A new recruitment campaign has been launched as research suggested some felt being single or disabled were automatic barriers to fostering.
Misconceptions including being single or too old are said to be putting people off fostering at a time of dire need for more carers, as Olympian Fatima Whitbread and poet Lemn Sissay front a new recruitment campaign.
The NFG described the care system as being “at a critical point” and said information it had received from 128 local authority fostering agencies in England, Scotland and Wales suggested almost two thirds of those had seen a rise in young people going into care in the last 12 months and an estimated 10,500 foster carers are now “urgently needed across the country”.
Other reasons included already having their own children , being single , working and being disabled , it added. “We will consider people regardless of age, marital status, gender, sexuality, disability or employment status.
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