The Pan London Children in Care Council is funded by the Association of London Directors of Children’s Services in partnership with the City of London Corporation – for more details please see this link https://www.partnershipforyounglondon.org.uk/cicc or contact louisa.foyle@cityoflondon.gov.uk please share widely across your networks.
Rising as Me
Louisa Foyle
Pan London Children in Care Council
There’s a moment in every care experienced person’s life when you stop surviving as someone’s story and start rising as your own. For too long the word care has been defined by systems, not by us. But this month we reclaim it. We rise as our whole selves’ complex, creative, independent, and free.
“Rising As Me” is about identity beyond the paperwork. It’s about learning that you are not your file, your placement, or your past you are your becoming. https://vimeo.com/1133211613/a14c6d2c9d?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci
Freedom Talkers is a podcast created by and for care experienced people a space to speak truth, challenge systems, and celebrate survival. Each episode dives into stories of identity, opportunity, and the Pan London Offer where we are trying to make offers consistent across London for all care leavers.
Freedom Talkers is about building bridges
between care and community,
between policy and people
between who we were told to be and who we’ve decided to become.
https://vimeo.com/1133547505/f74683ee37?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci
Black Bold and Beautiful
Black, Bold and Beautiful is a poem written by Louisa Foyle. Lived truth in verse.
a poem born from the inbetween:
between girlhood and motherhood
between belonging and being displaced
between silence and song.
It’s about identity
not the one given to her
but the one she claimed,
shaped through resilience rhythm, and radical self love.
This poem isn’t just words
it’s a movement.
For every young person who was ever labelled
for every Black girl who turned survival into art
for every care leaver still finding her voice.
I am Black,
I am bold,
I am beautiful
and I am becoming
https://vimeo.com/1133221098/fbcff8f778
Accessing Care: Hope and Change for Care Experienced Young People
This video, produced by Pan London Children In Care Council and Aran Knowles, was commissioned by NHS North East London ICB.
This short film gives us an insight on the perspectives of young care-experienced Londoners and the struggles of accessing healthcare. We look at the challenges and expore examples of good practise in place across North East London.
A huge thank you everyone involved for their participation in this project!
https://vimeo.com/1128315566/63fe24e4d6?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci