New Year, No Home: The Hidden Life of Kids in Care

This episode aims to explain how the intensive therapeutic care, motels and emergency placements actually work on the ground, and why they often fail to provide safety or stability.

• Humanise the statistics through vivid storytelling that follows a young person’s New Year in care, making listeners feel the emotional stakes behind the headlines.

• Explore what reforms are on the table, why change is so slow, and what communities, carers and policymakers can practically do to shift the story.