Trends in care commissioning

• Management | Commissioning | Social Care | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care

Andrew Rome, director of Revolution Consulting, which...

Commissioning: Parent-infant relationship services

• Management | Commissioning | Attachment & Neglect | Preventing Care Proceedings | Social Care

Dr Karen Bateson, clinical psychologist and Wook Hamilton,...

Commissioning Children’s Social Care: Special Report

• Management | Commissioning | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care

Government plans in the wake of the Care Review aim to...

The big debate: Will regional commissioning improve sufficiency and efficiency of places?

• Management | Commissioning | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care

CYP Now hosts an expert panel to discuss whether government...

Commissioning: Coping with price rises

• Management | Commissioning | Cost-of-living | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care

Legal expert Léonie Cowen gives advice on how councils can...

Commissioning: The impact of inflation

• Management | Commissioning | Cost-of-living

Double-digit cost increases for providers are an issue...

Commissioning: Transition from care

• Management | Commissioning | Social Care | Leaving care

Councils need to develop a more flexible leaving care...

Commissioning: Assessing provider quality

• Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Commissioning | Management | Residential Children's Care

Care sector expert Andrew Rome sets out the implications for...

Commissioning: Ukraine scheme care pressures

• Social Care | Asylum | Management | Commissioning

Toni Badnall explains what councils can do to ensure they...

Partnership approach revives Plymouth placement market

• Social Care | Management | Commissioning

Faced with a shortage of beds, Plymouth Council worked with...

Southern authorities work together to stimulate foster care placements

• Management | Commissioning | Social Care | Foster Care

Consortium of 16 councils develop new framework to boost the...

Commissioning Care: Special Report

• Management | Commissioning | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Residential and specialist care | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care

Recommendations in the Care Review aim to improve...

Commissioning: Flexible placement practice

• Social Care | Management | Commissioning

Danny Wilson, head of children’s residential at Bedspace,...

Guide to funding the journey from care

• Commissioning | Leaving care

At NPC we’ve been investigating the availability and...

Better support for care leavers

• Leaving care | Commissioning

Ed Nixon explains how a charity is helping local authorities...

Commissioning of therapies

• Commissioning | Management | Health | Mental health | Mental Health

Some children need therapeutic support that does not fit...

Children's Care Commissioning Special Report

• Management | Commissioning | Social Care | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care

Commissioners of children's services are key to ensuring...

South East pilot gives care providers equal stake in developing placement contracts

• Social Care | Management | Commissioning | Fostering and adoption | Residential and specialist care | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care

Pilot project attempts to give care providers an equal say...

Fostering partnership to boost children's life chances

• Social Care | Commissioning | Foster Care

Midlands councils work with independent fostering provider...

Commissioning: Keeping co-production alive

• Management | Commissioning | Participation | Leaving Care | Residential Children's Care

Covid has made participation more difficult but has...

Commissioning: Person-centred intelligence

• Management | Commissioning

In his third article, Mark Kerr assesses how a new piece of...

Commissioning: Assessing needs and outcomes

• Management | Commissioning

Commissioners need to improve the evidence they gather on...

Guide to Outcomes-based Commissioning

• Management | Commissioning

As local authorities come under growing pressure to manage...

Commissioning: Why we monitor outcomes

• Management | Commissioning | Social Care

Needs assessments and outcomes monitoring must be at the...

Post-16 framework provides pointers for national scheme

• Management | Commissioning | Social Care | Residential Children's Care | Leaving Care

Hertfordshire's care commissioners for looked-after children...

Commissioning: Implications of divergence

• Management | Commissioning | Social Care | Residential Children's Care

The fragmentation of council commissioning arrangements is...

Commissioning: SEND provision in schools

• Education | Special Educational Needs | Management | Commissioning | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities

School leaders and council commissioners must ensure they...

Commissioning for wellbeing

• Mental health | Children's Services | Management | Commissioning | Mental Health

Commissioners should consider how best to meet the mental...

Commissioning: Social care placements

• Commissioning | Social Care | Residential Children's Care | Adoption | Foster Care

It is time for councils to create a level playing field...

Commissioning: Foster care relative costs

• Fostering and adoption | Commissioning | Service configuration | Foster Care

Children’s services commissioners need to take into account...

