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Casey Armstrong has defied the odds of many young care leavers - but her journey through foster care, being forced from a home she loved, came at a huge personal cost.

It was her love of physics and science which inspired her to pull herself out of a life plagued by drink and drugs and to finally find a ‘normal life’ at university studying her favourite subject.

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Children in care are far less likely to achieve good GCSEs or go to university. A quarter of the prison population has been in care.
The author of a landmark report into children's social care in England has told this programme the government must commit to radical reform of the whole system - a system failing some of the most vulnerable children in care.

The review's recommendations will cost an extra £2.6 billion pounds over the next four years.

We also speak to Josh MacAlister, chair of The Independent Care Review - he's put forward a raft of recommendations to overhaul a system few argue is working.

A Department for Education spokesperson told us: "Every child deserves the security of a safe and loving home" and said the government will shortly publish what they described as ambitious reform plans for children's social care."

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