Grandmother refused foster rights

A GRANDMOTHER is taking her local health board to court over its refusal to grant her foster care rights to her two grandchildren.

The grandmother has been looking after her two grandchildren for almost four years because of her daughter's inability to care for them due to a chronic heroin problem.

Carol is one of a growing number of grandparents forced to become parents again because of their own children's drug addiction, but are receiving little or no help from the State.