The Children’s Inquiry

Taking first-hand experiences from young people, social workers, politicians, foster carers, care leavers and transforming them into lyrics, this verbatim musical investigates and questions the system using words from those who have lived it.

Jelica has been told by social workers she’s a success story, Frank is on his eighth foster home and, at their school, no one knows Amber and Angelica are in care.

Spanning over one hundred years of the system’s development starting in 1896, these teenagers will travel through time stopping at workhouses, meeting evacuees, child migrants and care leavers on their quest to discover the truth about the state of children’s care in this country.

The foursome ask difficult questions about the past in the hope they can come up with answers to the future.