The national independent fostering providers forum agreed last week to set up a focus group, as a precursor to a working party, to develop a common model for measuring outcomes.
The Every Child Matters reforms emphasise improving outcomes for all children but there is no single tool for measuring the progress that children in foster placements make.
Philip Sutton, development worker at The Fostering Network and spokesman for the forum, explained that a common tool would help independent providers show councils what they achieved with children.
- philip.sutton@fostering.net.
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