Foster Care and faith

Available for over a year

A judge has ruled that a Christian girl who was placed with a Muslim foster family should live with her grandmother. The local authority involved, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, rejected a report in the Times newspaper which said the foster family did not speak English. It said the girl had been placed with an English-speaking, mixed-race family. Tower Hamlets Council said it had always intended to place the five-year-old in a relative's permanent care. Esmat Jeraj's family has provided care to some 60 foster children which has included Christians, Hindus and Sikhs. She gives her reaction to the story to BBC presenter Jona Kotnis