Petition Support the setup of educational foster care homes - like free schools.

I am a Primary School Teacher and a Foster (Kinship) Carer. For many years I have seen and taught children who are in care - Looked After Child (LAC). These children need us!
An educational foster home could offer stability, consistency, care and love and deliver fantastic outcomes for children.

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Nearly 64,000 children live with almost 55,000 foster families across the UK each day. This is nearly 80% of the 81,000 children in care away from home on any one day in the UK.

The Government's DfE paper states: “Where birth parents cannot meet a child’s basic needs it is one of the state’s most important responsibilities to step in and ensure that children can have a childhood which keeps them safe and enables them to flourish."

With a UK shortage of foster carers this petition can help!

This petition closed early because of a General Election Find out more on the Petitions Committee website

29 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 29 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

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Date closed 3 May 2017
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