Roger Roberts | Author | Care-Experienced Commentator | Speaker

The story hidden for more than seventy years

At the age of 81, Roger Roberts finally obtained access to his childhood welfare records.

What he discovered changed everything.

For decades Roger believed he understood the story of his childhood. Raised in foster care after being abandoned as a young child, he carried unanswered questions throughout his life. Only when he gained access to hundreds of pages of official records from London County Council and other authorities did a different picture begin to emerge.

Those records revealed decisions, correspondence, warnings and family truths that had remained hidden for more than seventy years.

The result is A Childhood Crushed, a powerful memoir that combines personal experience, historical records and family research to explore childhood in care during post-war Britain.

Today Roger speaks about:

• Children in care   

• Foster care

• Adoption

• Family separation

• Access to care records

• Child welfare history

• Growing up in post-war Britain

Whether through writing, interviews or public discussion, his aim is simple:

To ensure that the experiences of children in care are not forgotten.

His Featured Book

A Childhood Crushed

A powerful true story of childhood in care, family separation and the search for truth through official records.

Buy the Book Here       Contact Roger Here