The online poll on the state of the children’s residential care sector found that just 22% of respondents said they were “confident” or “very confident” that reforms to placement commissioning and the curbing of providers’ profits would provide better-quality places at lower cost to local authorities by 2030.
By comparison, 35% of survey respondents said they were “unconfident” or “very unconfident” in the prospects for the reforms, while a further 43% were “unsure”.
The survey, conducted throughout February in partnership with Hexagon Care Services, sought views on the creation of regional care co-operatives (RCCs) to commission placements across a wider area, and government plans in the Schools and Children’s Wellbeing Bill to tackle profiteering in the sector.
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