Research due to be published by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) today (26 February) reveals the Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care programme has helped reduce the level of intervention that children need in the long run.
The initiative combines training in behaviour management for foster carers and birth or adoptive parents with support from mental health, education and social services.
In May last year, CYP Now reported that councils were having trouble accessing the scheme (CYP Now, Children in Care: the Way Ahead, May 2008).
However, nine months on, Andrew Christie, director of children's services at Hammersmith and Fulham Borough Council, said: "It has proved to be a real success story. It has delivered on its promised outcomes and we have now placed a number of children with very complex needs, moving them from a high-cost placement into foster homes."
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