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Commissioning Children’s Social Care: Key policy developments

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  • Tuesday, May 30, 2023
  • | CYP Now
Faced with a 25 per cent rise in children in care over the past decade and funding levels that have failed to keep pace with this demand, some local authorities have struggled to ensure there are enough placements in their local area to meet the number and needs of children.

Technology in Children's Services: Policy context

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  • Tuesday, March 31, 2020
  • | CYP Now
At its best, technology speeds up laborious inputting of information, enabling children’s services practitioners to spend more time with their clients, helps commissioners to identify trends so they can prioritise resources, and enable leaders to make informed choices on how services are structured.

The state of care

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  • