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At any one time between 400 and 450 vulnerable children in Barking and Dagenham are living with foster families

Foster Care Fortnight: Call goes out for more foster carers in the west

There are around 500 children in Haringey who are in desperate need of a loving home, yet the council has just 120 foster carers on its books – and most of them are in the east of the borough.

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Helen Sweetlove has been a foster carer for three-and-a-half years.

Fostering case study 1: Helen Sweetlove

Helen Sweetlove was inspired to begin fostering after reading the story of Baby P.

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Housing benefit claimants are being pushed towards the outskirts of London, new figures have revealed. Picture: Getty/Matt Cardy

Haringey’s housing benefit claimants rise by two per cent as people pushed out of central London

Haringey is beginning to feel the burden of escalating rents and the government’s cuts as people claiming housing benefit start to move away from central London.

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Cllr Alan Strickland

Haringey Labour campaign targets ‘legal loan sharks’

‘Legal loan sharks’ across the borough are the target of a new campaign by Haringey Labour.

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Tottenham in focus

Pastor Alex Gyasi says the homeless shelter at Highway House is full to bursting point

Tottenham in focus: the ‘hidden’ homeless who seek sanctuary on a church floor

“Some of the people who come to us have not eaten for three days – just imagine what that is like”

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Celebrity / Showbiz

Helen Mirren is shown around the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2013. Picture: Keith Larby/iwitness

Picture gallery: Chelsea Flower Show 2013

The RHS Chelsea Flower Show opens to the public today, but celebrities and VIPs, including the Queen, have already had a look at the floral displays.

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