Ensuring there are sufficient high-quality placements to meet the ever-changing needs of vulnerable children and young people is one of the key roles of a children’s services commissioner.
There are three key elements to the task: understanding the needs of looked-after children, understanding what provision is available and where there are gaps, and developing a service specification for the care placement. Once these fundamentals have been achieved, commissioners can assess what care settings are best placed to deliver services.
What sounds a straightforward process becomes anything but once demographic, social, political and financial pressures are factored in. Finding a solution that fulfils all of these demands while meeting the needs of children is a challenge for every local authority commissioner.
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