The Coming to Care: The Work and Family Lives of Workers Caring forVulnerable Children study by the Thomas Coram Research Unit at theInstitute of Education looked at why people entered and stayed in carework. It found an unhappy childhood did not deter people from doing carework and actually enabled them to "empathise with similarly unlovedchildren and have real compassion for them".
Julia Brannen, co-author of the report, said local authorities trainingcare workers should "take into account people's experiences". But shesaid there would be a concern if a care worker who had an unhappychildhood had "not properly worked through their experiences".
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