Foster care in the United Kingdom
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Foster care in the United Kingdom
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Foster care in the modern sense was first introduced in the United Kingdom in 1853 when Reverend John Armistead removed children from a workhouse in Cheshire, and placed them with foster families. The local council was legally responsible for the children, and paid the foster parents a sum equal to the cost of maintaining the child in the workhouse. In the UK, there are nearly 70,000 children living with foster families each day. This is almost three-quarters of the total number of children in c
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