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• I wasn't told why I was taken into care. For years I thought it was my fault

  20-01-2020 09:42
  
  How can you adjust to a new situation, feel safe and settled, when you don’t know how you got there?When I was taken into care at 15, I was moved 80 miles from home. My relationship with my mum had broken down and I felt isolated and frightened. I barely knew my social worker and didn’t know any of the staff or other young people in the care home. I didn’t know why I was there. I felt I simply had to accept everything these strangers were doing.My experience will resonate with
  
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• Think extreme sports aren’t for ninety-year-olds?

  20-01-2020 07:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Think extreme sports aren’t for ninety-year-olds? Think again. A 92-year-old care home resident has fulfilled his wish to go skiing for the first time, just a couple of months before his 93rd birthday. Robert Trulocke, a resident at Care UK’s Millers Grange in Witney, known to everyone as Bob, has always wanted to go skiing, […]
  
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• UK benevolent funds hand out £216m as hardship grows

  20-01-2020 01:01
  
  Return of pre-welfare state charities created to help struggling ‘gentlefolk’ as people fall through safety netBenevolent funds – many created on a wave of 19th-century philanthropy to provide assistance to struggling “gentlefolk” or handouts to the starving and destitute of the parish – are reporting a surge in demand for help and hardship grants.Over the last year, hardship charities in the UK gave out an estimated £216m in grants – up from &poun
  
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