• ‘I gave up my job to become a foster carer – it’s enriched my life’

    Libby Thornhill, 60 on why she started started fostering – and why it meant buying a bigger car
    Name: Libby Thornhill
    Age: 60
    Income: £15,000 plus an allowance of £9,074
    Occupation: full-time foster carerTwo weeks after my husband and I were approved to be foster carers, we received a call to say that two brothers, aged seven and 10, would be coming to live with us in less than an hour. Continue reading...

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