On Monday 12 May guests got together in the spectacular venue of Millbank Tower overlooking central London to launch the new promotional campaign fostering: recognise the qualities you’ve got as part of Foster Care Fortnight 2008. The campaign was launched by children’s minister Kevin Brennan MP confirming that “it was essential that foster carers received the right support and development”. He told the London launch event that “we must recognise the crucial work done by foster carers and that more people should be encouraged to take it on”.
Children's Workforce Development Council chief executive Jane Haywood added: “We have to build young people in care up from a very dark place. The people who do it must be very special. It is important that we recruit a wide range of foster carers with excellent personal skills and we give them the training and support they need to do the job.”
Jim Bond, chair of the Fostering Network, said “Foster carers needed to be good listeners, have a sense of humour and possess X-Ray vision. Let us hope that by the end of the year we have achieved our recruitment targets and that more young people can get the quality of care they so richly deserve.”
