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• Foster Care Fortnight 2008: UK needs thousands more foster carers this year alone
  More than 5,000 new foster carers must be recruited across the UK during the next year alone in order to provide more children in care with the homes they need, the Fostering Network warned today (12 May).

• Foster Care Fortnight 2008: new campaign asks 'do you have the qualities to foster?'
  A UK-wide recruitment campaign to encourage more people to consider whether they have the qualities needed to foster is being launched by the Fostering Network on Monday 12 May, to coincide with the start of Foster Care Fortnight (12–25 May).

• Would you like to cook with Gordon Ramsey?
  TV production company Optomen is looking for foster carers to take part in the new series of Gordon Ramsay’s F Word . They would like to hear as soon as possible from foster carers who are interested in learning about delicious and healthy food.

• Campaign success for the Fostering Network
  The Fostering Network is celebrating campaign success after the Government amended the Children and Young Persons Bill so as to place a duty on local authorities in England and Wales to provide sufficient and diverse foster placements within their local area.

• Join us in lobbying Parliament for the second reading of the Children and Young Persons Bill
  

  Government delays in the House of Lords mean that our lobby of Parliament for the second reading of the Children and Young Persons Bill is now not likely to take place until late April or early May...