Care Day
This year, Care Day will be on Friday 21 February – the world’s biggest celebration of children and young people with care experience! We’ve been leading the campaign in England since the event first began in 2015.
2025: Care Day
This year, Care Day will be on Friday 21 February. The Become theme, voted for by Become the Movement, is Voices that Care.
For Care Day 2025, we want to show that there are many people who care about children and young people with care experience and together, we can make the care system better.
You can get involved by:
- Showing how you care: Write ‘I Care’ on the palm of your hand and take a selfie to share on social media along with a caption explaining how you care. This could be by making a donation, running a marathon to raise money, working in the care system, or supporting one of our campaigns! If you’re a care-experienced young person, we’d love to hear your story of why you want to change the care system for the better. Don’t forget to add #CareDay
- Get clued up on care: Visit our ‘About the care system‘ page to help bust any myths you may have, learn more about what it’s like to be in care and hear from care experienced young people on our Community pages.
Care Day is a joint initiative across five charities, which are now known as the 5 Nations 1 Voice (5N1V) alliance. The 5N1V alliance includes, Become (England), Who Cares? Scotland, Voices from Care (Wales), Voice of Young People in Care (Northern Ireland), and EPIC (Ireland).
2024: Care Day
Care Day 2024 is on 16 February, with Who Cares? Scotland, EPIC from Ireland, VOYPIC from Northern Ireland, and Voices of Children in Care Cymru. Join us in:
💜 Celebrating and connecting the care-experienced community
Ways you can get involved:
- Raise awareness of Care Day – tell people you know online & offline.
- Put your hands up for Care Day: Take a selfie photo with ‘#CareDay 2024′ and your location written on your palm.
- Learn about & challenge stereotypes and stigma around care experience.
- Encourage MPs to respond to our invitation of a screening in Parliament of two short films based on distance moves in care.
- Download our comms pack below for example tweets and graphics you can share.
Encourage your MP to respond to our screening of two short films based on distance moves in care.
On March 19, Become will be at the House of Lords to present a screening of our #GoneTooFar film, which asks members of the public how they would feel if they were moved far away from the people and places that matter to them.
We’ll be joined by Hackney of Tomorrow, Hackney Council’s children in care council, who’ll also be showing their short film, Raw Gods, which follows a teenager in care the moment they are moved to somewhere they don’t know, miles from their family and friends, and the impact that has.
We’ve invited MPs to attend the screening and this Care Day, we invite you to share our posts (Twitter/X, Instagram), tag your MP underneath or write to your MP to urge them to attend. Thank you.
2023: What I want you to #KnowAboutCare
Our aim, in 2023, was to challenge common misconceptions about care and tackle the stigma and prejudice that care-experienced young people face by amplifying what young people themselves want YOU to #KnowAboutCare.
Over 360 people shared their #KnowAboutCare messages, reaching 2.1 million people.
Check out the gallery below to read some of the messages shared.
Read messages from Kim, Matt, Shaunna, and Casey on what they want you to #KnowAboutCare...
Vision boards
We held a session, in the run-up to Care Day, with care-experienced young people to discuss the theme for Care Day 2023: What I want you to #KnowAboutCare.
As well as young people writing what they wanted others to #KnowAboutCare, Lucinda, Zahra and Cleo also made vision boards to creatively show what they want people to understand. We spoke about feeling out of place (represented by a pink puzzle piece on Zahra’s board). Other topics came up such as challenges, support, and fulfillment.
Thanks to everyone who came along to the session!
Back in 2022...
Care Day is the world’s biggest celebration of children and young people with care experience and Become has been leading the campaign in England since it first began in 2015. It’s an event where the 5 Nations (Become, EPIC, VOYPIC, Who Cares? Scotland and Voices From Care Cymru) come together to celebrate care experienced children and young people, their stories and their achievements.
In 2022, the theme was: Together We Create Community
Care Day 2022 Events
Care Day 2022 Poetry Link-Up Special
To celebrate Care Day, we held a poetry special Link Up with poet Adisa the Verbaliser with a theme of ‘Celebration’ on Tuesday 15th February.
Conversations with the Care Community
Care Experienced people from across Scotland, Ireland, England, Wales & Northern Ireland joined together to explore the theme of community.
Listen to the podcast
Jasmine shares why the Link-Up community matters to her for Care Day
What does the Link-Up community mean to Jasmine?