I was in Care due to family problems and was taken into care by my local authority. Everyone’s experience of being in care is so different. If I could summarise it to you in one sentence, it’s sometimes a safe haven for some young people who go into a home and share the space with a loving caring family; or it can be the most traumatic experience having to share a house with 12 to 20 or sometimes even more young people who are going through their hardest stage of life, where pain, anger, loss, feelings of abandonment are visible everywhere. Every care-experienced young person’s experience is different, therefore it’s hard to describe what’s it like being in care.