The book, Free Loaves on Fridays, will contain essays by people with experience of the care system, as well as other creative pieces of writing submitted following an open call for submissions.
Free Loaves on Fridays, which will be published by Unbound, a crowd-funded publisher, with proceeds going to children’s rights charity Article 39 and the Together Trust.
Pierre, who has written for publications like The Guardian and The Independent, tells CYP Now why the project is so important for those with care-experience:
What is behind the name of the book Free Loaves On Fridays?
When I lived in the unregulated placement, every Friday we’d get a free loaf from the local bread factory and it was a real highlight of the week, a lot of time I was living in poverty and was living off free school meals.
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