Britain's forgotten children

Every year, thousands of kids disappear into the care system

Failure to Care? Watch video highlights from the debate

Related Links

• Adoption UK - national charity run by and for adoptive parents and foster carers, offering support before, during and after adoption
• A National Voice - organisation run by and for care experienced young people that aims to create positive changes to the care system in England
• Barnardo's: Fostering and Adoption - Visit this dedicated website to find a wealth of information about adopting with Barnardo's or becoming a foster carer
• Be My Parent - an adoption and fostering service for children in the UK, provided by BAAF, with a family-finding website and monthly newspaper
• British Association of Adoption and Fostering - BAAF is the leading UK charity working for children separated from their birth families
• Consortium of Voluntary Adoption Agencies - a collection of agencies, based in the UK, that help place children in need of adoption with their most suited adopters
• Coram - one of the leading adoption agencies in the UK providing loving and secure families for children in care who cannot live with their birth parents
• Could you Foster? - comprehensive information on fostering, provided by The Fostering Network
• NSPCC - leading organisation working to prevent cruelty to children
• The Fostering Network - the UK's leading charity for everyone with a personal or professional involvement in fostering
• The Who Cares? Trust - leading UK charity that works solely on behalf of children in care

Failure to Care? - a public debate

• Watch video highlights from the debate here (launches pop-up)
• Is Britain's care system in crisis or do we simply not care enough about these 'forgotten' children? Is it time to rethink long-held attitudes and reassess how we manage residential care, fostering and adoption or - in reacting to extremes - are we in danger of throwing out a stem that works for the majority of children?
• As part of the Britain's Forgotten Children season, Channel 4 hosted Failure to Care? a major public debate chaired by Rageh Omaar. Joining Rageh were panellists Baroness Morgan, shadow minister for children Tim Loughton MP, adoption campaigner David Akinsanya, Mo O'Reilly, director of child placement at BAAF, Martin Narey, chief executive of Barnardo's and Robert Tapsfield, chief executive of the Fostering Network.