
My partner already had a son who was working and lived away from home and although I had no desire to have my own birth children I felt that I had a lot to offer children who perhaps weren’t lucky enough to have had the loving and positive start in life that I had enjoyed.

What is your definition of an important job? Company Director? Airline Pilot? Member of Parliament?

On any one day there are around 40,000 children living in foster homes in the UK, with thousands more moving in and out of them during the year.

What was it that attracted you to fostering rather than adoption?
My partner has already got a child in her teens and I had tried to get pregnant myself but failed.