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'Our win shows foster children and carers matter'

2 mins read Social Care
Laura Gawthorpe, marketing, recruitment and retention officer at Hull Fostering, explains what winning the Public Sector Children's Team category at the CYP Now Awards 2024 meant.
Young people and foster carers were 'thrilled' to hear about the award win, explain Laura Gawthorpe from Hull Fostering

Hull Fostering is a dedicated team of more than 50 staff who support nearly 300 foster carers and almost 800 young people in the city of Hull.

Our mission is to provide a nurturing and stable environment for children and young people in care, ensuring they have the best possible start in life.

We work tirelessly to recruit new foster carers and retain our existing ones, especially in the face of a national shortage of foster carers. In the past year alone, we approved 20 new mainstream foster carers, doubling the number from the previous year.

We decided to enter the Children & Young People Now Awards because we wanted to highlight the incredible work our team does every day. We believe our innovative approaches to recruitment and retention, as well as our unwavering commitment to the children and young people we serve, make our work stand out.

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