YES - Raymond Bewry, chair, Norfolk Foster Care Association
Our proposal would broaden the scope for foster carers to find a match within the support structure.
A lot of placements fail because of a relationship breakdown between the foster carer and fostering provider, or their supervising social worker. That is sometimes due to the foster carer feeling unsupported. There are registered foster carers both without placements and with fewer children than they are approved to have.
There are foster carers who have been encouraged to give up their careers to focus on fostering, and then find themselves in one of the situations described above.
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