The charity's second State of the Nation's Foster Care report, based on a survey of more than 2,500 UK foster carers, found that the proportion of foster carers who would definitely recommend fostering to others had fallen from 66 per cent in 2014 to 55 per cent in 2016.
Meanwhile, a third of foster carers felt that children's social workers did not treat them as an equal member of the team.
And only 42 per cent of foster carers felt their allowance covered the full cost of looking after fostered children - compared with 80 per cent in 2014
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