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Foster Care Fortnight 2020

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The theme for this year's campaign was This Is Fostering to convey a varied and authentic picture of the contributions of the people involved in fostering and how foster care transforms the lives of children and young people across the country.

We want wider society to understand and value fostering and the positive difference it can make to young people’s lives and we hope this increased awareness will build support for fostering, challenge stigma surrounding children in foster care and encourage more people to consider fostering.

A review of 2019

Annual initiatives

Foster Care FortnightTM

Foster Care FortnightTM is our annual campaign to raise the profile of fostering and show how foster care transforms lives. The theme of this year's Foster Care Fortnight was how foster care changes futures and this year was our biggest yet!

Winter 2019 - Winter 2019

Fostering misrepresented by negative media coverage

We have been disappointed with the negative portrayal of care and the experience of looked after children in some media over the last few days, surrounding the new documentary series by Lemn Sissay.

Campaigns blog - Next steps for Keep Connected

The relationship between fostered children and their former foster carers is increasingly being recognised as extremely important to the development and wellbeing of the child.

Campaigns blog - July 2018

Meet our new campaigns and engagement officer, find out more about the 30 hours free childcare for fostered children in England, read how we're responding to Fostering Better Outcomes, discover what's happening at the care review in Scotland and see how you can get involved in our 2018 State of t

Campaigns update February 2018

Time flies! It’s been a busy start to the year for the campaigns and policy team, and hard to believe we’re at the end of February already.

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