• How do you become a foster carer – and how much do you get paid?

    How do you become a foster carer – and how much do you get paid?
    Foster carers are in short supply in Britain and confusion over pay may be partly to blame. Here’s what you need to knowThere is a hug at the end of the novel Matilda that never ends. It is the one Miss Honey gives Matilda when her parents abandon her. “Matilda leapt into Miss Honey’s arms and hugged her, and Miss Honey hugged her back,” Roald Dahl wrote in 1988.Today, foster carers like Miss Honey are in short supply. Since 2014, the number of children coming into care h

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