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Foster kids in safer homes after 'cage to cage' life

Vulnerable youth are no longer being housed in motels for lack of care homes open for emergencies. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

Foster children can look forward to some safety and stability after being hauled between hotels and motels for lack of carer homes offering emergency shelter.

The NSW government is abolishing the prohibitively expensive and outsourced practice of temporarily placing vulnerable children and young people with rotating caseworkers in hotels, motels and even caravan parks in emergency situations. 

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