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Fostering through a pandemic: should foster carers be prioritised for the coronavirus vaccine?

With the rollout of the coronavirus vaccine getting under way across the UK, there has been a lot of debate about who gets priority, with frontline health workers and the clinically vulnerable at the front of the queue.

But foster carers say they should be further up the priority list, as many are still being asked to bring their foster children to weekly in-person meetings.

The Nine's Hope Webb has been speaking to carers who worry that, without access to the vaccine soon, their health could be at risk.

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