Love Rally Glasgow: Hundreds march for respect and love for care-experienced people

The Love Rally, running since 2018, is an annual event, organised to demand more love and respect for people who used to be or are currently in the care system.

This includes people in foster care, secure care, children’s homes, and adopted or looked after at home with social work supervision.

It was organised by Who Cares? Scotland, a charity formed after many of its members shared that they didn’t feel loved while growing up in care.

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Louise Hunter, chief executive of the organisation, said: "I am absolutely delighted to see so many people here. We are marching for a lifetime of equality, love and respect for care-experienced people across Scotland.

"It is so often that they don't have the same access to everything that their non-care-experienced peers do.

"We are here to celebrate love, which is what everybody needs in Scotland and what everybody is entitled to."

Ryan McCuaig, chair of Who Cares? Scotland board, said: "We know that often and through no fault of their own, those who are taken into the care system as children, can struggle to form those life-long, unconditional relationships, which we all take for granted.

"They help us thrive and go through difficult times in life, so we are calling for more love in the care system."

Who Cares? Scotland is a national membership and advocacy organisation, that supports people who are or have been in the care system and their allies.