An emotional new fostering awareness film, ‘The Run’, has been created to highlight the need for more foster carers in Plymouth.

Foster for Plymouth is one of more than 90 local authority fostering services who have joined together for this major nationwide campaign, which has been project managed by CAN Digital.

The film focuses on Tom, an 11-year-old boy, contrasting his need to run - away from danger, a chaotic home life, the fear of doing the wrong thing, to get to school in time for breakfast club because he’s hungry - with running as a sport.

Despite the disadvantages Tom faces before being fostered – not even having a PE kit for school – he’s good at running and the film climaxes with Tom taking part in an athletics tournament, running in a stadium, with the support of his new fo

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