Twins Claire and Kelly Miller were being fostered with a view of adoption by a quiet kindly couple the Blakes. They had lost their own daughter Sharon in an accident. Claire a quiet girl herself was worried her tearaway sister would put the Blakes off adopting them.
For three years, 12 year old Sandra Kane had been like a big sister to little Todd and Lucy Hamilton, at the Wellbank Children’s Home . So when the Hamiltons went to foster parents, the Harts, Sandra agreed to be fostered by the Listers. But this was only because they lived nearby the Harts and Sandra could continue to be Todd and Lucy’s “Big Sister”.
Although Trudi Forbes was happy at Greenbank Children’s Home, she hoped to be fostered by a friendly lady named Mrs Coles Then Trudi learned that Mrs Cole preferred the challenge of fostering difficult children – so Trudi decided she would pretend to be a “baddie”.