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It takes a city

It takes a city Editorial Adoption & Fostering 2023, Vol. 47(1) 3–5 ! The Author(s) 2023 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/03085759231163585 journals.sagepub.com/home/aaf Dennis Golm Editor-in-Chief First, I would like to start this editorial by expressing a heartfelt ‘Thank you’ to Roger Bullock for handing over his torch to me; I hope to do him justice. I am delighted to be the new Editor-in-Chief of a journal that shines through its multidisciplinary contributors and readership. With this in mind, I thought a good way of starting my editorship would be to reflect on what the journal embodies and how this relates to children with care experience. An old African proverb states that it takes a village to raise a child. This saying indicates that each child benefits from support from outside their core family unit. Often this may include a social network of relatives, family friends, peers and mentors such as teachers. The reality of a child in the care system may look quite different. In the UK, most of these children will have experienced neglect or abuse within their birth family (Department for Education [DfE], 2022). Some will have experienced adversity before they were even born in the form of exposure to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Adoption & Fostering SAGE

It takes a city

Golm, Dennis
Adoption & Fostering , Volume 47 (1): 3 – Mar 1, 2023
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Editorial Adoption & Fostering 2023, Vol. 47(1) 3–5 ! The Author(s) 2023 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/03085759231163585 journals.sagepub.com/home/aaf Dennis Golm Editor-in-Chief First, I would like to start this editorial by expressing a heartfelt ‘Thank you’ to Roger Bullock for handing over his torch to me; I hope to do him justice. I am delighted to be the new Editor-in-Chief of a journal that shines through its multidisciplinary contributors and readership. With this in mind, I thought a good way of starting my editorship would be to reflect on what the journal embodies and how this relates to children with care experience. An old African proverb states that it takes a village to raise a child. This saying indicates that each child benefits from support from outside their core family unit. Often this may include a social network of relatives, family friends, peers and mentors such as teachers. The reality of a child in the care system may look quite different. In the UK, most of these children will have experienced neglect or abuse within their birth family (Department for Education [DfE], 2022). Some will have experienced adversity before they were even born in the form of exposure to

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