Shared Services: Special Report

• Children's Services | Early help | Information sharing | Management | Commissioning | Leadership | Service configuration | Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Fostering and adoption | Safeguarding and child protection

Fresh evidence suggests collaboration is helping local...

National framework contracts

• Commissioning

Are national framework contracts still fit for purpose, asks...

Commissioning: Rethinking youth provision

• Commissioning

To change the narrative on youth provision, commissioners...

Maximise pupil premium impact

• Commissioning | Financial management

What are the barriers that need to be overcome to get the...

Maximise pupil premium impact

• Commissioning | Financial management

What are the barriers that need to be overcome to get the...

Commissioning - Children's Workforce Qualifications and Training Guide

• Courses and training | Commissioning

Commissioning paediatric therapies

• Commissioning

Policy and practice can influence the purchasing of...

Commissioning: Predictive analytics

• Commissioning

Commissioners are using systems that predict need to shape...

Commissioning Children's Services: Special Report

• Commissioning

How children's services are commissioned has been the...

Commissioning: Design and collaborative working

• Commissioning

Only radical redesign and collaboration can fix the crisis...

Commissioning: Meeting the 'sufficiency' duties

• Commissioning

With demand for care placements being so high, it's vital...

Commissioning: When contracts go wrong

• Commissioning

Councils can take steps to minimise the damage and maximise...

Commissioning: Mental health transformation plans

• Mental health | Commissioning | Mental Health

Partnerships are crucial to ensure transformation plans...

Achieving impact and innovation

• Commissioning

Commissioners must balance the need to fund new ways of...

Commissioning for social value

• Commissioning

Toni Badnall-Neill explains how children's services...

Commissioning: Tackling domestic abuse

• Commissioning | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation

Joint commissioning is the most effective way to deliver...

GDPR and commissioning

• Commissioning

Changes to data protection rules can improve how councils...

Commissioning: Young people's services

• Commissioning

While funding is scarce, commissioners can still help embed...

Commissioning: Rethinking SEND support

• Commissioning | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities

Now the SEND transfer deadline has passed, councils must...

Commissioning: Children's centres and resilience

• Commissioning

When revising children's centres provision, councils must...

Trauma-informed commissioning delivers savings

• Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Fostering and adoption | Management | Commissioning | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care

Struggling council transforms how it commissions placements...

Regional sufficiency strategy controls costs

• Management | Commissioning | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care

Councils collaborate to optimise the commissioning of...

Step-down service improves placement stability

• Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Fostering and adoption | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care | Management | Commissioning

In-depth assessments identify ways to support young people...

Approach helps Hertfordshire measure value of care

• Commissioning | Social Care

Data allows targeted commissioning of services to meet...

Co-location helps Warwickshire take holistic view of needs

• Commissioning

Joined-up approach has expanded public health's reach and...

South London councils improve SEND commissioning

• Commissioning | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities

Consortium of local boroughs form a regional framework.

Salford City Council measures impact by social value

• Commissioning | Leaving Care

Support for vulnerable young people measured on its social...

Commissioning: Care placements and sufficiency

• Commissioning | Social Care | Residential Children's Care

A recent report warns of a crisis in care commissioning....

Commissioning: Infants in care proceedings

• Commissioning | Social Care

Toni Badnall-Neill explains how commissioning can support...

Ask the Experts: Address suspicions over legal highs

• Early Years | Nurseries | Health | Drugs and alcohol | Children's Services | Information sharing | Management | Commissioning | Leadership | Service configuration | Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Youth Work | Participation | Youth clubs

Our panel offers advice on the dangers of legal highs, child...

Profit Making and Risk in Independent Children’s Social Care Placement Providers

• Management | Commissioning | Social Care | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care

Local authorities in England spend more than £2bn a year...

Children's Homes Research

• Management | Commissioning | Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Residential Children's Care

The concerns of London local authorities in meeting...

Review of Sufficiency Strategies in London

• Management | Commissioning | Social Care | Residential Children's Care

Demand for children's services has been increasing...

Evaluation of Regional Adoption Agencies 2018-19

• Service configuration | Commissioning | Social Care | Fostering and adoption

This report presents findings from the first stage of the...

Commissioning Children's Palliative Care in England

• Commissioning

Together for Short Lives study into commissioning practices...

Commissioning in Children's Services: What works?

• Commissioning

This report looks specifically at how outsourcing local...