Private provider Tribal was awarded a contract to manage improvement support for children’s homes under the last government in March, resulting in the National Centre for Excellence in Residential Child Care (NCERCC) at the National Children’s Bureau (NCB) losing its funding.
But last week, the coalition government announced that the Tribal contract has been dropped. "Instead of reinvesting in an external contract, ministers have decided that the most effective and cost-effective way of achieving this change is to work in partnership with the sector," a spokeswoman for the Department for Education said. She added that savings made from the scrapping of the Tribal contract will be utilised in this process.
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