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Commissioning: Five solutions for services in 2025

3 mins read Children's Services
The National Adults and Children’s Services conference (NCAS) brought together leaders and providers from children’s and adults’ services – yet these groups – as ever, largely – operated in parallel, with separate agendas and sessions.

This feels like a missed opportunity. Imagine the potential if we dedicated more time to collaboratively exploring how services can be better integrated to address shared commissioning challenges around needs, costs, and outcomes. Children are cared for by adults. Services should be better placed to enable adults to meet the needs of their own children, with minimal intervention by children’s social care services that are increasingly expected to do more but with less resources.

The issues facing children and young people remain stubbornly persistent – and, in many respects, have deteriorated in the past year. We heard throughout the plenary and workshop sessions how we are now paying more for placements that deliver poorer outcomes. During their excellent interactive session, care leavers shared powerful testimonies about what they want and need but are still not receiving consistent and systematic support.

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