The couple who asked not to be identified are delighted with the decision [GETTY]

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The pair have turned to another authority, claiming that after taking away the children, Rotherham blocked their attempts to foster again, leaving them unable to get the children they longed for.

The revelation comes in the wake of the damning report into the ­decades-long sexual exploitation of at least 1,400 young girls in the South Yorkshire town.

Social services, police and other agencies were all condemned last week for failing to protect the victims of a mainly Pakistani rape network, partly because they feared being branded racist.

Last night social services were accused of “outrageous bullying tactics” towards the foster couple and the council was damned as being “rotten to the core”.

The pair’s three eastern European children, two girls and a boy, were removed in November 2012 when the Labour-run council learned the couple were Ukip members. At the time Joyce Thacker, the council’s strategic director of children and young people’s services, said the decision was influenced by Ukip immigration policy, which she claimed called for an end to the “active promotion of multiculturalism”.

The couple, a nursery nurse in her 50s and a former Royal Navy reservist who had been fostering for seven years, were told they could foster again, but only “white children”.

Yet the pair, who were registered with a fostering agency, were never offered any more youngsters. They claim Rotherham also refused to give them a reference, making it impossible to foster elsewhere.

Now, however, they have been lined up to foster with a different local authority and are due to have their new children by Christmas.

Last night, speaking on behalf of the couple who have asked not to be identified, Ukip’s Rotherham organiser John Wilkinson said: “They are absolutely delighted they will soon become foster parents again and can’t wait to meet their new family.

“The council they are with has taken up their references and has been training them and the last meeting is scheduled to take place around Christmas when they hope to meet their new foster children.

“It has not been an easy road for them and has taken them nearly two years to get back to fostering again and not with Rotherham borough council. They have had great difficulty.”