The contract is the last in a suite of three, which has already seen such agreements devised for placements in independent special schools and residential children's homes. A group, which has already met a couple of times, has been formed to draw up the contract. Members of the group include local authority commissioners, the Fostering Network, independent fostering providers and the Department for Children, Schools and Families. Philip Sutton, the Fostering Network's independent fostering provider development worker, said: "The aim is...