The summit has been called by Gauteng MEC of social development Nandi Mayathula-Khoza to help find solutions that have troubled foster care in the province.This was revealed in a shocking report tabled by Nelisiwe Moerane‚ a member of the ministerial committee on foster grants. The 22-member committee was established by the Social Development Minister to look into the problems in foster parenting. It visited the Gauteng province from August to October 2015.Suffer the children of SANew research has exposed what it's like to be a child living in South Africa - and it paints a gloomy picture. Moerane told the summit on foster care held in Turffontein‚ Johannesburg‚ that mothers would sometimes use their foster girls for cash and not take any action when there was sexual abuse from male members of the family.“We found that the foster parents are the ones who are abusing the children in the home. Other children are left by foster parents without any parental supervision. Foster parents would get married elsewhere and they leave the children behind‚” said Moerane.The summit has been called by Gauteng MEC of social development Nandi Mayathula-Khoza to help find solutions that have troubled foster care in the province.Gauteng has 56‚800 children receiving foster grants.Moerane said the conditions in which the children were living were shocking. Children did not have blankets and some even slept on the floor while their foster parents received the grant from the state.The committee found that there were files indicating that people received the grants but the houses and actual families could not be traced.Other issues included in Moerane's report included: - sick and old age foster parents who also need care; - girls being forced to prostitute themselves when foster grants ended; - parents using the money from the grant for gambling and buying building material; and - social workers not having enough resources to execute their duties...