Blogs/Web Pages/Articles What is it really like being a Care Experienced Person? Charlotte Armitage 2018 Charlotte discusses responses to Care Experienced People, representations of them, and her hope that future writers and producers will take care in their representations. External Website

Authors C Care Experience Conference ➝ Care Experienced History Month ➝ Care Leavers National Movement ➝ A Portrait Of Care (@aportraitofcare) • Instagram photos and videos ➝ Taking control of the narrative with my debut novel Careless ➝ How 10 Orphans From eSwatini Helped Write A Prize-Winning Movie ➝ "Invasion is a Structure Not an Event" ➝ Coram in literature ➝ Her name was Jean: International Women's Day 2021 ➝ Interview with Jilly Cooper ➝ Commission of Inquiry into the Tasmanian Government's Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Institutional Settings. ➝ Create Foundation ➝ Nobody's Child by GJ Urquhart – Book Review. Leeds care home memoir. ➝ Crazy Diamonds ➝ I’ve Been In A Bad Mood ➝ Billy Connolly: ‘I’ve been scared my whole life’ ➝ Vivaldi taught Venetian orphan girls – did they help write his music in return? ➝ Charlie Chaplin and the story of care ➝ Orphan's role in movie upsets adoption groups ➝ Cascades Female Factory ➝ Child Migrant Trust ➝ CELCIS Reach - article on the creative workshops run by Inspired Youth ➝ The PhD question… ➝ Orphans & Care Experience in Literature ➝ Movies ➝ Peregrina Sails ➝ Who was Thomas Coram? ➝ Henry Fielding, Tom Jones and care ➝ Mercy's story (Coram) ➝ Northern Territory Stolen Generations survivor William Tilmouth wins top honour at 2025 Human Rights Awards ➝ Back to Top

Authors L Hand Me Down ➝ Down and Out: Surviving the Homelessness Crisis ➝ Lost in the System ➝ Family Secrets: A Writer's Search for His Parents and His Past ➝ A Chip Off What Block? ➝ We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story ➝ Back to Top

Authors L Emilia Lanier ➝ Shelton Lea ➝ Mikhail Lermontov ➝ Back to Top

Autobiography/Memoir Fear of the Collar Patrick Touher 2008 Sent to an industrial school in Dublin at the age of seven, Patrick Touher was forced into a tough regime of education and training, prayer and punishment, strict discipline, and fearful nights. Artane Industrial School demanded absolute obedience and absolute submission; Patrick's eight-year stint there was an education in cruelty and fear. Run by the Christian Brothers, the school has become synonymous with the widespread abuse of children in Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s. External Website

Authors D Parragirls: Reimagining Parramatta Girls Home through art and memory ➝ Contesting Childhood: Autobiography, Trauma, and Memory ➝ The Story of the Pink Cat: An Exploration of the Ways Care-Experienced People Navigate Inheritance by Delyth Edwards & Rosie Canning ➝ Back to Top

Authors I Israel: The Yemenite Children Affair ➝ Into The Fire: The Lost Daughter ➝ Intimate Relations ➝ Identity Thief ➝ Instant Family ➝ Northern NSW Football Indigenous Round 28-30 May 2021 ➝ Back to Top

Authors A Allan Ahlbery ➝ Back to Top

Authors B Blue Miracle ➝ Baby Driver ➝ Bessie ➝ Black and in Care Video 1984 ➝ Belle ➝ Boy ➝ Brian Banks ➝ Black or White ➝ Batman ➝ Blonde ➝ Boys Town (Film) ➝ Back to Top

Authors K Bessie Smith: A Poet's Biography of a Blues Legend ➝ Back to Top

Authors M One Hundred Years of Solitude (Novel) ➝ Anne of Green Gables ➝ A Ticket to Ride ➝ Emily of New Moon ➝ When the Stars Go Dark ➝ Back to Top

Films/Videos The Forgotten Maggies 2009 The Forgotten Maggies (2009) is a documentary mad by Irish film maker Steven O’Riordan. The film explores, via interviews with women who had lived experience, the Magdalene Laundries of the 20th century. It focuses on the human rights problems of the State and the Roman Catholic church conspiring to keep these women incarcerated in the Magdalene Laundries. External Website

Radio & Podcast Alone with J.S. Bach The History Listen 2021 German composer, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was in kinship care for 5 years after being orphaned at age 10. He and his older brother, Jacob, were sent to live with their older brother who had recently married. In this podcast, 6 violinists talk about their experience with Bach's music. External Website

Authors A Ten Things Every Foster Child Wishes You Knew: A Guide to Fostering Hope ➝ Stella's Story ➝ Abby's Story ➝ We Were Once a Family ➝ Eden's Story ➝ Back to Top

Authors O Mark Opitz ➝ Back to Top

Authors H Charles Dickens and the House of Fallen Women ➝ Dickens The Orphan Condition ➝ Collective Revenge: Challenging the Individualist Victim-Avenger in Death Proof, Sleepers, and Mystic River ➝ Children's Homes. A History of Institutional Care for Britain's Young ➝ Back to Top

Television Shows The Good Witch's Charm 2021 The Good Witch's Charm is a Hallmark Channel film that aired on October 27, 2012. The film stars Catherine Bell as Cassandra "Cassie" Nightingale whose parents died when she was a child and who grows up in the US foster care system. Cassie became accustomed to travelling and moving as she was passed through foster homes. She ran away and continued travelling the world and learning about many different cultures, all the while honing her special gifts. Cassie is psychic and uses her intuition (and at times, a little magic) for good reasons. It also stars Chris Potter as police chief Jake Russell. This is the fifth installment in the series. Good Witch Cassie Nightingale is back to her bewitching ways, but this time she's also juggling a newborn daughter and her job as town Mayor. With such a busy schedule she and her husband, town sheriff Jake Russell, aren't getting much sleep. Hoping for a break, Cassie plans a much-needed vacation with her new family. But things go awry when a crime wave sweeps through town and an investigative reporter tries to ruin Cassie's image after a video of her magically disappearing turns up on the internet. Supported by her loyal family and friends, Cassie must rely on her signature charm to put a stop to the troubles before they completely destroy the town and a Good Witch's reputation! External Website

Cartoons Sesame Street - Foster Care 2019 Fostering a child takes patience, resilience, and sacrifice. Sesame Street in Communities has created new resources to help children in crisis cope with separation from their birth parents, placement in #fostercare, and possible reunions. External Website

Fiction featuring Care Experience The Franchise Affair (novel) Josephine Tey 2022 The Franchise Affair (1948) by Josephine Tey (Elizabeth MacKintosh 1896-1952) is 1 of 3 novels republished by Penguin in 2022 to mark the occasion of 70 years since Tey died. Set in the village of Milford, Surrey, two upper class women, Marion Sharpe and her mother, are accused and, eventually, charged with kidnapping, imprisoning in their attic for a month, starving and beating 15-year-old, Betty Kane. Local solicitor, Robert Blair, is asked to represent the Sharpe women and quite early decides they couldn’t possibly have committed the crime. Betty Kane is a war orphan, an adoptee. External Website

Biography of Care Experienced People Charles Dickens: A Life Claire Tomalin 2012 A biography of one of the world's most famous and beloved writers, Charles Dickens, by award-winning biographer Claire Tomalin. External Website