Children's services directors have refused to back down in a row with fostering providers over the practice by private agencies of offering golden hellos. Relations soured earlier this month after the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) accused profit-making independent fostering agencies of poaching carers from councils and then selling them back to local authorities at an inflated rate. A joint statement published by the Nationwide Association of Fostering Providers last week stressed the importance of working in partnership with local authorities.
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