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Jimmy Akingbola on his experience of fostering: ‘They might be the stats but they’re not everybody’s story’

Actor Jimmy Akingbola tells Nihal Arthanayake his experience of telling people he was fostered and why the narrative should change.

He says people “focus on the stats that say majority of people that have been in care end up homeless, drugs, incarceration and no health relationships…

"They might be the stats but they’re not everybody’s story”.

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