You grow

up in that environment, continually in fight and flight mode, and the trauma rarely goes away.

I mean, even now I have to work on my, what I call my healing work, because it's very difficult, even though as young kids, you don't really get taught how to do the healing work.

When you reach a certain age, that's your responsibility, right? It's all our responsibility.

You don't have to be in the care system to have experienced trauma.

But what we do have the responsibility is to heal ourselves.

So my routine is all about the three M's, movement, mindset and mindfulness.

It's just

South Ockendon.

Right.

So Auntie Ray, I mean, I always used to call her the tickle monster.

And the reason why I called her the tickle monster was because when she came on duty in the mornings to get us ready for school, I would hide under the bed sheets and Auntie Ray would leave me last one to wake up and she would tickle me.

Right.

And that's when I knew my day had started, right? Yeah.

Yeah.

bit of

[laughs] Of course.

So the whistle went again, and the umpire said, "I've told you once.

If I've gotta tell you again, you're off." So I kinda turned around and started muttering under my voice, and the team captain, Donna, on the opposite team said, "Fats, don't.

She's really strict.

She will definitely send you off." "Okay, all, all right." Anyway, ended the match.

We won.

Yay.

[laughs]

A huge change about to come

... trying to process that in your mind at five years old.

It's, it's just, you know, mind-boggling, and I didn't sleep at all.

Well, obviously, I questioned why it was that I was leaving the only home I ever knew, and the children, uh, were my family.

It was quite a scary moment.

And of course, I was eager to find out who this person was.

So 9:00, I sat down in the foyer, and I had my eyes firmly on the opaque glass window, uh, door.

But that same year, a tabloid newspaper in Britain published a story that forced Fatima to confront her past once again.

107 children every day going into the system.

Well, yes, 100, I mean, 33% of all local authorities are seeing a weekly increase.

I mean, we have 110,000 in the care system as we speak, uh, it's frightening really.

But, uh, the care system as we see it, it currently doesn't serve the purpose it should.

Uh, they work in silos, and therefore, uh, um, you know, that collaboration and partnership that, which we're doing to bring and harness the power of one voice, will, uh, actually, uh, be able to help set them up for success and not further damage them as it currently is at the moment.

What, what would you be looking to point at?

Well, it's, it's our first annual summit.

Uh, it's like a G20.