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“There was a lot that didn’t appeal about being a mum in a conventional sense. There’s still so many things I struggle with and a lot of it is in relation to inequality and the price that mothers pay, and I was finding that really hard to reconcile.”She and her partner had talked about “one day we might adopt” but when the radio advert popped up saying there was a desperate shortage of foster carers in her area, something clicked.

“I’d never even considered foster care and it felt like a really measured, safe way into that work,” she says, adding that although they are currently offering short-term respite care, they could see themselves moving into longer term fostering in the future.Partly because they started the process when the pandemic lockdowns hit and partly just because it takes time anyway, the path to becoming approved took around a year.“We started doing training which we found fascinating. That’s one of the things weird about fostering is that I absolutely love the training. I know that’s probably other people’s nightmare,” she says.

“Then you have an assessment which is in excess of 60 hours of interviews with the social worker who assesses you.”She describes their social worker as “absolutely fantastic” but added: “That doesn’t mean they don’t ask a lot of tough questions.

“They want to know everything about your upbringing, your wages, your pets, how your resolve arguments. We were interviewed together and then we were interviewed separately and then our friends were interviewed, previous partners, all this kind of thing.

“You could say it’s invasive but there was no point at which I felt violated.It is hoped the bridge would give pedestrians and cyclists a route across the river away from main roads.

It would link the south of the city and Fletton Quays area to the new university campus, ARU Peterborough.The council is working to redevelop Fletton Quays, with a buyer found for a disused Victorian railway goods shed, which plans to turn it into a food and drinks hall.

The authority has also agreed to sell the unfinished Hilton Garden Inn, which has been under construction for seven years, in the hopes of clawing back its investment in the project.Construction of the bridge is due to start in the summer and go on until spring or summer next year.