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Fighting For My Niece

Entrepreneur Simon fights to become his teenage niece's legal guardian after she was placed in care. Grace Dent presents.

38-year-old entrepreneur Simon fights to become his teenage niece's legal guardian after she was placed in care.

Until last year, Simon was a highly successful businessman with a city lifestyle to match. Then his business went under - and with it his sense of purpose in life. At around the same time his 13-year-old niece was placed into local authority care because of her mother's drug use. Simon resolves to get his niece out of care and become her legal guardian - but it involves a fraught legal process and a massive life change.

Presenter: Grace Dent
Producer: Laurence Grissell

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28 minutes

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Mon 27 May 2019 23:30
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