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It also urged Ofsted inspectors to look carefully at referral processes carried out by fostering services to help improve standards.

"The Fostering Network estimates that there is an urgent need for fostering services to recruit 8,370 new foster carers across the UK in 2015, to meet the needs of the rising number of children coming into care".

The challenge is now for all fostering services to empower their existing and potential male foster carers, and to reassure them that they have a crucial role to play, either as sole carers or as half of a fostering couple.

They have also been working with local adoption and fostering services to find families for unwanted baby girls and providing medical care, food, and personal support to parents of young babies.

That's why we are supporting fostering services to help them target their recruitment towards those who are already working with teenagers – youth workers and teachers for example – as well as thinking about the messaging that is being used, to try to appeal to those who might thrive on the challenge.

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 that are prepared to pay and support their foster carers properly have shown that it is possible to recruit the number of foster carers needed, but unfortunately many still have to learn this lesson.

We are taking forward an ambitious programme of work to improve fostering services and we will shortly announce our reforms to residential care".

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.

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