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But when Greg realizes this means he's going to be sent to a different school than his best friend, Rowley Jefferson, he changes his tune. He introduces the memoir by outlining his 34-year campaign to retrieve these records from Wigan council. But behind the scenes, as a Black woman within an industry and team with little diversity, Leigh-Anne was struggling with her identity and felt completely lost. I think this book is apt, important and given the plethora of issues still deeply rooted within the British care system, extremely relevant.It is available to all Community Care Inform subscribers and will be available to users to replay until the end of the year. Chapters are prefaced by gnomic poems, many of which speak of the resilience and hopefulness necessary to emerge from what he endured; they also help propel our thoughts towards his brighter future.

Lemn Sissay is performing My Name is Why at FORWARDS Festival, Bristol on 3 September ( forwardsbristol. My Name Is Why is authentic and beautiful, a potential game-changer in public attitudes to children raised in care. That these reports have only recently been released to Sissay should emphasise how impossible a task it was for a young man to reconcile his interior and exterior life when he was given none of the insight the adults around him purported to have (until 16, he didn’t even know that Norman Greenwood was not his real name! to this day, think that success is being able to look in the mirror and know that I'm alright on that day. I recognised much of my own childhood here--being misunderstood, even disavowed, the abuse at hands of uncaring adults, the 'underleying unkindness'.It is a harrowing insight into the early life of a man many will know through his poetry or other writing.