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Hertfordshire County Council is using an innovative approach to enhance the commissioning of children's services to better meet the needs of its looked-after children.
The local authority is one of five areas across the UK to embed the Valuing Care programme, developed by independent consultancy Impower, in its social work teams.
The programme complements existing assessment tools to produce a needs and outcomes profile for both individual looked-after children as well as the entire population of young people under a local authority's care.
The decision to use Valuing Care came soon after Hertfordshire began rolling out its new care outcomes framework, says Marion Ingram, the council's operations director for specialist services.
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