Surrey County Council, which has to place more than 100 of its 500 children and young people needing a family outside of the county because of the shortage of foster carers, is to hold information evenings on becoming a foster carer for registered childminders. It chose them because they already have experience of looking after other people's children in their own homes.
Linda Johnson, fostering recruitment manager at Surrey County Council, said, 'We are particularly looking for foster carers for children aged from nought to five, and for teenagers.
'Childminders are a group of people who already have certain skills related to working with children, plus there are similarities in some of the training that foster carers and childminders do.'
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