The Care Crisis Review, which launched last November, found that professionals need to collaborate more with families of vulnerable children and work with them towards a plan to allow them to stay with their relatives - an arrangement known as kinship care.
The number of children in care has risen dramatically in recent years, placing strain on local authority children's services departments and the family justice system.
Statistics published last year show that the number of children in care is rising at its fastest rate in five years, with 72,670 children in care in the 12 months to the end of March 2017, compared with 70,440 the year before and 69,480 in 2015.
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