Home and Away looks set to bring foster children back to Summer Bay House, as Roo continues her journey to become an emergency foster carer.

While Summer Bay has been busy concentrating on Tane’s abduction of baby Poppy, along with Mali and Harper who were also potentially facing charges after learning of Tane’s location, the whole saga appears to have had a profound effect on Roo.

When Roo first visited Tane and baby ‘Maia’, as he had named her at the time, in the hospital to drop off some donations left at the surf club, Tane had slated the baby’s mother for leaving her on the beach.

Roo pointed out that the mother could have been struggling, and Maia had clearly been cared for, but Tane wasn’t willing to compromise on his viewpoint. If you’re a mum, then you figure that out or seek help.

Tane’s stance touched a nerve with Roo, who knew full well how it feels to be completely overwhelmed with a newborn.

Roo gave birth to daughter Martha back in 1988 when she was only 17. Although she didn’t go as far as abandoning her child, she faced the horror of Martha’s father Brett Macklin (Gerry Sont) briefly taking off with her, and later made the difficult decision to give Martha up for adoption after they both agreed they were unable to provide a stable enough environment.

Roo spent a lot of time visiting Maia at the hospital over the next couple of weeks. In the meantime Tane’s plans to become an emergency foster carer in order to look after Maia himself were thwarted after realising he’d need to be a permanent resident of Australia.

When Roo asked Tane if he’d thought of starting the process to become a resident, he explained it would be no good as it would still take a minimum of three months.

As Roo pondered that there must be someone in the local area who could take care of Maia, Tane asked if she would consider it herself.