Holding/Holding On - Warning, Content and Support Organisation Information

Care in Contemporary Scotland- Archive

This filmed reading contains strong content that relates to experiences within the care system and references to violence and sexual assault. Themes in the piece are:

  • separation from siblings
  • family contact
  • voice - not being listened to
  • sexual, physical and emotional abuse
  • residential care
  • foster care
  • kinship care
  • poverty
  • the right to feel loved
  • Scottish Government's Independent Care Review and The Promise
  • being "othered"
  • education


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