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Culture Wars: Power, Silence and Moral Decline

This week on Foster Care Uncovered, Sarah and Louise tackle the growing culture crisis inside fostering.

From Josh MacAlister’s latest social media backlash and the controversy around foster carer pay messaging, to the Government’s new Practice Guide for supporting foster carers, they ask a bigger question: why does fostering increasingly feel like a system more focused on managing narratives than listening to frontline reality?

They explore the culture of fear many carers describe, and why so many feel unable to speak openly without judgment, repercussions or being shut down altogether.

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