FREEDOM TALKERS is a podcast created by and for care experienced people a space to speak truth, challenge systems, and celebrate survival.    Each episode dives into stories of identity, opportunity, and the Pan London Offer where we are trying to make offers consistent across London for all care leavers.   Shining a light on what real freedom looks like when care leavers take the mic.   This isn’t charity talk. It’s change talk.   We’re amplifying voices that have too often

This video, produced by Pan London Children In Care Council and Aran Knowles, was commissioned by NHS North East London ICB.   This short film gives us an insight on the perspectives of young care-experienced Londoners and the struggles of accessing healthcare. We look at the challenges and explore examples of good practice in place across North East London.    A huge thank you everyone involved for their participation in this project! Click here to see the full video.

Blog by Mamatha My personal experience  Growing up, I was bullied not just for who I was, but for the colour of my skin. The racist comments, the exclusion, the subtle looks they chipped away at my confidence and made me question my worth.   I carried that pain for a long time. I remember feeling invisible, convinced that silence was safer than speaking out. But silence didn’t protect me it only gave the bullying more space to grow.   It took years, reflection, and support fr

Black, Bold and Beautiful is a poem written by Louisa Foyle. Lived truth in verse. a poem born from the inbetween: between girlhood and motherhood between belonging and being displaced between silence and song. It’s about identity not the one given to her but the one she claimed, shaped through resilience rhythm, and radical self love.   This poem isn’t just words it’s a movement. For every young person who was ever labelled for every Black girl who turned survival into art f