Foster care

Legal battles of 17th Century foster mums revealed

Free bus travel for young people leaving care

We can do anything we put our minds to - care leaver

New family contact centre planned for city

The special mum who has helped more than 70 babies

Fostering recruitment drive launches

Children in care wait 10 years for permanent home - study

Kinship carers left to rely on 'foodbank leftovers'

People 'from all walks of life' wanted for fostering

Belongings of care children put in bin bags and lost

More respite carers needed to support families

Foster care costs leave council £17m over budget

'I was thrown in a children's home and cast aside'

Couple spend life savings on home for vulnerable kids

First of new children's homes set to open soon

Woman fostered more than 100 children and counting

Care leavers help improve services for children

New hub to plug urgent need for foster carers

Councils form regional fostering partnership

Carer 'not told' of teenager's suicidal feelings

Mum first in area to foster child through new scheme

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'My kids are in care, don’t judge me'