Jane was 55, single, and a manager for Tesco when she decided to foster seven years ago. Since then she has fostered 17 children in that time.
She currently looks after three babies but enjoys the challenges of caring for teenagers.
“It is the babies that keep you up at night! I love all of them, though. They are all special. I have a baby who is 12 weeks old and her sister who is 14 months, plus a little boy who I’ve had for 18 months who is two and a half.”
Of teenagers, she said: “Once you get to know them, they just want to sit and chat.” One of her foster children came to live with her when she was 14 and left when she was 20.
“She hadn’t been to school for a year and I managed to get her back into school. She went on to do a hair and beauty course and came top of her year.”
She added one of her teenagers once said to her: ‘I didn’t know it was like this to be in a family, it’s lovely.”
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