“Smokers will be prevented from fostering children under the age of 5 once the smoking ban comes into force on July 1, The Times has learnt.”

This is ridiculous. Rather than simply banning foster parents from smoking inside the house or nearby their foster children, they are to be barred from fostering under-5s at all. It’s complete overkill, and will surely just compound the problem of a shortage of foster parents. From The Times, here.

Posted Thursday, June 21st, 2007 @ 11:35 am
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