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Terrestrial The Insider: Bring Back the Orphanage Channel 4, 7.30pm Author Phil Frampton was raised in a Barnardo's Children's Home. Despite witnessing abuse and being beaten and bullied himself, he argues that the home gave him the stability to make a better start in life than the fostering system achieves for most children in its care today. With a shortage of 8000 foster carers, too many children in foster care are frequently moved from pillar to post around the system, with each move invariably damaging the child emotionally and educationally. Phil argues that the over-emphasis on fostering, combined with massive cuts in the number of places available in residential children's homes, condemns children in care - who have already suffered the breakdown of their own families - to yet more instability and a very poor start in life.