Empowering diversity. Enriching lives. Strengthening care. Where lived experience meets system change. We build the cultural intelligence, training and community that make fostering safer, stronger and more affirming for Black and Global Majority children across the UK.
We exist to transform how the care system protects and supports Black and Global Majority children, so every child grows up safe, valued and proud of who they are. Through cultural intelligence, quality assurance and partnership, we work with foster carers, fostering services, commissioners and communities to deliver identity-affirming placements, strengthen safeguarding, and embed equity, accountability and excellence at every level of the system.
Thinking about fostering, Special Guardianship or kinship care? Whether you’re just curious or ready to start, we offer trusted guidance, culturally grounded training and a community that understands the journey.
Local Authorities and Independent Fostering Agencies partner with us to close the transracial placement gap. We help you attract, support and retain foster carers — with CPD-accredited training, and evidence-informed practice support.
Around 82% of the foster carer workforce is white, while roughly 25% of children in care are from Black and Global Majority backgrounds. We help you close that gap with evidence-informed strategies built for real-world fostering services.
We support your assessment process to improve quality, consistency and approval outcomes.
We strengthen support systems so foster carers are more likely to stay and thrive.
We design the platforms, frameworks and tools that change what’s possible — from BFCA Connect to the next generation of culturally intelligent infrastructure
Read real experiences and professional insights from foster carers, social workers, young people and partner organisations.
We provide culturally grounded support and peer-led insight that helps all foster carers better support Black and Global Majority children.
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Social prescribing: every child knowing who they are
Social prescribing underpins everything we do. Just as a GP can prescribe a walking group alongside medicine, the professionals around a child in a foster home can prescribe community support rooted in their heritage: mentors, culture, faith and belonging. We train social workers, teachers and fostering services to become prescribers, and connect children and their carers to the right support.
The team around the child notices an unmet identity or belonging need and refers to a trained prescriber, or to BFCA.
We connect the child and carers to community support, and progress is reviewed at their LAC review.