Jimmy Johnstone touches on the wider issue of the need to professionalise foster care (Foster care saves lives. Basic “skills to foster” training is now typically delivered over two weekends and augmented in an ad hoc way with whatever other continuing development training is available locally. We are paid at the highest rate of any foster carers and we get two weeks’ paid leave annually. These children, and the foster families who care for them, should be valued much more. At this moment, I am aware of clinicians continuing to work with families when arrangements to pay them have broken down.

Source: The Guardian October 25, 2019 15:33 UTC