The number of children in foster care has increased in the past five years, after the Ministry of Social and Family Development's (MSF) efforts to place more children who have been abused, abandoned or neglected under the care of foster parents instead of in a children's home.
There were 545 children in foster care last year, up from 535 in 2018 and 362 in 2015.
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