Vulnerable children are being placed in foster care families up to 500 miles from their home due to a desperate shortage of carers, the UK’s leading fostering charity has warned.
On average a child in care is placed more than 18 miles from their family and those who experience multiple placements are more likely to be placed more than 20 miles away.
The Fostering Network, which was pointing to research by charity Become, said some 7,200 foster families are needed to plug the gap.
