I am delighted that Unwanted remains in the UK top ten for another week. Thank you for all your kind comments. I write my books to raise awareness so I am pleased this book has reached so many. Harper Collins have bought world rights in Cruel To Be Kind, Cathy Glass’s account of fostering six year old Max. Lara seems to love her son and Cathy can see that but still having to follow the guidelines of never leaving the two together unsupervised.

It’s for a little boy, Arthur, he’s just one year old. He went to an emergency carer yesterday, but she can only keep him for the weekend so he will need to be moved on Monday.’ It was a mother and child foster placement. My role was to keep Arthur safe, assess Lara’s parenting capacity, and give her help and advice where necessary in the hope she would be able to make the necessary changes to keep her son. I felt the responsibility especially as all the social worker’s ‘visits’ were online due to continuing covid restrictions. It was as though Lara’s future lay in my hands.Oh. That was the original plan, but the judge didn’t accept our recommendations. She wants Arthur kept with his mother while we carry out a parenting assessment. It seems your supervising social worker wasn’t updated.’

For a third week running Cathy Glass’s fostering memoir Neglected is at no 8 , it’s sixth week in the top ten.

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I am delighted to say that Unsafe has stayed at No 1 in the UK charts. Thank you for all your kind comments. They are greatly appreciated. It was suggested, but Lara is adamant that Arthur’s bruises were a result of him falling. The emergency foster carer took him to the hospital for a scan and there are no Harper Collins have bought World rights in Cathy Glass’s A Dreadful Secret, the story of fourteen-year old Layla who puts herself into foster care because of problems at home.