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Are you in care or a care leaver, or supporting someone who is? Looking for help and advice? Contact our friendly advice line. Freephone 0800 023 2033 or email advice@becomecharity.org.uk

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CARE 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.

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Latest news and opinion

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Become comments on LGA report on profit-making and risk in children’s social care
27 Feb 2020
Katharine Sacks-Jones, chief executive of Become, the charity for children in care and young care leavers, comments on the LGA warning around private children’s social care company debts.
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Become calls on Secretary of State to deliver meaningful review
26 Feb 2020
Become, as part of a collective of 27 charities and groups, have today submitted an open letter urging the government to move forward with a commitment to carry out a ‘bold and broad’ independent review of the care system.
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Become responds to the care review in Scotland
05 Feb 2020
Katharine Sacks-Jones, chief executive of Become, responds to the care review launched today in Scotland.
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Become comments on children and young people being placed in illegal accommodation
20 Jan 2020
Katharine Sacks-Jones, Chief Executive of Become, comments on children and young people in care being placed in illegal accommodation.
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Become calls on the next Government to improve the lives of children in care
06 Nov 2019
A System That Cares is a manifesto setting out what we and the young people we work with think is needed to make things better for care-experienced children and young people.
Opinion
National Care Leavers' Week
29 Oct 2019
Katharine Sacks-Jones, our CEO on the importance of supporting young people as they leave care.
Opinion
Our response to the Department for Education's care leavers announcement
23 Oct 2019
Our response to the Department for Education's National Care Leavers' Week announcement.
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