Trends in care commissioning

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

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

Inspections Clinic: Homes for Disabled Children

• Health | Disabled children and young people | Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities | Residential Children's Care

Recommendations from a review of residential provision for...

Legal Update: Care – A protected characteristic?

• Social Care | Children's Services | Children's rights | Legal | Leaving Care | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care

Ellen Broome, managing director of CoramBAAF, explains how...

Residential Care Special Report 2023

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

A new government policy paper puts forward plans to change...

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...

Inspections Clinic: Young inspection volunteers

• Residential Children's Care | Ofsted | Youth Work | Participation

Regulators can get a better insight into young people's...

Inspections Clinic: Supported accommodation

• Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Ofsted | Residential Children's Care

Providers of supported accommodation to looked-after young...

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...

Escaping the war in Ukraine: A new life for children in care

• Social Care | Asylum | Residential and specialist care | Residential Children's Care

Children in care are among those who have faced danger and...

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...

Inspections Clinic: Children’s home challenges

• Ofsted | Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Residential Children's Care

Ofsted has published a series of research reports on 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...

Putting the Care Pledge into Practice

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

To mark the third anniversary of the Care Experienced...

Psychoanalytic and family systemic approach helps Childhood First improve young lives

• Residential Children's Care | Mental Health | Social Care | Residential and specialist care

Therapeutic provider uses an approach rooted in the...

Therapeutic Communities: Special Report

• Health | Mental health | Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Mental Health | Residential Children's Care

There has been a recent rise in interest from policymakers...

Amberleigh breaks from norm with larger care settings

• Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Residential Children's Care | Mental Health

Provider of two large group settings supports boys in care...

Residential Care: Special Report

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

Latest figures show a growth in the number of residential...

Inspections Clinic: Registering homes and managers

• Residential Children's Care | Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Ofsted

Changes by Ofsted will give residential care providers more...

Inspections Clinic: Large social care providers

• Ofsted | Residential and specialist care | Residential Children's Care

Large private companies continue to play an increasing role...

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...

Commissioning: Keeping co-production alive

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

Covid has made participation more difficult but has...

The reports and investigations set to shape direction of Care Review

• Social Care | Residential Children's Care | Leaving Care | Foster Care | Adoption | Guide To...

Experts highlight the review of residential care, social...

Trauma-informed Practice: Special Report

• Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Social Care | Mental Health | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care | Attachment & Neglect | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation | Preventing Care Proceedings | Youth Offending | Leaving Care | Adoption | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities

Adverse childhood experiences can have far-reaching negative...

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...

Making a house into a home

• Residential and specialist care | Leaving care | Residential Children's Care | Leaving Care

The National House Project works with councils to support...

Children’s home staff and agencies take restorative approach to cut offending

• Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Residential Children's Care | Youth Offending

Multi-agency scheme diverts children’s home residents in...

Adviser support helps a successful transition from care

• Residential and specialist care | Residential Children's Care

Personal advisers help children in residential care...

Residential Care: Special Report

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

As local authorities predict a surge in demand for...

Residential Care: Policy context

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

Covid-19 has presented an unprecedented set of challenges...

Sibling relationships in the care system

• Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Residential and specialist care | Children's Services | Children's rights | Families/Parenting | Legal | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care | Adoption

Children’s services and courts face serious challenges when...

Therapeutic Care: Special Report

• Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Fostering and adoption | Mental Health | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care | Adoption

With rises in children coming into care and reporting 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...

Children in care who are moved ‘out of area’

• Residential and specialist care | Children's rights | Legal | Residential Children's Care

Children placed in ‘out of area’ care long distances from...

Adverse childhood experiences: Building on the strength within

• Children's Services | Safeguarding and child protection | Mental Health | Residential Children's Care

Much work with disadvantaged young people focuses on fixing...

Inspections Clinic: Unregulated vs unregistered care

• Residential and specialist care | Inspections | Residential Children's Care | Leaving Care

There is much confusion about what constitutes unregistered...

Spotlight on children's stability

• Social Care | Residential Children's Care

What does the children commissioner's Stability Index say...

Separated children in care

• Children's rights | Asylum | Legal | Residential Children's Care

Stewart MacLachlan, senior legal & policy officer at Coram...

Debate over care boarders

• Social Care | Residential Children's Care

Two new schemes aim to encourage councils to place more...

Special Report: Residential Care

• Residential and specialist care | Residential Children's Care

Standards of residential child care have never been higher,...

