The contract is the last in a suite of three, which has already seen such agreements devised for placements in independent special schools and residential children's homes.
A group, which has already met a couple of times, has been formed to draw up the contract. Members of the group include local authority commissioners, the Fostering Network, independent fostering providers and the Department for Children, Schools and Families.
Philip Sutton, the Fostering Network's independent fostering provider development worker, said: "The aim is to provide consistency. We have a situation at the moment where each local authority either has their own contract or they have none at all and use providers' contracts. There are also a number of regional commissioning contracts. What this means is different contracts around the country add up to different things. The idea is to have one that's acceptable to everybody."
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