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The Commissioning Alliance offers its local authority members an innovative approach to commissioning residential and foster care placements.
The consortium, which grew out of the long-standing West London Alliance, has a membership made up of 14 London councils and Buckinghamshire County Council.
One of its aims is to help local authorities to keep a handle on the issues of placement cost, sufficiency and quality in the children’s social care market.
According to recent research on behalf of the Local Government Association, nearly three in four children’s home and almost a third of fostering places are provided by private organisations.
As such, the alliance recognises the difficulties faced by local authorities in using a complex national market of care providers and offers membership as a way to help them navigate the process more effectively.
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