Description: Narrated Thames TV segment about the need for more fostering of black children by black carers.

We are introduced to a ten-year-old black girl and her black foster mother. Combined with interviews of both child and carer, we see footage of them shopping together in a street market.

The foster mother describes realising that she would not be able to have biological children, her decision to foster, and the process of bonding with her foster daughter.

We see the foster daughter playing Michael Jackson's Thriller on a record player in her bedroom and playing cards. Interviewed, the girl describes her life pre being fostered, living in the Barnardo's home. She describes the home as being 'not very nice' and explains that she was lonely. She tells the interviewer that she likes her foster mum because she is 'nice and soft-hearted'.

A woman Barnardo's social worker is interviewed and talks about the importance of black children 'knowing who they are' and suggests that for this reason it is better for them to be placed with black families.

Speaking to this idea of black children being connected to a sense of cultural heritage, we cut back to the foster mother and daughter sitting together in their living room, looking through family photographs. The mother describes taking her foster daughter to Barbados to meet her family and how important and worthwhile this was. The mother speaks about how her daughter's confidence has improved since being placed with her.

The social worker speaks about possible misconceptions among potential black fosterers, that fostering is only for middle-class families with a lot of money.

The foster mother speaks about how she hopes to continue fostering her daughter forever.

The segment ends with the narrator/presenter, back in the studio, encouraging people interested to get in touch to find out more about fostering.

After the segment, the off-air recording also includes several 1980s TV commercials.