28 May 2025, 10:17

By Samantha

My great nephew was in foster care while I was being assessed to be a kinship foster carer and it was a case of either I took him, or he would be adopted.

I asked the school where I was working as a teaching assistant for time off and about flexible working, but they didn’t offer me anything, and so it put me in a difficult situation. As a single mum, I didn’t know how I was supposed to look after my baby nephew if I couldn’t get time off work.

I had colleagues who were taking adoption and maternity leave, but there was........

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