The announcement came as the responses to the Care Matters green paper were revealed last week. As well as the formal responses, the Department for Education and Skills published a version of young people's thoughts on the proposals.
The views were mixed, but many respondents wanted the Government to concentrate on policies that would make a real difference to children, rather than all 122 proposals.
One of the main ideas that young people wanted developed was to ensure every person in a family is looked at as a potential carer before a child is considered for a care placement.
Speaking at the response launch, children's minister Beverley Hughes said: "One of the things that we have got to address coming out of the consultation is making sure at the outset that when a child is having difficulties that every option is being pursued, especially the option of other family."
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