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Commissioning Care: Key policy developments

Ofsted’s annual report highlighted ongoing issues with insufficient availability of care places despite more children’s homes and places coming on stream in the year to March 2023. For council commissioners, the key issue is being able to find a placement that meets a child’s needs within reasonable distance – rather than finding a placement per se.

Advantages of collaboration in sector

In the two years since the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) published its children’s social care market report, a growing debate has emerged around the need for a more interventionalist approach in the sector.

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