CaringLife – Connecting the Lives of Children in Care

With CaringLife, children, carers, and social workers can securely upload photos, videos, documents, and journal entries that capture milestones, achievements, and everyday moments. Each memory can include captions and comments, creating meaningful conversations that help children feel seen and supported. Social workers and case managers can review and moderate all content, ensuring that every memory, journal entry, and comment is preserved safely and privately for life.

Who is it designed for?

CaringLife is designed for children and young people in out-of-home care - foster, kinship, residential care, youth justice and disability services; their carers and social workers.

What can be uploaded?

If it's something a young person would like to remember, it can be uploaded. It might be photos and video from their birthday party, funny photos they take at home, a holiday, school photos, a day at the park, etc. It can also be scans of sporting awards, certificates of participation, birthday cards, artwork, or school reports.

What happens if the child moves?

If the young person moves to a new care family or residential home, the new carers can be connected with the child so that they can continue to upload all the new memories to the child's account. The content will be able to be accessed forever - even when the young person leaves care or reaches adulthood.

Fully hosted and secure

CaringLife is built utilising the latest security protocols to ensure complete data privacy and protection for the children. All content is processed and stored in the child's country of residence on AWS cloud servers. The protocols for storage of content are aligned with international security and quality best practices standards, including: • SOC 1/SSAE 16/ISAE 3402 (formerly SAS 70) • SOC 2 • SOC 3 • FISMA, DIACAP, and FedRAMP • DOD CSM Levels 1-5 • PCI DSS Level 1 • ISO 9001 / 27001 • ITAR • FIPS 140-2 • MTCS Level 3.

How do I create an account?

CaringLife is licensed to Departments, Local Authorities and Agencies - if you would like to discuss creating an account, please contact us at hello@caringlife.com If you are a Carer and would like to have an account to upload content for the children in your care, please speak to your Agency about whether they have an account with CaringLife.

"The Australian Childhood Foundation is very pleased to support the CaringLife app. Its intent is to support carers and children in out-of-home care to be able to keep the records, mementoes and memories so often lost to children and young people in out of home care due to multiple moves. These are the things we take for granted in our own lives and the lives of our children. We all know how important and special these things are. They speak to who we are, our sense of identity and belonging."

Janise Mitchell

CEO, Australian Childhood Foundation

“Childhood memories are precious and powerful. CaringLife secures these for life, ensuring that children and young people can access what belongs to them whenever and however they choose to. The Fostering Network is proud to endorse this innovative and child-centred development.”

Sarah Thomas

CEO, The Fostering Network

"A fragmented, damaged, discontinuous personal narrative puts an individual child at risk. CaringLife provides a terrific way for children to be able to access their life moments in an easy and continuous way, and I support the use of CaringLife for children in out-of-home care.”