Every child who is in care will have a different story to tell.
As a result, the recent BBC Taking Care season focused on real life for children in the UK who had been or are living in care. My part in the season was to direct the documentary No Place Like Home. The programme makers wanted to hear from children in care - to sort fact from fiction and try to understand the chain of events that can lead to children living separately from their families.
The film follows the personal journeys of three teenagers. Shaun, 15, has been sent to a foster placement on a remote farm in Wales to try to help him come off drugs. "I'm tempted to do anything to get drugs, rob anything," he admits. "Anything I see, I want to sell it for drugs - just steal, steal, steal." Fourteen-year-old Charlotte, on the other hand, has been in care since she was seven.
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