The rapidly changing market for children's services throws up a range of challenges for everyone involved with the sector, according to a government-commissioned report.
Scoping the market for children's services sets out to investigate the state of the market now that children's services are provided by a range of public-sector bodies, private providers and organisations from the voluntary and community sector. But the study, carried out by PricewaterhouseCoopers for the Department for Education and Skills (DfES), fails to provide a complete description of current and potential markets because "insufficient data is available".
What it does provide is a number of messages for stakeholders to take on board in this changing environment.
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