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

Partnership for Young London (PYL) has proudly hosted the Pan‑London Children in Care Council (CiCC) on behalf of the City of London and the Association of London Directors of Children’s Services (ALDCS) for the last five years. Our Care‑Experienced Development Leads have coordinated this programme, bringing their lived experience into every stage of design and delivery. Through strategic partnerships, creative engagement, and ongoing advocacy, we have continued working to in

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

Rising as Me by Louisa Foyle Pan London Children in Care Council There’s a moment in every care experienced person’s life when you stop surviving as someone’s story and start rising as your own. For too long the word care has been defined by systems, not by us. But this month we reclaim it. We rise as our whole selves’ complex, creative, independent, and free. “Rising As Me” is about identity beyond the paperwork. It’s about learning that you are not your file, your place