Managing risk in children's homes

• Ofsted | Social Care | Inspections | Residential Children's Care

Risk management is an important element of practice in...

Forging Lifelong Links for children in care

• Social Care | Residential Children's Care

The Lifelong Links model being tested in England and...

Are children's home arrests a problem?

• Youth Justice | Residential Children's Care | Youth Offending

The Howard League for Penal Reform is concerned that...

'Sleep-in' case: the implications

• Residential and specialist care | Residential Children's Care

Legal ruling highlights need for employment conditions for...

Barriers to measuring outcomes

• Social Care | Residential Children's Care

National outcomes framework would need to overcome a series...

Special Report: Commissioning Care

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

Commissioners play a pivotal role in ensuring vulnerable...

Special Report: Residential Child Care

• Residential and specialist care | Residential Children's Care

Lauded for the essential role it plays in the lives of...

Children in care attainment tool

• Education | Special Educational Needs | Social Care | Foster Care | Residential Children's Care

How a resource analysing education progress for looked-after...

Home’s therapeutic provision helps to foster independence

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

Children’s home specialist support jointly funded by health...

Homes for young people with complex needs

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

Innovative partnership with providers in Berkshire offers...

Hull invests so children in care stay connected

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

Yorkshire council opens its own homes on “nice estates” to...

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...

St Christopher's Fellowship embeds therapeutic approaches in children's care homes

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

Long-standing charity makes therapeutic care a core part of...

Care-experience Fellowship

• Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Leaving care | Residential Children's Care

Churchill Fellowship-led partnership is seeking innovative...

Young people help shape low-energy children’s homes

• Children's Services | Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Residential Children's Care | Participation

More than five years ago work started on a £7m project to...

Liverpool on journey to sustainable children’s home sector

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

Liverpool, like many areas, has seen rising demand for, and...

Independent visitors: Volunteers help children in care

• Social Care | Residential Children's Care

Independent visitors provide vital support to children in...

Reshape the language of care

• Leadership | Residential Children's Care

Some of the language used by professionals can leave young...

Legal Update: Safeguarding children who go missing from care

• Children's rights | Legal | Residential Children's Care

Guidance outlines the importance of carrying out return home...

Inspections Clinic: Five tips for outstanding residential care

• Ofsted | Inspections | Residential Children's Care

The manager of a residential setting for children with...

SOS Children's Villages, India

• Social Care | Residential Children's Care

Research in 2011 estimated that up to 20 million children...

Folk High Schools, Sweden

• Education | Asylum | Residential Children's Care

In 2015, Sweden received 35,369 unaccompanied minors seeking...

Scheme emphasises early planning for leaving care

• Residential and specialist care | Residential Children's Care | Leaving Care

Long-term care planning starts before young people turn 16.

Centre helps traumatised children engage with learning

• Residential and specialist care | Residential Children's Care

Home provides specialist support for severely neglected and...

Provider treats young people with mental health problems

• Residential and specialist care | Mental Health | Residential Children's Care

West Midlands-based Cove Care provides step-down placements...

Protocol reduces police callouts to children's homes

• Residential and specialist care | Residential Children's Care

Protocol aims to reduce police callouts to children's homes.

Commissioning: Care placements and sufficiency

• Commissioning | Social Care | Residential Children's Care

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

How to help siblings maintain contact

• Social Care | Residential Children's Care

Experts outline five key messages for legal and social work...

A haven for children in care

• Social Care | Residential Children's Care

Safe Haven was created by charity Family Action for young...

Inspections Clinic: Inspecting stability

• Ofsted | Residential Children's Care

Ensuring looked-after children have a stable care placement,...

Rethinking care relationships

• Leadership | Residential Children's Care

New families of looked-after children may experience varying...

Residential care, Germany

• Residential Children's Care

The German economy is among the biggest in the world. The...

Mulberry Bush: Building the Burrow

• Residential and specialist care | Residential Children's Care

Residential special school Mulberry Bush is opening a new...

The Mulberry Bush School

• Education | Residential and specialist care | Residential Children's Care

Residential school that caters for troubled children has...

No Wrong Door

• Fostering and adoption | Residential and specialist care | Residential Children's Care

North Yorkshire Council creates children's home "hubs",...

Resilient Care Home Team

• Residential and specialist care | Crime prevention | Policing | Residential Children's Care

West Mercia Police team reduces criminalisation and missing...

