Commissioners of children's social care services have one of the hardest jobs in local government. They are key players in the difficult and constantly shifting relationship between needs, resources and services, and their role is to try to triangulate that so that vulnerable children get high-quality care at a cost the council can afford and at fees independent providers can deliver it at.
Strategies for delivering this are encapsulated in three-year sufficiency plans produced by councils. These set out the long-term trends in the number of children in care locally, where those children are living and what the council is doing to source sufficient placements in the short to medium term. In an era of rising numbers of children coming into care, dwindling resources and a shortage of available placements, sufficiency plans also enable councils to set out how they intend to deliver policies to stimulate the provider market and generate more places.
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