EVERY CHILD IN CARE HAS A FILE.
BUT NO FILE TELLS THE WHOLE STORY.
Aisha Summers knows the care system from both sides. Once a child in care herself, she is now a social worker responsible for protecting those growing up within it. Battling a dependence on alcohol and a past she has spent years trying to bury, Aisha makes the decision to get sober and confront what she has been running from.
The Forgotten Files goes behind the closed doors of residential children's care, revealing a world of fractured families, exploitation, loyalty, survival and the desperate need to belong.
Inspired by true experiences, it's a raw British drama about the lives behind the paperwork and what happens when the system built to protect a child fails to truly see them.
A social worker shaped by the care system she now works within. Haunted by her past while fighting to protect others.
Aisha
Summers
A teenager returned to care after his adoptive placement breaks down. Guarded and restless, he searches for belonging in the wrong places.
Jaeden
Lawson
A familiar face on the estate with an easy charm and a dangerous edge. Damian knows exactly how to make himself trusted.
Damian
Nester
AN ORIGINAL BRITISH DRAMA
THE TRUTH DOESN'T ALWAYS MAKE THE FILE.
The Forgotten Files takes us behind the closed doors of Britain's children's care system, where the lives recorded on paper are far more complicated than the records left behind.