Ms Smith (not her real name) was a foster carer working for Peterborough Council but living in Lincolnshire.
In 2007 a child she had fostered made an allegation about her younger daughter. The same child made a second allegation later in the year about her older daughter, which prompted a further investigation by Lincolnshire Council.
This investigation was discontinued in May 2008, a year after the first allegation had been made, but the outcome was not made clear to Ms Smith, or to Peterborough Council, which had suspended her as a foster carer in the meantime.
When Ms Smith complained to Lincolnshire Council, in December 2008, she was told that Peterborough should have provided her with support.
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