Free Loaves on Fridays contains stories, letters and poems from care-experienced people aged 13 to 68.
Published today (18 April), the book, edited by Rebekah Pierre, care-experienced social worker and professional officer at the British Association of Social Workers (BASW), features both seasoned writers like Lemn Sissay, as well as those who have put pen to paper for the very first time.
It aims to counteract headlines written about care-experienced people which “often entrench negative stereotypes and dominate the narrative, leaving care-experienced people with nothing but crumbs”, Pierre explained.
She added: “For far too long, care-experienced people have been the subject, but rarely the author of our own words in assessments, files, and reports.
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