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A fostering scheme where families will be paid to take elderly people into their homes is to be tried in Leicester.
Carers will be paid ?224 a week and Leicester City Council will pay for modifications to their homes.
Age UK warned that potentially vulnerable people could be placed in homes with strangers.
But the council said carers would be vetted before being approved, and care would be closely monitored.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-25724353
Carers will be paid ?224 a week and Leicester City Council will pay for modifications to their homes.
Age UK warned that potentially vulnerable people could be placed in homes with strangers.
But the council said carers would be vetted before being approved, and care would be closely monitored.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-25724353