BBC Teach | Supporting Care-Experienced Children

Mosaic have created a series of short films for BBC Teach which focus on the experience of care-experienced children, especially at school.

Designed to help primary and secondary teachers support care-experienced young people, three films are short animations, using the powerful real-life testimony of three care-experienced young people:

Molly’s Story - Navigating School When You are Adopted
Tai’s Story - The Impact of Going into Foster Care
Elliot’s Story - Being Moved Around the Care System.

Alongside the animations are three teacher-training films, featuring interviews with experts in the fields of adoption, care and teaching. These explore some of the challenges care-experienced children are more likely to face than their peers, both in and out of school, and what provisions a school can make to better support them.

The BBC Teach series will show how positive relationships with peers or members of staff can improve a child’s experience of school and therefore help transform their lives.

“This pioneering resource from BBC Teach features first-hand, frank and emotional testimony from young people who’ve experienced care and expertly shot teacher training videos featuring the UK’s leading experts. The result is a powerful collection of short films for schools which we believe challenges stereotypes, celebrates the resilience and success of the young people featured and helps teachers support care-experienced young people.” - Alex Harris, Executive Producer at BBC Teach.

The series can be viewed (by those in the UK) on BBC Teach here

Special thanks to our contributors, Matthew Blood, Rebecca Brooks, Stuart Guest, Rachel Hiller, Tyrone Sinclair, Bea Stevenson, 'Tai', Elliot and Molly.

Additional thanks to the people and organisations who've supported this project, including Clare Tyler, Natasha Evans, Adoption UK, Coram, PAC-UK, Shaping Portsmouth, Isablle Kirkham and the care-experienced young people who spoke with us

Credits:

Creative & Executive Producer: Andy Glynne
Producers: Elisabeth Watts, Natalia Perez
Animation Director: Jenny Lewis
Editor & Sound Design: David McNulty
Educational Consultant: Lucy Marcovitch