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A Care Day initiative launched by a coalition of children’s rights charities in 2016 is celebrating its fifth year with a "Reimagining" theme.
Care Day is aimed to bring together children and young people who experienced different care settings, including foster care, children’s homes and kinship care.
The charities behind the Care Day initiative — Become, Empowering People in Care, Voice of Young People in Care, Voices from Care and Who Cares? (based in the UK) — are calling on the United Nations to recognise it as an official day. An internationally recognised Care Day is believed to be a unique opportunity to highlight 'the reality of what it is like growing up in care' to larger communities.
The 'Reimagining' theme of Care Day 2020 intends to raise attention to the need of a promised care review. There is a consensus among the charities that the existing care system in England is lacking in terms of providing equal access to the system, as well as not involving young persons in decision-making policies. Nevertheless, the government affirms that a full review of the children’s social care system is among the near-future plans promised during the party’s election campaign.
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