The National Centre for Excellence in Residential Child Care (NCERCC) isalso developing a monitoring framework during the next three months andwill set up an implementation and monitoring group, which will includerepresentatives of care homes and commissioners. The group will monitorthe implementation of the first year of the England-only contract, whichwill be used by local authorities when commissioning placements in theprivate and voluntary sectors. It will carry out a review of thecontract in September 2008.
The redraft comes after the NCERCC working group, which drafted thecontract, met earlier this month to discuss feedback on itsconsultation, which took place between February and April.
The consultation raised concerns about what would happen when contractswith individual homes needed to be terminated, as well as price andinsurance clauses, but there was positive feedback on the consistency ofthe contract, its role in promoting good quality and outcomes, thepotential for fewer fee disputes and for a reduction inadministration.
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