Byron Vincent’s personal experience of poverty and childhood trauma or (ACEs), including extreme violence. crime, drugs and homelessness, shapes his work as a writer, performed and broadcaster. We discuss how young people from “sink estates” like Byron’s are moulded by their environment, the low expectations placed upon them and the lack of opportunities available. We also discuss how social media exploits our negative emotions (and how this is a particular risk to young people), changes to mental health services over the last generation, and Byron’s upcoming neurodiversity festival at Southbank in 2022, in which he hopes to raise awareness and support other neurodiverse young people.

Listen to Byron’s brilliant ‘The Trouble with Social Mobility’ feature for BBC Sounds here https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001y8x

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