The award sets a minimum standard designed to ensure that foster carersand residential homes provide a healthy setting.
It also encourages looked-after children, their foster carers andresidential children's homes to develop healthy lifestyles, through aHealthy Homes pack and health-related activities such as cookeryclubs.
Funding is from the local drugs and alcohol team, and a child andadolescent mental health grant.
Maria Cody, children's services commissioner for Central LiverpoolPrimary Care Trust, said: "The results are encouraging."
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