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Special Report: Commissioning Care

Commissioners play a pivotal role in ensuring vulnerable children receive the care they need. However, demand and funding pressures are driving the development of new systems and changes in practice.

Special Report: Residential Child Care

    Features
  • Wednesday, June 28, 2017
  • | CYP Now
Lauded for the essential role it plays in the lives of vulnerable young people, the residential child care sector faces increasing financial challenges if it is to continue to deliver quality therapeutic provision.

Around the corner

    Features
  • Tuesday, October 25, 2016
  • | CYP Now
Young people in residential care will soon have the right to 'stay close' to their placement when they leave, helping smooth the transition to adulthood. Joe Lepper investigates how this is likely to work.

In a good place

    Features
  • Tuesday, October 25, 2016
  • | CYP Now
As the number of children in care reaches record levels, Joe Lepper examines the challenge for commissioners to provide children with stable, happy homes that cater to their needs.

Feeling at home

    Features
  • Tuesday, October 25, 2016
  • | CYP Now
The Narey review argues that the prevailing view of children's residential care as an 'anachronism' significantly underestimates its contribution. Joe Lepper asks how these views can be overturned.

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