Revisiting Diary Entries from Care: An Exposition of the Challenges of Unregulated Placement Settings

In September 2020, the Children’s Commissioner for England published a report entitled ‘Unregulated: Children in care living in semi-independent accommodation’, which concluded that some of the country’s most vulnerable looked after children were living in accommodation unfit for human habitation. This observation encapsulates my experience of residing in such a placement between 2009 and 2011. In this article, I refer to diary entries I made...