Hampshire County Council has just launched a raft of pilot measures to encourage more people to foster and to offer more support to those who do.
But Sue Kocaman, strategy service manager for fostering and adoption at the council, said while the pilots result from a national fostering task force set up by the Department for Education and Skills, which was designed to look at best practice, there was no routine way for local authorities around the country to share best practice.
"In a sense, our pilots are not that innovative, they're all being done in one form or another around the country," said Kocaman. "What authorities have to do is fit the schemes to local circumstances, while learning from each other and from independent fostering providers too. In Hampshire, for instance, we meet these providers every three months."
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