Yusuf Paul McCormack: ‘I would have loved somebody older to have said – you’re going to be OK’

A care leaver who faced terrible abuse growing up in a care home 50 years ago explains why he now talks about his experiencesTwo black jackets hang in Yusuf Paul McCormack’s front room, each decorated with scores of luggage tags. The labels all bear words and short phrases: damaged goods, misfit, odious, stupid.These terms, which include racist slurs, were all applied to him growing up in care, McCormack, 56, explains. One, “number 10”, was assigned to him when he arrived at th