Gloucestershire County Council is appealing for people from the Black and Minority Ethnic community to consider fostering and adoption.
Foster carers and adopters are particularly needed for older children, teenagers and siblings. Since the last BME recruitment week this time last year, we have successfully recruited five BME households as foster carers.
Cllr Paul McLain, Gloucestershire County Council Cabinet Member for Children and Young People, said: “We need more people from the Black and Minority Ethnic community to come forward to foster and adopt. We want to offer local BME children the chance to be cared for and brought up within their own cultural background and ethnic origin. He adds that It is always their ambition to find a family to reflect the child’s ethnicity. It’s what children and young people in care have said that they want.”
As such there will be information stands and meetings:-
Foster carer open information sessions for BME Week
Tuesday, March 1st: Chequers Bridge, Painswick Road, Glos, GL4 6PR, 7.30pm to 9pm
Saturday, March 5th: The Friendship Café, 109-113 Barton Street, Gloucester, GL1 4HR, 11am to 12.30pm
Information stands
Thursday, March 3rd: ASDA, Gloucester (10am to 4pm)
Friday, March 4th: Sainsbury’s Cheltenham, Prior’s Road (10am to 4pm)
Saturday, March 5th: Farmer’s Market, Stroud (8am to 2pm)
see full press release—Call for carers from Black and Minority Ethnic communities
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