Foster families need generosity and love, but also fair pay | Letters

Foster carers and professionals respond to Jimmy Johnstone’s moving article about the importance of foster care workJimmy Johnstone touches on the wider issue of the need to professionalise foster care (Foster care saves lives. Our work deserves employment rights, theguardian.com, 23 October). At a time when CAMHS waiting lists stretch to months even for priority cases (I know this, I’m a GP) foster carers provide what is often the only therapeutic input to the most vulnerable childr