I’d like to dedicate this story to all foster carers and social workers, and also to the family support workers and others who dedicate their lives to the service. As far as I’m concerned, these people are some of the forgotten heroes of the terrible pandemic of 2020. Can you imagine having a houseful of troubled children, and then being told you must all be confined to the house 24/7? Teenagers who are used to going out and doing their own thing, toddlers, used to playing with their friends at the park or at nursery, and school-age children who already struggle with learning can no longer go to their place of education. All families have struggled with these problems, but for foster carers it’s been so much harder. Some of us barely knew the children who got ‘locked down’ with us. Some of us had to report our children as missing, even though we knew they just couldn’t take being locked down and had gone to meet with a friend. It’s been a terrible year for everybody, but I know just how difficult it has been for my particular group of colleagues, and I salute each and every one of you. God bless, and I pray that next year is better for all of us.