Lessons for commissioners from Carillion

The report contains no reference to children's services, but it is vitally important for the sector and raises huge questions about how the whole "business" of competitive tendering for public service contracts is approached. Here are three critical findings children's services leaders and commissioners should learn from. First, the committee raises "grave concern" at "the government's preoccupation with price" - which it says is too often the primary rationale for contracting. This, they say,...