The Project is based on a project conducted in Britain, where children in care were invited by the National Children's Bureau in London to attend a one day conference in 1975 to talk about matters of special concern to them. A group of children who attended the conference eventually published a book called “Who Cares? Young People in Care Speak Out” which reported on residential care as the children saw it. This book is locally available, and prompted the idea that a similar project might be carried out in New South Wales during the International Year of the Child. Information was sought and readily obtained from the National Children's Bureau in London about the “Who Cares” project.