{
  "id": 4267397,
  "title": "Foster carers in Victoria receive just $231 per week – one quarter the cost of caring for a child",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/29/foster-carers-in-victoria-receive-just-231-per-week-one-quarter-the",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-29T20:00:37.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian Australia",
    "slug": "the-guardian-australia",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/aug/30/foster-carer-payments-victoria-lowest-allowance-cost-of-care-ntwnfb"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Exclusive: Report by Australian Institute of Family Studies found payments to foster carers fall ‘significantly short of a meaningful contribution’ Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Louise Black has seen the good and the bad sides of out-of-home care. Foster caring was common among the Catholic community in south-east Melbourne in which she grew up. The family over the…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}