YES - NEIL BENTLEY, DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SERVICES, CBI
High-quality, reliable and responsive children's services help giveyoung people the best start in life. To achieve the Every Child Mattersoutcomes, the skills of all sectors must be harnessed throughcompetition and a mixed market. This allows different providers to forminnovative partnerships and show their commitment to quality care. Amixed market can challenge existing provision, develop better controlover the quality and consistency of services and focus on value formoney.
NO - DEBRA ALLCOCK TYLER, CHIEF EXECUTIVE, DIRECTORY OF SOCIALCHANGE
A major problem with a mixed market is its almost inevitable drifttowards a contract culture. In contracting, your job is to satisfy theterms of your contract and the client is the contracting party. When weengage in that contracting relationship it shifts our view of ourclient.
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