Have you got what it takes to become a foster parent in Thurrock?
I don't know. What does it take?
OPENING your home to a child in need has its high and lows, but it can also give you a new lease of life, according to some of the borough’s foster carers.
Thurrock is not immune to the national shortage of foster carers, with 239 children in care at the moment, and just 101 households willing to foster.
The council is on the lookout for more people to train up, particularly those who can take siblings in, and people from the black and minority ethnic community.
Well that leaves me out.
Roland Minto, Thurrock Council’s service manager for the placement and support service, said: “There is a national shortage, we need more foster carers, but so does everybody else.
Another solution would be for them to stop taking so many kids.
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