The short survey covers a range of key issues facing residential child care including meeting children’s increasingly complex needs, changes to commissioning arrangements, the rising cost of placements and moves to boost the number of local authority-run settings.
The survey also asks whether proposals in the government’s recent strategy paper Keeping Families Safe, Helping Children Thrive to curtail profiteering by some private providers will be effective.
Derren Hayes, editor of CYP Now, said: “This is a crucial time for children’s residential care with key reforms to the sector being planned, tested and introduced this year and we want this survey to offer insight into the sector’s views on these.
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