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Autobiography/Memoir Black by Design: A 2-Tone Memoir Pauline Black 2012 Born in 1953 to Anglo-Jewish and Nigerian parents, Pauline Black was adopted by a white working-class family in Romford. Feeling out of place, she sought an escape from her small-town upbringing and found her true calling in music. As the lead singer of the platinum-selling band The Selecter, Pauline Black became the Queen of British Ska. The only woman in a male-dominated movement, she toured alongside The Specials, Madness, and Dexy’s Midnight Runners at the height of their fame—often witnessing their wildest moments firsthand. From childhood to stardom, from music to acting and broadcasting, and from adoption to the search for her birth parents, Black by Design is a compelling and insightful journey through identity, race, family, and the power of music. External Website

Television Shows The Last of Us 2023 The Last of Us (2023) is an American post-apocalyptic drama series based on the eponymous video game franchise. Set decades after the collapse of society, the 1st season follows Joel (Pedro) as he smuggles a 14 year old teenager, Ellie (Bella Ramsay), across the United States. Ellie is immune to the fungal infection which has devasted society. Therefore, she might be the key to creating a much needed vaccine. 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

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

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

Children's Fiction Anne of Green Gables (adapted) Lucy Maud Montgomery 2013 First published in 1908, “Anne of Green Gables” is Lucy Maud Montgomery’s enduring children’s classic which chronicles the coming of age of a young orphan girl, from the fictional community of Bolingbroke, Nova Scotia. The story begins with her arrival at the Prince Edward Island farm of Miss Marilla Cuthbert and Mr. Matthew Cuthbert, siblings in their fifties and sixties, who had decided to adopt a young boy to help out on the farm. However, through a misunderstanding, the orphanage sends Anne Shirley instead. While the Cuthbert’s are at first determined to return Anne to the orphanage, after a few days they decide instead to keep her. Set in the close knit farm community of Avonlea, based on the author’s real life home on Prince Edward Island, “Anne of Green Gables” is at once both a comic and tragic tale. Read by millions, this novel begins a series of books that the author continued writing until the day she died. 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

Blogs/Web Pages/Articles Orphans in Fiction - The British Library John Mullan 2014 Why do orphans appear so frequently in 19th-century fiction? Professor John Mullan reflects on the opportunities they provide for authors, considering some of the most famous examples of the period 1832-1880. External Website

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

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

Blogs/Web Pages/Articles I wanted to write about a care system that didn’t care very much': Kit de Waal on My Name Is Leon Kit de Waal 2020 The novelist did not set out to write a political book, but a lived experience. She ended up writing about a system that did not seem to care very much. External Website

Blogs/Web Pages/Articles FosterWiki Sarah Anderson 2021 FosterWiki, founded in 2021 by foster carer and NHS psychotherapist Sarah Anderson, is a free, independent community platform sharing foster carers’ knowledge to support, inform, and inspire, addressing the challenge of accessing reliable fostering information quickly. External Website

Authors A Allan Ahlbery ➝ Back to Top

Films/Videos Salt 2010 Salt (2010), directed by Phillip Noyce and starring Angelina Jolie, is a fast-paced espionage thriller about identity, loyalty, and state manipulation. Jolie plays Evelyn Salt, a skilled CIA officer accused of being a Russian sleeper agent. Salt was orphaned as a child and raised in Russia, where she was trained from a young age to become a deep-cover operative embedded in the U.S. A care-experienced protagonist whose early vulnerability is weaponised by the state External Website

Radio & Podcast A free lunch Life Changing with Jane Garvey 2022 This is a conversation with Sinead Browne who grew up in the UK care system. She ended up with an eating disorder and a law degree, went travelling at the age of 27 and was inspired by The Free Store https://www.thefreestore.org.nz/ in New Zealand to set up Compliments of the House back in the UK, in Brixton. Compliments of the House provides food and community for those who need it, and can be found here: https://www.complimentsofthehouse.org/ and Sinead's website is here: https://www.sineadbrowne.com/ 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

Television Shows Trying 2020 Trying (2020-2024) is a British comedy series following a couple, Nikki (Esther Smith) & Jason (Rafe Spall), who decide to adopt a child. Nikki & Jason are seen trying to impress adoption agency workers, members of an adoption support group, an adoption panel, etc. In Season 3 of Trying, Nikki & Jason formally adopt Princess and her younger brother Tyler. In Season 4, the series skips ahead 6 years. Now 16, Princess (Scarlett Rayner) wants to know about her birth family and why she and her brother Tyler (now 12, played by Cooper Turner) were given up for adoption. External Website

Films/Videos The Kid (1921) 2021 The Kid is a 1921 American silent comedy-drama film written, produced, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin, and features Jackie Coogan as his foundling baby, adopted son and sidekick. This was Chaplin's first full-length film as a director (he had been a co-star in 1914's Tillie's Punctured Romance). It was a huge success, and was the second-highest-grossing film in 1921, behind The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. In 2011, The Kid was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." External Website

Films/Videos Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom 2013 This film of Nelson Mandela's life is based on his 1995 autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom. External Website