More suitable housing could help keep and recruit foster families in Dorset
COULD local housing associations help solve Dorset’s shortage of foster families? Councillors have been told that if more, suitable homes, were made available, keeping and recruiting foster families might improve. Dorset councillor Andrew Kerby says that 90 per cent of potential foster families he talks to claim the only thing holding them back is the lack of space – and yet the council has the ability to change the situation. The council’s corporate parenting panel has also been told of cases where foster carers, or those being cared for, are sleeping on a sofa because of a sho...
Source: bridportnews.co.uk