Foster carers in Victoria receive just $231 per week – one quarter the cost of caring for a child

Exclusive: Report by Australian Institute of Family Studies found payments to foster carers fall ‘significantly short of a meaningful contribution’ Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Louise Black has seen the good and the bad sides of out-of-home care. Foster caring was common among the Catholic community in south-east Melbourne in which she grew up. The family over the road regularly fostered children, while also having four of their own. Black’s father, on the other…