The Fostering Network, which represents foster services and foster carers, has received a government grant to raise the number and widen the range of young people taking part in CiCCs.
Costa said these bonds could be effective in many areas, including job training, health care, foster services for at-risk kids, drug rehabilitation programs, and combating homelessness.
Busting myths about who can foster is vital to encouraging a range of different people to make that crucial first enquiry, says Staffordshire council's fostering service manager Amanda Fritz.
In addition to already adopted strategies, we plan to adopt the standards that will closer define fostering service, and we also plan to start a campaign to raise public awareness about the benefits and importance of foster care," Numanovic said.
The peer-led model also fosters service delivery sustainability such that after the intervention period is over trained LHAs will retain the ability to provide advice and assistance to housing residents.
But there is a shortage of families willing to take on the challenge – the Fostering Network, the charity that supports fostered children and fostering families, estimates that UK fostering services need to recruit a further 8,370 foster families this year to meet rising demand.
Fostering services throughout the UK are struggling to find enough foster carers for teenagers.
That's why it's so important that fostering services find the right foster home for each child, first time.
It also urged Ofsted inspectors to look carefully at referral processes carried out by fostering services to help improve standards.
