‘One foster child behaved like an adult as she’d had to parent her mum’

When Carol-Ann Morrison talks about why she became a foster parent, she gives a simple answer. However, her words also gives a bleak snapshot into what life can be like for a child who isn’t lucky enough to have a supportive, loving family.

‘I wanted to protect a child from any of the things I encountered and give them a chance of a happy life – the one that I was denied,’ Carol-Ann, 60, tells Metro.co.uk. ‘My childhood was…