The taskforce, which formally launched this week, said its year-long project will challenge "patchy and inadequate" support for kinship carers and their families.
Its formation comes on the back of publication earlier this year of the findings of the Care Crisis Review, which called for more children suffering abuse or neglect to be placed with their wider family in order to reduce numbers coming into the care system.
Last month the Department for Education released figures showing the number of children in care has risen again, topping 75,000 for the first time.
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