Ageing foster care workforce is a 'ticking time bomb', warns Loughton
Lauren Higgs
Monday, May 21, 2012
Fostering agencies must strive to recruit younger carers because the bulk of the workforce is approaching retirement, the children's minister Tim Loughton has warned.
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