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Charities call on UN to back international day of care

2 mins read Social Care
Children’s social care leaders are calling on the United Nations to officially designate a day of celebration for looked-after children and care-experienced adults.
Campaigners have called for Care Day to be recognised by the United Nations. Picture: Become
Campaigners have called for Care Day to be recognised by the United Nations. Picture: Become

A letter from a coalition of children’s rights charities, which launched Care Day as a joint initiative in 2016, says it should be globally recognised to mark its fifth year of running.

The initiative, which takes place today, is billed as the world’s largest celebration of children and young people with experience of the care system.

This includes those with lived experience of foster care, children’s homes, kinship care as well as other care settings.

The group of charities – Become, Empowering People in Care, Voice of Young People in Care, Voices from Care and Who Cares? – cover children and young people in care and care leavers across England, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

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