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City faces foster care shortage

Helen Walton is a local foster carer in the Broken Hill area. Picture: Supplied
Lachlan Gould

NATIONAL Carers Week is marked in mid-October and part of the awareness push to to shine a light on Australia’s three million carers. In Broken Hill, there is a lack of foster parents, with only four foster care authorised households in the district as of June this year. “Often in cities, kids move between placements […]

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