The former football coach and youth worker on how he became a foster carer aged 25 and set up a children’s home during the pandemic
Growing up on a south London estate in the early 2000s, Trevor Elliott believed there were just four ways his future was likely to pan out: drugs, prison, gangs or crime.
Little did he know that by the age of 25, he would become one of the UK’s youngest foster carers – far below the average age of 45 to 54 – and that just four years later, he would win an MBE for his services to vulnerable children.