Writing competition gives children in care a voice to express their hopes

• Social Care | Leaving care | Youth Work | Participation | Residential Children's Care

Writing competition helps looked-after children and care...

Innovation for children in care

• Residential and specialist care | Foster Care | Residential Children's Care

Amid the multitude of challenges in working with children in...

Behind the Inspection Ratings: Residential child care

• Ofsted | Residential and specialist care | Inspections | Residential Children's Care

A recent government-commissioned review emphasised the vital...

Pathways children's home

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

Pathways is a nine-place children's home in Cornwall that...

Cross-Regional Project

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

Seven-year contract between residential child care provider...

Residential Care: Practice example - RESuLT

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

Training programme helps children's home staff teams create...

Break's Moving On service

• Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Leaving Care | Residential Children's Care

Moving On is a service for young people aged 16 to 18 to...

Mulberry Bush Oxfordshire (MBOX) Teaching School

• Education | Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Social Care | Attachment & Neglect | Residential Children's Care

Works with education settings to adopt a "psychodynamic"...

The Discharge of Care Orders: A Study of England and Wales

• Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass | Foster Care | Residential Children's Care | Adoption

This study by researchers from the University of Bristol set...

Can the physical environment of residential children's homes make them feel more therapeutic? Recommendations from a rapid evidence assessment

• Health | Mental health | Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Residential Children's Care

Exploring the factors within the physical environment that...

Commissioning Care – Research evidence: Sufficiency report

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

This report provides analysis of all up-to-date local...

Parenting recovery programme tackles child trauma

• Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Health | Mental health | Mental Health | Residential Children's Care

Study assesses how children’s home provider uses...

How Wellbeing Charter is supporting residential child care workforce

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

In late 2019, the Nuffield Foundation provided some small...

Can wellbeing initiatives for professionals benefit children and young people?

• Social Care | Residential Children's Care

At St Christopher’s, a children’s charity in the UK and Isle...

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...

‘Why Wouldn’t You Have a Circle?’ An Evaluation of the Glebe House Circles Pilot

• Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Residential Children's Care | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation

This report is about a recent development at Glebe House:...

The Outcome of Institutional Youth Care Compared to Non-Institutional Youth Care for Children of Primary School Age and Early Adolescence: a Multi-Level Meta-Analysis

• Residential and specialist care | Residential Children's Care

After 48 years of involvement in residential child care,...

Social Pedagogical Perspectives on Fidelity to a Manual: Professional Principles and Dilemmas in Everyday Expertise

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

Play Therapy Insights into Everyday Social Pedagogical Practice in Residential Child Care

• Residential and specialist care | Residential Children's Care

An insight into social pedagogical practice in Denmark.

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

• Social Care | Children's Services | Foster Care | Residential Children's Care

OOC is a research charity, founded to improve outcomes for...

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

• Social Care | Residential Children's Care | Children's Services

OOC is a research charity, founded to improve outcomes for...

ICT-Supported Social Work Interventions with Youth: A Critical Review

• Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Children's Services | Health | Mental health | Mental Health | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care | Adoption

This study conducted a systematic review of information and...

Between Love and Behaviour Management: the Psychodynamic Reflective Milieu at the Mulberry Bush School

• Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Health | Mental health | Residential Children's Care

A study on the Mulberry Bush School conveys direct work and...

Risk, Resilience and Identity Construction in the Life Narratives of Young People Leaving Residential Care

• Residential and specialist care | PSHE Education | Residential Children's Care

This paper explores the experiences of transition to...

Residential Staff Responses To Adolescent Self-Harm: The Helpful And Unhelpful

• Residential and specialist care | Residential Children's Care

This paper explores the views of young people on staff...

Putting the child at the centre of inter-professional co-operation in out-of-home care

• Residential and specialist care | Residential Children's Care

This paper explores theoretical understandings of child...

Longing To Belong: Children In Residential Care And Their Experiences Of Peer Relationships At School And In The Children's Home

• Residential and specialist care | Residential Children's Care

This paper explores the meaning and experience of peer...

Reunifying abused or neglected children: Decision-making and outcomes

• Fostering and adoption | Foster Care | Residential Children's Care

This longitudinal study examines one of the most critical...

A serene setting to address harmful sexual behaviour

• Children's Services | Management | Service configuration | Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Residential Children's Care

Glebe House is a residential home providing therapeutic care...

Research Report: Financial Stability, Cost and Value for Money in Children's Residential Care

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