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

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Publications, Policy and lobbying

A system that cares: A manifesto for care-experienced children and young people

In light of the upcoming general election, we are asking each party to ensure that care-experienced children and young people are priorities in their manifestos.

Policy responses, Reports

Submission to the Department for Education’s ‘Children’s home workforce: call for evidence’ (2019)

Given Become’s role, we responded to the questions most relevant to children in care, drawing on what young people with experience of residential care tell us about their experiences to argue for changes which will make a difference to the quality of care they receive.

Policy responses, Reports

Submission to the Education Committee inquiry into the children’s social care workforce (2019)

Our response to the Education Committee inquiry into the children’s social care workforce is significantly informed by what we hear from young people in care through our direct support work, research and listening activity. We also made comment, where appropriate, on wider inquiry questions relating to the capacity of the social care workforce.

Policy responses

Response to Ofsted Education Inspection Framework Consultation (2019)

School is a key part of all children’s lives. For looked after children, school may be one of the few places they find safety, support and stability, but it might also be an environment in which they experience additional vulnerability.

Reports, Research

I Wish You Knew (2019)

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.

Policy responses

APPG for Financial Education Inquiry Response (2019)

Policy responses

Become Response to OfS Consultation (2018)

Become responded to the questions most relevant to our work with young care leavers and their journeys to, through and beyond higher education. Our responses are informed by recent research and draw on both what young people tell us about their experiences and what we hear from colleagues working in higher education institutions who have a responsibility for supporting care leavers.

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.

Policy responses

Response to 'Transforming Children and Young People's Mental Health Provision (2018)

The Department of Health and Department for Education jointly published a green paper looking at children and young people’s mental health. Become responded to the questions most relevant to children in care and care leavers, drawing on what young people tell us about their experiences and what the latest research says.

Policy responses

Consultation response to 'Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision’ (2018)

Consultation response to 'Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision’

Policy responses

Consultation response to the Fostering Stocktake (2017)

Our submission is based on evidence from our research and our work supporting children in care and young care leavers, as well as evidence from meetings of the APPG for Looked After Children and Care Leavers, for which we are the secretariat.

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.

Policy responses

Future of Social Care Inspection questionnaire response (2016)

Publications, Reports, Research

Principles of Care (2015)

Principles of Care, published in spring 2015, sets out our vision for the care system.

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.

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.

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)

The Care Inquiry (2013)

The Care Inquiry is a collaboration of specialist charities representing all care options for these children

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.

Promotional materials

Life Coaching at Become Information Sheet

This free information sheet provides information about life coaching at Become for children in care and young care leavers.

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.

This free flyer provides information about Become's services for children in care and young care leavers.

This free flyer provides information about Propel, Become's online education resource for young care leavers.

This free poster provides information about Propel, Become's online education resource for young care leavers.

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.

Policy and lobbying

Delivering a meaningful review of the care system

Become, as part of a collective of 27 charities and groups who work with and represent care-experienced children and young people across England, submitted on 26 February 2020 an open letter to the Secretary of State, Gavin Williamson MP, urging the government to move forward with a commitment to carry out a ‘bold and broad’ independent review of the care system stating it is ‘urgently needed’.

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