Foster Care Fortnight is an annual campaign to raise the profile of fostering. It is the UK's biggest foster carer recruitment campaign and this year it takes place from Monday to Sunday, May 26.
Becoming a foster carer is one of the most emotionally rewarding things you can do; helping a vulnerable child or young person by nurturing them and building their self-esteem.
Being there for them to help them to try and make sense of their situation is an enormous reward in itself.
Fostering provides a safe, secure and nurturing family environment, either short or long-term, and allows children to keep in contact with their own families if they wish.
On any one day there are more than 62,000 children living with foster families across the UK.
However, according to The Fostering Network a further 9,000 foster carers are needed this year alone to provide the supportive, stable and caring home for these vulnerable children.
It's no secret that fostering is far from easy; you need to have the energy, patience and dedication to care but you are rewarded with the opportunity to make a huge difference to a child's life.
There are many different types of foster care. Some children will only need a foster home for a few days, until they return to their birth family or move on elsewhere, while others will need a family to care for them for many years.
Helping children keep contact with their birth families is often an important part of a foster carer's role.
When a child is placed with you, you will form part of the team around the child, working with social workers and other professionals to make sure the child gets the care they need.
You may also have contact with the birth parents and families of the fostered child to support their on-going relationship and help them return home where possible.
To bring this year's Foster Care Fortnight campaign to life, The Fostering Network will be placing foster families, celebrities and politicians throughout the UK in their own picture frame, and sharing the photos through media, social networks and online to raise awareness of the urgent need for more people to foster.
They will also be encouraging fostering services to put their foster families in their own picture frame to acknowledge the outstanding contribution they make and to demonstrate the skills and qualities needed by potential new carers.
If you're new to fostering, and want to find out more of what fostering is and what foster carers do, visit www.fostering.net.
