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Louise Allen

Louise Allen

British writer

Jul 15, 2026

10:35
away,
10:36
and I think this is partly why he went away, she took it upon herself without consulting the children's department, as it was called then, to send us back to where we came from because she'd had enough of us.
10:49
And she wanted to focus just on her birth son, who we used to call Prince, and just get rid of us.
10:59
And she was into animals and things.
11:01
We had a bit of a smallholding.
11:02
So she thought that if we connected with our birth family and we bonded, she could just send us back.
11:09
It didn't work like that.

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31:51
And I love these stories saying, how do we create more inspiration? And I don't have the answer.
PollyHOST
7:30
Yeah
7:30
-is about how...
7:31
You know, 'cause I work in the creative industries, that you by saying nothing, nothing changes.
7:36
So when I came into fostering, I became vocal, but I, I was still just being my normal self.
7:42
And I think what I started to see was really good people, amazing foster carers, feeling like they were pushing mountains really slowly to get what they needed for the children and young people.
8:00
And I...
8:02
Yeah, I guess that I would always ask the governments and the people who make decisions, the policymakers, to try and walk in our shoes for a bit, because you'll get the best advice, the best solutions, the best of everything when you talk to the people.

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PollyHOST
43:09
Yeah.

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