Mark Kerr

Financial and recruitment pressures are leading to a crisis for children in residential care. Picture: insta_photos/Adobe Stock
Analysis

Wider factors influencing the closure of children's homes

Residential Children's Care
Mark Kerr: "We must do better in assessing and understanding the needs and outcomes of children and young people in care"
Features

Commissioning: Person-centred intelligence

Management
Mark Kerr: "We must do better in assessing and understanding the needs and outcomes of children and young people in care"
Features

Commissioning: Assessing needs and outcomes

Management
Local authority commissioners and providers came together to identify how to improve finding placements for challenging cases. Picture: EGGEEGGJIEW/Adobe Stock
Features

Commissioning: Why we monitor outcomes

Management
Mark Kerr is chief executive at The Centre for Outcomes of Care
Research

Research: Commissioning – Placement Planning - Research evidence: Study 1

Social Care
More time spent with family is shown to improve children’s outcomes
Research

Research: Commissioning – Placement Planning - Research evidence: Study 2

Social Care
Research

Research: Commissioning – Placement Planning - Research evidence: Study 3

Social Care
Children's homes have seen an increase in referrals for short term placements. Picture: Adobe Stock
Research

Research: Commissioning – Placement Planning - Research evidence: Study 4

Social Care
Opinion

'Emergency legislation is another attempt to push through exemption clause changes'

Social Care