Furore about child’s Muslim foster carer ‘a threat to service’

Review chief, Sir Martin Narey, says ‘misleading’ reports could prove disastrous if they stop potential carers coming forward

The man heading the government’s review into fostering has warned that “misleading” claims about a white Christian child looked after by mixed-race Muslim foster parents could deter people from ethnic minorities from offering their services, with “disastrous” consequences.

Sir Martin Narey, joint head of the inquiry into foster care provision, said that the furore surrounding the case, which centred on a five-year-old girl in east London who was placed by Tower Hamlets council with foster carers who were not considered a cultural match, could reverse a decade and a half of progress.

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