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Key Meanings
Care Experience
This is a working meaning. We are looking at how we reach a wider meaning on Care Experience. We will share more this soon
Any person who is or who once spent any length of time in their youth or childhood under the provision of the State or of a Charity or other organisation tasked with children's provision.
We believe you are care experienced for life- there is no age limit on being care experienced.
We also believe however you may be living right now after growing up in care makes you apart of this community. If thats living with family, sofa surfing, in a hostel or even in prison. You are still care experienced.
This includes if you grew up in any of the following ways but is not limited to:
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A Residential children's home
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"Supported” accommodation
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Foster Care
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Adoption
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Kinship/Guardianship
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Spent time in a secure Unit
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A Care Leaver
If you think we have missed a type of care experience tell us.
Care Experienced Community
We understand the care experienced community may not look like a community in the traditional sense. It is the arguably the most diverse and marginalised community to exist across the world. It is made up of every gender, race, religion, disability, class and more. What makes us a community is we all have a shared experience of 'care'.
Lived Experience
Personal knowledge about the world gained through direct, first-hand involvement in everyday events rather than through representations constructed by other people.
Ally
Someone who helps and supports other people who are part of a group that is treated badly or unfairly, although they are not themselves a member of this group.