Children's stories: a GP perspective

The actor Samantha Morton has just directed her first film about a girl growing up in a children's home, which Samantha Morton did herself. She has just spoken publicly about her criminal conviction, while in the home, for the attempted murder of someone who harassed and provoked her consistently. She spoke out because she has been so affected by the recent Commons Select Committee report (2009) which warned that the state is failing to adequately protect children in care from sexual exploitation, homelessness and falling into crime, and concluded that there had to be greater investment in children in care.