Children raised by friends or relatives are being ‘plunged into poverty’, says UK charity

Children raised by friends or relatives are being ‘plunged into poverty’, says UK charity

A lack of financial and emotional support for kinship carers could push up to 18,000 children into an already overstretched foster care system Children are being “plunged into ­poverty”, a charity says, because of a lack of support for kinship ­carers – relatives or family friends who step in to look after children after a…