A Child to Love – Leaving Esme

Esme has fostered 50 children and adopted 6. One of them, Jermaine, who has Asperger’s syndrome, came to her when he was 12. Now he is 18 and Esme wants him to become independent and move out. He doesn’t want to go. It’s a household like no other. Her motivation is disarmingly simple. “I just love to see kids happy”. How does she make it work, and what is it like for the children?

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS

Clare Paterson

Edmund Coulthard

PRODUCER / DIRECTORS

Laurence Turnbull

FIRST TX

1 x 60’ 2005

BROADCASTER

Channel 4