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Resources

Become has a respected track record of producing resources which support young people in care and the adults in their lives.

Resources

Magazines
Become and Become Junior magazines
We are extremely proud of Become and Become Junior (previously Who Cares? and Who Cares Junior). Our magazines for children and young people in care are fun, hard-hitting, ambitious, and essential.
Publications
Care Advice Line Flyer
This free flyer provides information about the Care Advice Line, Become's help and advice service for children in care and young care leavers.
Publications
Become Flyer
This free flyer provides information about Become's services for children in care and young care leavers.
Publications
Propel Flyer
This free flyer provides information about Propel, Become's online education resource for young care leavers.
Publications
Propel Poster
This free poster provides information about Propel, Become's online education resource for young care leavers.
Reports, Research
I Wish You Knew
For Care Day 2019, we developed the findings from Teachers Who Care into a resource highlighting six things children in care wish teachers to know about their experience.
Reports, Research
Teachers Who Care (2018)
Teachers Who Care is a research report from Become and Voices from Care Cymru, reporting on our findings from a survey of teachers about their experiences teaching children in care.
Publications, Reports, Research
Perceptions of Care (2017)
Perceptions of Care is a report produced in 2016/17 by Become and Voices from Care as part of the 5 Nations 1 Voice project, funded by the Big Lottery. It explores how children in care and young care leavers think other people, including teachers and social workers think about care.
Publications
Care Advice Line Factsheets
Free to download, these factsheets for children in care and young care leavers - or those supporting them - cover essential issues including managing money, how the care system works and what young care leavers are entitled to.
Publications, Reports
Principles of Care (2015)
Principles of Care, published in spring 2015, sets out our vision for the care system.
Reports
Staying Put in Residential Care (2014)
Become (then The Who Cares? Trust), Action for Children, Barnardo’s, the National Children’s Bureau, residential provider the Together Trust and the Centre for Child and Family Research at Loughborough University collaborated in 2014 on a project exploring the support that should be provided to young people who leave care from a children's home.
Reports
The Care Inquiry (2013)
The Care Inquiry is a collaboration of specialist charities representing all care options for these children
Reports
The views and recommendations of children and young people involved in the Care Inquiry (2013)
As part of the Care Inquiry, The Who Cares? Trust consulted children and young people with experience of all different forms of care (adoption, fostering, kinship care and residential care)
Reports
Understanding Permanence for Looked After Children (2013)
This briefing paper reviews research relevant to understanding permanence for children who are ‘looked after’ under the auspices of the Children Act 1989, to inform the aims of the Care Inquiry.
Reports
Open Doors, Open Minds (2012)
Open Doors, Open Minds was a project run by The Who Cares? Trust in 2011/12 which explored the barriers that prevent young people in and from care pursuing and completing courses of study in further and higher education.
Policy responses, Reports, Policy and lobbying
Consultation response to 'Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision’
Consultation response to 'Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision’
Policy responses, Reports, Policy and lobbying
Consultation response to the Fostering Stocktake by Become
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