Welcome to The Who Cares? Trust
We are a national charity working to improve public care for around 60,000 children and young people who are separated from their families and living in residential or foster care.
We promote the interests of children and young people in public care and we work with all those interested in their well-being in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and around the world.
Principles underpinning the work of The Who Cares? Trust
- All aspects of our work are informed by those with experience of the public care system.
- The Trust respects the rights and needs of children who are looked after by the state and will challenge negative attitudes towards them.
- The Trust believes that an individual’s uniqueness and personal identity should be respected and nurtured.
- All the Trust’s activities respects and take account of differences in race, culture, nationality, religion, language, gender, sexual orientation and age.
- The Trust recognises the particular rights and needs of disabled children and adults and will ensure that these are integral to our activities.
- The Trust respects the privacy of every child with whom it comes in contact and will seek a child’s permission before undertaking action on his/her behalf. In exceptional circumstances where a child is deemed to be in personal danger or to be a danger to another person, confidentiality may need to be broken. The child will be informed of our intended action, or in exceptional circumstances the action may already have been taken before the child can be informed.
- The Trust works in partnership with local authorities and other relevant organisations within the context of our stated principles.
Please visit our links on the left to view our work.
Site last updated: Apr 22nd 2008
Our website is currently under re-development