Local Voices

031: The Family Who Fostered 50 Children


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#31: Over 600 children entered foster care for the first time in Ireland in 2019 and the enormous work that foster carers do to support those children has a profound impact. Bernadette Coventry, along with her husband Robert, fostered 50 children over a 38-year period and she joins host Hayden Moore along with Catherine Coventry, who they began fostering when she was just six-weeks-old. Sandra O'Neill also speaks about what fostering is, the misconceptions around fostering and the work she does with Tusla - the only organisation that provides a fostering service to the public.

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