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Fever, Fred
At 13 he was reunited with his birth family but it was a disaster and he returned to care. He became depressed and was in trouble at school; at one point he tried to kill himself.
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Eventually he straightened himself out and is now on the staff of Who Cares?, an advocacy group for children in care, and a social services inspector for the government. He is also active (1999) in a class-action suit against the social service authorities responsible for his abuse, the largest such suit in British legal history, with over 200 complainants.
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