Responding to the recommendations of the fostering stocktake and the education select committee inquiry on foster care, the government said it agreed that foster care needs to be considered as part of the wider care system.
The government has already created an Adoption Leadership Board, announced in 2014, and a Residential Care Leadership Board, announced last year, to oversee those specific areas of practice.
It will now establish a new National Stability Forum for Children's Social Care which will be chaired by the director general at the Department for Education - currently Indra Morris - the most senior civil servant with responsibility for children's social care.
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