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Drawn from the author's experience over decades working within the social care system in the UK, Fractured Care gives an honest, uncompromising and challenging view of the impacts that the current system has on the lives of children and young people with a particular focus on those who are looked after. Fractured Care is a virtual step back to help view the bigger picture rather than focusing on individual elements, but it is also a rallying call to champion a better way of supporting those who find themselves looked after, by analysing the issues challenging the children and young people, the system itself and those working within it. For those who have experience of the care system it will provide familiar elements that will undoubtedly recall to memory personal examples of the issues highlighted and faced daily. For those with less direct experience it will open up an often hidden world of vulnerable young people who desperately need higher levels of care, along with the frustrations and challenges workers face to make a real difference. Fractured Care challenges the core integrity and direction of the system dealing with looked-after young people, not just to aspire for better, but to affect significant change for the lives of those currently in care and of future generations.

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CJ Thompson has worked for over two decades with children who have experienced damage, abuse and trauma. He has worked with some of the most challenging and damaged young people in the UK and on occasions from other countries as well. He has worked in community projects and independent organisations as well as education, social care and youth justice.

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