Free Loaves on Fridays: The Care System As Told By People Who Actually Get It
About The Book
This book is all about the care system, and it's written by people who have experienced it first-hand.
Free Loaves on Fridays is an anthology of stories, poems, reflections and letters by nearly 100 care-experienced people, which aims to challenge the sliced-loaf mindset. This collection gives voice to diverse experiences including foster care, adoption, kinship care and semi-independent living, among others.
Headlines written about care often entrench negative stereotypes and dominate the narrative, leaving care-experienced people with nothing but crumbs. This anthology is an opportunity to redirect the dialogue and present a window into a world that has been overlooked for too long.
Free Loaves on Fridays presents a spectrum of joy and sadness, laughter and tears, love and loss, and reminds us that bread tastes so much better when it’s been chosen.
In the wake of the independent review of children’s social care in England – dubbed a ‘once in a lifetime opportunity’ – the time for care experience push back is now. It is our voices - not pen-pushers who write policies from the comfort of their Ivory Tower - that ought to be heard.
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