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Are London's children really Kent's problem?

More than 1,300 children from London are being fostered in Kent. It is placing a huge drain on resources, costing over Β£500,000 to educate them and provide health and social care.

More than 1,300 children from London are being fostered in Kent. It is placing a huge drain on resources, costing over Β£500,000 to educate them and provide health and social care.

A group of headteachers in Thanet are worried about how disruptive the children can be and police say they spend a lot of time looking for them when they go missing.

Does it harm a child to grow up miles away from home? Were you fostered as a child? How far away from your original home did you live? What impact did it have on your life?

Is it selfish to look after a child from London or a great act of kindness? Are London's children really our problem?

Also on the programme, she was one of the first patients to be treated in accident and emergency at the new Tunbridge Wells hospital. She underwent an amputation of her right leg following a collision between her motorbike and a van on the A227 in Wrotham.

Now Tonbridge mother Leah Debus is determined to walk down to aisle on her wedding day. The 39-year-old is walking with the aid of a prosthetic limb and crutches and aims to move unaided when she marries her fiancee Nicky in September.

She is backing a campaign to change the driving theory test to help raise awareness of motorcycles in Britain and she joins Julia live in the studio to chat about the accident, her recovery and her drive for the future.

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Tue 28 Feb 2012 09:00

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  • Tue 28 Feb 2012 09:00