My life in care and my search for my mother beginning with the Windrush generation, transracial fostering, the care system, confusion over my identity and concluding with mystery and survival.
Views: 593 | Enquiries: 6Abandoned at birth, I was brought up in the care system. I worked as a shop assistant before joining the Warwickshire Police. From there I became a residential social worker, Inspector of care services and a Social care manager for local authorities in the West Midlands and Warwickshire. I am now retired and I live with my husband in Coventry.
My talk is based on my memoir "Call Me Auntie" (published by Waterside Press in 2020). It has five main themes:
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