The move over adoption powers is being unveiled by Children and Families Minister Edward Timpson.

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Mr Timpson wants such teenagers to be given higher allowances towards setting up home and more foster placements.

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Her Tory rival is Edward Timpson, a young lawyer whose family own a national chain of shoe-repair outlets.

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