Care Day 2020 encourages the community to get involved

An annual celebration of the Care Experienced community is set to take place across Scotland this Friday 21 February.

Between 11am and 1pm The Hub for Success on 249 High Street in Edinburgh will host a drop-in morning to network and celebrate care experienced individuals, as well as providing hot drinks and food.

Care Day aims to shift public attitudes on care experienced people’s lives; bring together the care experienced community with their allies and corporate parents to talk about how together they can ensure care experienced people get the love, rights and relationships they deserve; and to motivate the community, their allies and corporate parents to share their celebrations, show their commitments and ignite discussion.

This year’s event will be themed around ‘Reimagining’ and will encourage the community and their supporters to reimagine how Scotland and the world can best support care experienced people to flourish.

The campaign, organised by Who Cares? Scotland is urging supporters to get involved with the day however they can.

They suggest organising an event or activity within your organisation or local authority area, lighting up your building in red on Care Day 2020 to show some love for the Care Experienced community, capturing your commitments to how you can reimagine your work to best serve Care Experienced people and share them publicly on social media using the hashtags #CareDay20 and #Reimagining to raise awareness or by joining up with local and national activities.

Who Cares? Scotland are a national voluntary organisation, working with care experienced young people and care leavers across Scotland which provides a professional, independent advocacy service to care experienced people and offer a wide range of groups, activities and events for care experienced people across Scotland.