The Centre for Excellence and Outcomes (C4EO) has employed consultancyMat-rix Knowledge Group to examine the cost-effectiveness of programmessuch as family intervention projects and therapeutic care.
The project could provide an important tool for local authorities underincreasing pressure to save costs. C4EO chief executive Christine Daviessaid: "If Matrix comes up with intelligent findings that the sector canmake good use of, I hope to say to government that this is worth someinvestment."
She stressed the results, expected in "late autumn", would seek not toproduce a definitive pecking order of cost-effectiveness, but to showservice commissioners the likelihood that certain interventions willprovide good value given different circumstances of children andfamilies.
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