Aged just 15, Jade was moved from Lewisham, in south east London, to a private children’s home in Blackpool, hundreds of miles from her family, friends and the city she grew up in. The move happened quickly, and though Jade was initially only supposed to be in Blackpool for two weeks, she was forced to stay there for a-year-and a-half.
“I don’t feel like I ever fully settled into Blackpool. I just coped,” she said, adding that she felt powerless over the situation.
“I could scream and shout about how I don’t want to be in Blackpool and shouldn’t be here, but unfortunately that’s how the system’s been created. Young people in the system, we don’t always get a say in how our own lives turn out, which is so unfair.”
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