The row highlights the pressure local authorities are under to plug theshortfall of 10,000 foster carers across the UK.
Conservative councillor Ivan Ould, lead member for children and youngpeople's services at Leicestershire County Council, hit out atPeterborough City Council for placing an advert for adopters in theLeicester Mercury.
The councillor was unavailable for comment last week. But the localnewspaper quotes him as saying: "It would worry me that other localauthorities are advertising in Leicester when we already have a problemgetting adopters. There is a limited group of people who are prepared tocarry out adoption. The reality is that we are already struggling tofind both potential adopters and those who are prepared to foster. Wecan't stop them advertising but, at the same time, it is going to reducethe number of people we have available to us."
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