Costs have been examined for both units of children's social careservices and whole social care processes. Many approaches have beentaken, and anyone wishing to draw specific conclusions is encouraged toseek out the full details of the relevant study.
One of the overarching conclusions, however, is that decisions on publicspending are being made with poor evidence. In fact, the quality ofinformation available to researchers was often poor. This wasparticularly the case when accessing case file information, and one ofthe authors' first suggestions is that action is taken to improve thisevidence base.
This resonates with the PricewaterhouseCoopers report on children'shomes and fostering, which was put together for the Department forEducation and Skills last October. That report also suggested therecould be merit in looking at whether more refined means of assessmentwould enable us to track the correlation between variables andoutcomes.
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