Shelly Reed

Exposure

“I came into care when I was nine years old and, because of the circumstances, it was an emergency removal.

The police took me and my brother to wait in the police station whilst an on duty social worker tried frantically to find us a place to stay that night.

When we arrived at the station it was around 10pm and I was only young so, as you may imagine, this felt like the early hours of the morning.”