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Foster carers are classified as 'service providers'. Regardless of how attached they may have become to the kid, it's unreasonable to expect them to support someone else's, often problematic, child/young adult out of their own pocket.
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Originally posted by darmstadt View PostI'm not letting any bugger on here suckle on my breast...
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Originally posted by SueEllen View PostDon't be sensible.
The fact that those who have been in the care system may need lots more help than the average 18 year old is not what he wants to hear.
It's as if they've looked at the story, found nothing negative about it so they've gone with reporting some hypothetical current scenarios (without any examples) and just forgetting to mention that the new regulations are intended to avoid those situations happening.
Trouble with these stories is that commentators start competing to show how much holier than the next man they can be.
*On balance, it seems a reasonably sound idea so far as it goes. There's an element of kicking the can 3 years down the road but that might be enough to help some people.
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Originally posted by aardvark View PostOr the council may expect them to take in a new child now that they're no longer employed to look after the 18 year old.
The fact that those who have been in the care system may need lots more help than the average 18 year old is not what he wants to hear.
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Having my thoughts coloured by knowing a few people who are foster carers, I don't think it's a bad way to waste money
At least it something preventative that could cause less costs to the state further down the line
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Originally posted by GreyWolf View PostI had the same thought about the way it was being presented as being "not allowed to stay" with the foster parents. The media seemed to be trying to conjure up an image of jackbooted council enforcers calling round to eighteenth birthday parties to cart off any violators of the new regulations.
The reality, of course, is that the foster parents may, or may not, boot them out of the house once the cheques stop. Nothing new there.
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