‘When the girls moved away from home, we found we had all the time in the world to ourselves. There were a few years where we had 3 or 4 holidays a year; but eventually, we knew something was missing. We missed the kids; we were good at bringing the girls up, and it personally meant a lot to me because the girls were not my biological children. I felt that I had personally learned so much from having the girls in my life’.

‘One day we asked ourselves the question; why don’t we think about fostering? And the more we thought about it, the more it made sense. There was a big gap in our lives; a children’s sized gap’.