State of Social Care, the commission's annual stock take of social care,was due to be published as Children Now went to press.
The report says that, like last year, how local authorities commissionservices for children and young people remains "insufficientlydeveloped".
It reveals that although standards in children's homes are risingyear-on-year there are still significant areas of underperformance.
More than 30 per cent of children's homes did not meet the nationalminimum standard for vetting staff and visitors in 2006.
- See Analysis, p16.
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