Joe Swash was so moved by the “heartbreaking” situation he discovered as he investigated England’s crumbling children’s care system that he wanted to look after all the teenagers he met.
The TV actor and presenter was motivated to make a BBC documentary by a Government review into kids’ social care, which found the system has been woefully underfunded for more than a decade by successive Tory governments.
And he has a personal reason for wanting to get involved – his own mother, Kiffy, has been a foster carer for 15 years,
