'Pay good wage for fostering'.FOSTER carers must be paid a proper salary if a shortage of 10,000 is to be filled, a charity warns. Fostering Network says three in four parents are paid below the minimum wage, while 40 per cent are paid nothing at all. The charity wants them to be paid the same as residential social workers - about pounds 400 a week. Foster carers are paid by their local council - and the rates differs widely. They all get an allowance of up to pounds 155 a week to cover the cost. Chief executive Robert Robert, Henry Martyn 1837-1923. American army engineer and parliamentary authority. He designed the defenses for Washington, D.C., during the Civil War and later wrote Robert's Rules of Order (1876). Noun 1. Tapsfield will talk to MPs on Tuesday Tuesday: see week. . He said: "The reality is if we don't pay people it's not possible for people to be foster carers." |
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