Welcome to Conversations from the Adoption & Fostering podcast.

This week we are talking to Whitney, a 22 year old Care Experienced Adult. We came across Whitney on Social Media, when she posted openly and honestly about her experience of being permanently excluded from education, with images of reports and information (that she had carefully concealed personal details on), and were intrigued by Whitney’s openness and honesty.

Whitney tells me all about her earlier life, and her early experiences of social workers and professionals being in her life, but unaware why, her foster care experience, homelessness, mental health, being educated in a Pupil Referral Unit (PRU), and her experiences of the court system, police, and ultimately prison.

Whitney also discusses her sibling being adopted, and how the severing of this link has affected her, and continues to.

There is much more discussed in Whitney’s story, these are just some of the topics we explore.

As ever, this is Whitney’s story, and her experience, and some listeners may see similarities in some of their experiences, but Whitney was clear that she wanted to share in the detail she has, and is fully supported in that from her Support Network.

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