Not To Blame Quotes

“At the time this book was set, Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder wasn’t widely known about. Now it’s thought to be the most common, non-genetic cause of learning disability in the UK. Research suggests that every year 7,000 babies in the UK are born with FASD. Adolescents and adults with FASD are overrepresented in the criminal justice system and more than 70 per cent of children with FASD have been in the care system. There is now a specialist clinic in the UK for assessing and treating children and adults with FASD.”
― Maggie Hartley, Not To Blame: Rejected by everyone, can loving foster carer Maggie reach a troubled girl?

“Marion worked in a special needs school for years and she realised that once children with learning difficulties in the care system reach sixteen, there’s very little provision for them going forward. They’re either put into assisted living and struggle or else they’re put into care homes and end up completely institutionalised.”
― Maggie Hartley, Not To Blame: Rejected by everyone, can loving foster carer Maggie reach a troubled girl?