Felicity Collier, chief executive of the British Association for Adoption and Fostering, told Children Now that she had gained the support of a number of organisations for the measure.
She said a peer would be tabling the amendment in the House of Lords at the earliest opportunity. The Bill's Lords committee stage was due to get underway yesterday (4 May).
"We need to grasp the legislative opportunity to try and set a national minimum standard," she said. "If we do nothing we are going to end up with a situation where kids are back in residential care and that would be appalling.
"How can it be right that in one area of the country 50 is paid a week and in others they get the full cost?" The amendment is likely to state that the education secretary should set the minimum allowance, although Collier said she would like to see the Fostering Network's national minimum standard followed.
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