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Jack Gramenz and Luke Costin

Ban on kids fostered in hotels despite carer shortage

Hotels, motels and caravan parks will no longer be used to house vulnerable children in NSW care. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

Attempts to recruit more foster carers have not kept pace with their exodus as a program shuttling vulnerable children through motels, hotels and caravan parks at huge taxpayer expense comes to an end.

The use of these types of unaccredited emergency accommodation in NSW - in the absence of foster-care arrangements - has been slammed in multiple reports as recently as August.

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