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Foster parents` maintenance to increase.

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(From The Gleaner)

Byline: Rhonda Schaffler

THE CHILD Development Agency`s (CDA) plans to increase the maintenance paid to some foster parents has been welcomed by the Kingston and St. Andrew Foster Parents` Association.

"I don`t know how much it is being raised to (but) if that is so, it will be greeted with a certain amount of relief," said Shari Tomlinson, president of the association.

Last week, the CDA said it was in the process of submitting a proposal to Cabinet for an increase in the maintenance paid to foster parents.

Winston Bowen, director of programmes at the CDA, declined to state the size of the proposed increase but told The Gleaner on Tuesday that the CDA was hoping to make submissions to Cabinet by April.

Ms. Tomlinson said on Monday that the current sum of $3,500 per month per child was inadequate. Payments, she said, were made bi-monthly, leaving several of the island`s more than 700 foster ...

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