A Foster Carer led campaign has secured group 2 priority access for COVID 19 vaccination for foster carers around the UK

January 18, 2021

Early in the New Year FosterSupport began campaigning for foster carers to be included in Group 2 Health and Social Care workers in the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation: advice on priority groups for COVID-19 vaccination list. FosterSupport prepared a draft email for members around the UK to forward to their local councillors and MPs. Thousands of emails were sent and we received an overwhelmingly favourable response to our compelling arguments;

Bernard Jenkin MP has raised it on behalf of the FosterSupport member who sent our draft email to him and he states “the point about the vulnerability of foster carers seems a powerful point” and he suggested that we should be included under “frontline health and social care workers” (group 2)

Michael Fabricant MP has also raised it on our behalf.

David Duguid MP has raised it stating “you raise some interesting points about the work that foster carers do”.

Local Authorities began to respond favourably in ever increasing numbers and to date we have been advised by our members in the following areas that they have already been invited for vaccination or have received confirmation that this is being arranged.

Durham, Cambridge, Salford, Tameside, Leeds, West Sussex,West Suffolk, Portsmouth, Bromley, Oldham, Dorset, South Gloucestershire,Cornwall, Lancashire County Council, Fareham, Bradford, Denbighshire, Suffolk,Barnsley, Solihull, The whole of Northern Ireland, North Tyneside, Calderdale, Leicester, NW Leicestershire, National fostering group,   Neath port Talbot, Barnardos, RCT (SouthWales, Hertfordshire, Essex, Swansea, Vale of Glamorgan, Wrexham, Middlesborough, BANES, Hereford, Essex,Neath Port Talbot, RCT South Wales, Northumberland

This is a phenomenal achievement by foster carers who have come together around the UK as one collective voice and quickly and effectively had their voices heard.

We now call upon all outstanding local authorities to move their foster carers into Group 2.

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You may have seen John Lewis Partnership announce their intention to become a  fostering friendly employer.
FosterSupport is one of the organisations who have been working with them over the past year. After many months of collaboration this August we facilitated a series of bespoke training courses to JLP managers to give them an insight into the trauma informed training foster carers use when supporting young people to enable them to better understand how to support their care experienced employees. This collaboration will continue next year as they continue to expand their employment scheme. We have also had meetings to provide advice and information to support their bespoke fostering friendly employer scheme. With our support they plan to make this the gold standard policy for fostering friendly organisations. HERE is the video we made for them to promote the internal training sessions. The feedback we received from them about the training was brilliant.

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