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The Home for Good initiative was launched in early 2013 as a campaign run in partnership between Care for the Family, Thirtyone:eight and Evangelical Alliance, with the aim of making fostering and adoption a significant part of the life and ministry of the Church in the UK.
Become aims to make a difference to individual lives right now, and the care system as a whole for future generations. Become has been working to improve the everyday lives and future life chances of children in care and young care leavers since 1992.
PFAN is a network dedicated to social justice for parents and families affected by the child protection system in the UK. It was started by a small group of people who are concerned at the growing oppression of children and families carried out, often with the best of intentions, in the name of child protection. PFAN seeks an end to child protection as we know it and for a fundamental change from child protection and rescue to child rights that strengthens family and community.
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Voices From Care Cymu exists to improve the lives of care experienced children and young people in Wales. They achieve this by being an independent voice for care experienced children and young people.
Article 39 fights for the rights of children living in state and privately-run institutions (children’s homes, boarding and residential schools, mental health inpatient units, prisons and immigration detention). They take their name from Article 39 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which entitles children who have suffered rights violations to recover in environments where their health, self-respect and dignity are nurtured.
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The Children's Society was founded in 1881 by Edward Rudolf, a young Sunday school teacher and civil servant in South London. The organization started with small group homes for children for poor and homeless children. In 1969, the organization introduced a daycare program to support single-parent families to stay together. The organization began closing its small group homes and moved toward supporting young people in their families and communities.
The Howard League for Penal Reform is the oldest penal reform charity in the UK. The Howard League has undertaken a program of work to end the criminalisation of children living in residential care. As part of this program, the Howard League has published a series of briefing papers aimed at exploring the issue and offering recommendations and best practices for addressing the criminalization of children in care, particularly…
Aberlour, formerly an orphanage in Scotland, now offers foster and residential care for children in care as well as substance abuse recovery services for families, early intervention and family support services, as well as support services for families with children with disabilities.
The Fostering Network brings together everyone who is involved in the lives of fostered children in the UK. They support foster carers to transform children’s lives and work with fostering services and the wider sector to develop and share best practice.
The Care Leavers’ Foundation was founded in December 1999 by 3 people who each put five pounds in the centre of the table as a beginning to the emerging concept for a significant national fund to be set up for care leavers.It would act in place of "the bank of absent mum and dad". The simple idea, that this fund would make grants to care leavers, was based on one overarching principle; that if a reasonable parent would help out in the situation described, then so would we. Since then The Foundation has achieved national recognition and made grants to hundreds of care leavers.