Foster Care and faith
A judge has ruled that a Christian girl who was placed with a Muslim foster family should live with her grandmother. The local authority involved, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, rejected a report in the Times newspaper which said the foster family did not speak English. It said the girl had been placed with an English-speaking, mixed-race family. Tower Hamlets Council said it had always intended to place the five-year-old in a relative's permanent care. Esmat Jeraj's family has provided care to some 60 foster children which has included Christians, Hindus and Sikhs. She gives her reaction to the story to ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ presenter Jona Kotnis
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