This year, the annual campaign to raise the profile of fostering and show how foster care transforms lives is using the hashtag #WhyWeCare. I like the way it’s highlighting foster carers’ reflections about why they have chosen to be caregivers in this way, and at the same time to prompt those of us who aren’t foster carers ourselves, but who truly value those who are, to think about why we care about fostering.
A quick look at the hashtag on social media tells a heart-warming story of individuals and families who have opened their hearts and homes to children at every age and stage of their lives. Some write about what they see as the privilege of looking after children for a short, but difficult, period of instability and insecurity until a permanent home is found for them, others about a stay that was originally planned to be short but became firstly a child’s home for the whole of their childhood, and then a place to regularly return to in adulthood, often with children of their own.
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