A 15-year-old girl has been through a rapid succession of foster placements that have broken down. She's finally settled with foster parents she likes, but eventually they decide they can't continue looking after her. The girl wants to be able to visit them and she wants to stay at her school where she is doing well. "Before we would have really struggled to find a placement because she had been through those breakdowns," says Pete Taylor, contracts manager at Torbay council.
In the past, the council would have rung around the agencies it knew, but most of them would have wanted to place her in towns too far from her school and previous carers. But this time the council used a new system, which sends a tender to every approved provider in the area and a small agency got shortlisted.
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