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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Aine Fox

SHOCKING: Consider fostering urge sissay and whitbread as misconceptions put people off - You Need To See This

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.

Radio presenter Pandora Christie has also joined efforts to get more people to consider fostering, as the trio – who all had experience living in care as children – shared photographs of their younger selves in support of the campaign.

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