Over the years, Joe’s magnetic personality and infectious warmth has endeared him to millions of TV viewers on EastEnders, I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here and Dancing on Ice, but now he is delving into something more serious, and more personal - the untold stories of Britain’s teens in care.

Joe Swash: Teens in Care is a 60-minute documentary following Joe as he explores the stories of teens in care over the age of 16, who are the largest growing cohort in both child protection and care.

The number of children aged 16 and over in care has increased by 37% in the last decade alone*, and Joe wants to know more. His motivation to make this documentary is deeply personal; it’s an issue that is close to his and his family’s heart.

His Mum Kiffy has been a foster carer for over 15 years. Joe has always been passionate about his mum’s role and with his wife, Stacey, is considering fostering in the future, but his interest in the care system has really peaked in recent years.

One of the young people Kiffy has fostered, and who Joe is very close to, has just turned 18. Over the last couple of years Joe has seen first-hand the unique challenges this young person has faced as a teen in care.

Now Joe wants to highlight these issues and spend time with teens across the UK who live in foster care and in residential children’s homes, to show what growing up as a teenager in care is really like.

His journey of discovery follows the long-awaited publication of the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care, which promises a "once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform the children’s social care system and provide children with loving, safe and stable families". But can it really get to the root of the problems facing teens in care?

This poignant, emotive documentary sees Joe spend time with teens who are at different stages of their lives in care, some in foster care, others in residential care and some who have left at 18 and trying to make it alone.

In addition to spending time with teens, Joe meets experts and policy makers to ask what they are doing to fix a system that he feels appears to be failing the young people it’s supposed to be caring for, establish the root causes and explore where the signs of optimism are.

And through this experience he also sees first-hand the work of foster carers and the army of front-line workers who are dedicated to helping teens in care, as he seeks to find out how some of the issues teens encounter in the care system can be tackled better.