
The study, which was commissioned by children's minister Edward Timpson in March 2014 to assess the potential for developing the "capacity and diversity" of children's social care provision, states that there is a "clear appetite" among potential service suppliers to take on "the more high-risk areas of service".
It suggests that the government could follow overseas examples and regulate to require certain services to be outsourced to a third party outside of state government. However, the Department for Education has distanced itself from some of the findings.
The report states: "This could commence with the outsourcing of those services where there is already an established market, such as fostering placements, residential placements and adoption services, extending into other areas of provision."
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