Special guardians deserve the right advice and support from councils before taking on the role, says the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman.
The findings come from an Ombudsman report in which Bedford Borough Council unfairly cut the financial support to a couple, after asking them to become special guardians to the children they were fostering.
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