In a move that could herald a significant drop in numbers of young people held in the secure estate, the Youth Justice Board (YJB) signalled a desire to push forward with the idea after three pilot projects proved a success.
John Drew, chief executive of the YJB, said an evaluation report on the pilots, which is yet to be published, shows reoffending rates plummeted for children on intensive fostering placements compared with those sentenced to custody.
"We would advocate a national roll-out of intensive fostering in England and Wales," Drew told members of the Welsh National Assembly's Communities and Culture Committee last month.
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