"The thing to do is to support the community, to support local agencies and charities who can lookafterthechild so that thechild is at least cared for in their community, " he said.
The group was set up in response to the Williamson Report, published in 2008, into child protection services, which recommended a better resourced independent service should be set up to lookafter children on theChild Protection Register.
Young urban couples, many of them without siblings, will find themselves with four parents to lookafter and will themselves have only one child (known as the 4-2-1 phenomenon).