{"id":69990,"date":"2025-01-07T07:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T07:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=69990"},"modified":"2025-01-07T07:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T07:06:09","slug":"shortage-of-foster-carers-causing-very-real-uk-crisis-barnardos-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/01\/07\/shortage-of-foster-carers-causing-very-real-uk-crisis-barnardos-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortage of foster carers causing \u2018very real\u2019 UK crisis, Barnardo\u2019s warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1ufRGt.img?w=768&amp;h=461&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Brenda Farrell of Barnado\u2019s said there were thousands of children in care waiting for \u2018safe, happy homes\u2019 but not enough carers to accommodate them. Photograph: Martin Godwin\/The Guardian\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The UK is facing a fostering crisis where retiring carers are not being replaced by younger people, while the number of children entering care homes is rising, a charity has warned. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/shortage-of-foster-carers-causing-very-real-uk-crisis-barnardo-s-warns\/ar-AA1x58oV?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&amp;cvid=eef1c276c1a140f29f4dcaf0dcd0a55d&amp;ei=17\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The UK is facing a fostering crisis where retiring carers are not being replaced by younger people, while the number of children&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-69990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/carers.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69991,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69990\/revisions\/69991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}