Emotive film highlights the need to foster brothers & sisters

Local councils have come together to produce an emotive film to encourage more people to come forward and foster brothers and sisters.

fostering film

To mark Foster Care Fortnight (May 8 – 21), Leicestershire County Council has teamed up with 12 other local authorities across the East and West Midlands, including Leicester City Council, to launch the short film.

The three-minute film ‘Giants’ tells the story of Jack and Ellie, siblings who want to stay together when they find themselves in foster care.

The county council currently has around 500 children in its care, including sibling groups, and works to keep brothers and sisters together wherever possible.

 

“This film demonstrates the real and urgent need local authorities have to recruit foster carers, including those who have the extra space to keep siblings together.

“Working together has meant we have a powerful and high quality product, at a low cost, to showcase and raise awareness for the need for more local authority foster carers.

“Foster Care Fortnight is all about raising awareness of how fostering can transform lives, so we hope people will take time to have a look at our film over the next two weeks and find out more about fostering with us.”

 
 

“This is a great example of how local authorities across the Midlands can work together. We all share the same need to find more foster families who can change the lives of our most vulnerable children.

" 'Giants’ is an extremely moving video that shows just how important it is to keep brothers and sisters together in foster care. We would urge anyone who is interested in becoming a foster carer to contact their local authority to find out more.”

 

The theme of ‘giants’ was devised to blend the concept of people who help us in society (such as foster carers), and also to highlight the strong bond and relationships that siblings have as they look up to and care for each other, becoming each other’s ‘giant’ in life.

The project was led by Coventry City Council which had won the Film Convert Corporate Film award in 2015 for Alfie’s Journey, another fostering film also made by production company Reel Twenty Five.

More information about fostering with Leicestershire County Council is here - alternatively call 0116 305 0505. An information open evening will be held from 6.15-8pm on Thursday (May 11) at County Hall in Glenfield for anyone who wants to find out more about fostering

More on fostering with Leicester City Council is here - or call 0116 454 4500. Full details of the city council’s regular information evenings are on the website. You can find out more at Leicester Central Library on Bishop Street on Wednesday, May 17 between 11am and 1pm. The next evening event is on June 13.

Notes:

The 13 local authorities that took part in the collaboration were: Leicestershire, Leicester, Derby, Coventry, Birmingham, Solihull, Telford and Wrekin, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Sandwell, Worcestershire, Stoke, and Staffordshire.

‘Giants’ was officially launched on Wednesday (May 3), at a premiere screening at The Everyman Cinema in Birmingham.

Foster Care Fortnight is the UK’s biggest foster care awareness raising campaign, delivered by leading fostering charity, The Fostering Network.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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