force to be reckoned with. You are raising a Queen and changing the world. Your lived experience will give you the strength and empathy to achieve anything. You are capable of moving mountains and I believe that you will. Louise, you have got this 👑 @Become1992

Do you have professional experience of the care system? Or do you work for a public org (e.g. school/NHS)? Or are you #CareExperienced? 💜 Then #APPGCare want to hear your views on corporate parenting. ⬇️ Find out more: #involved" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">becomecharity.org.uk/appg-inquiry-i…

A young woman gave birth alone, her pain and calls for assistance ignored, and she endured an unimaginable loss. Narratives around race, gangs and care experience no doubt contributed to such poor maternal care theguardian.com/society/2023/j…

My team @Become1992 offers a unique, free coaching offer to care experienced young people. Please share with young people you know