Millicent is 21, neurodivergent, and disabled. She is passionate about advocating for and supporting care-experienced people by improving access to higher education and employment opportunities. She recently left the Unite Foundation as a community relations specialist, having passionately supported the All of Us community group of care-experienced and estranged young people, where she founded the All of Us Employment Group to help increase opportunities within the community. 

Kirsty is a passionate advocate for children and young people who are in care experienced. This passion serves from being in foster care herself as a teenager. Kirsty left school with no qualifications due to navigating the complexities of being in care. She went back to studying after the birth of her first child aged 18 and qualified as a youth and community worker and went on to gain a 1st class honours degree in social work. 

Kirsty is now a social worker and team manager working in a child protection team in a local Authority where she manages a team of social workers, family support worker and students. Kirsty hoped that by becoming a social worker she could make small changes to the system having experienced it herself by educating social workers around the importance of the relationship with each child and the importance of the use of language when talking to and writing about children and how their actions impact children now and in the future. 

Kirsty has recently written a piece in the book Free Loaves on Friday in which she wrote a letter to her younger self. Most importantly Kirsty biggest achievement is being a mummy to two children.