Every Child Matters: Change for Children, published last week, pledges more help for the profession, including a new helpline providing "impartial advice and support" that will be established in January 2005.
It is the first time the Government has put a date on the long-promised scheme.
The Fostering Network welcomed the project but said it should be run locally and should be available 24 hours a day, "If a child goes missing in the middle of the night there is not much a national helpline can do," said campaigns manager Vicki Swain.
The network's Manifesto for Change, which was due to be launched today (8 December), calls for 24-hour local support from fostering experts.
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