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Name: | Mark Ormerod |
Age: | 16 |
Year of the Fix: | 2015 |
Location: | Lancashire |
Campaign: | To challenge negative stereotypes of young people in care |
I’ve been in and out of the care system since I was about three.
Whenever I’ve told people, their first reaction has been sympathy. They automatically think that my life must be awful – it’s not!
Nobody chooses to grow up in care, but it certainly doesn’t make you different or any less able than anyone else.
In fact, it gives many young people a sense of belonging - they know they’re not alone.
My team and I are working with Fixers to challenge the negative stereotypes that can be attached to looked-after young people.
We want to show that growing up in care doesn’t give people the right to judge you, or treat you differently.
Here is a list of Fixers helping me with this Fix:
Kathryn Ormerod
Anthony Gayther
Bradley Wilson
Callum Griffin
Jade Nichol
Mishka Taylor
Robinn Brown
Sam Womack
Barnado's
Debbie Nolan-Plunkett, Children’s Services Manager at Barnado's, supports our Fix. She offered her expert opinion in our broadcast piece.
Thanks to J.P Fishwick, Eveline Egerton, Jenny Grover, Matt Smith and Charres Brown for agreeing to be interviewed for the TV item.
Rebecca Wilkinson, Georger Dallinger and Bethany Hartley from the Children in Care Council, have also contributed to the project.
As has Samuel Richardson from LINX, an organisation that works with young people in the care system.
'Kate'
Fixers
Olivia G
Hannah Carter
Ben Simms
Tilly and Bella
Ethan Mcinally
Shano
Shannon Rawlings
Lauren Taylor
'Ben'
Jo Quinn
Me and my friends want young people to know that calories aren't the enemy!
Timothy Cranfield
Hannah Baker
Jade Kingdom
Fern Lulham
Macauley Collinson
Becky
Mason Latey
Sam Womack
Meghann
Mary-Anne White and Lucy Wills
Hafsa Ur-Rehman