What do you do when the girl you're fostering displays extreme behaviour?
A foster carer from the West Country tells how sometimes you just have to let go
- I have been a foster carer for more than 20 years, mostly looking after girls in their teens. I've become attached to many of the girls, but Stephanie was a bit special. She was bright, funny and had few visible scars of her past.
Stephanie settled in well at the local high school and had soon made friends. She got the odd bit of teasing, but nothing that seemed to overly affect her and she seemed to brush it off.
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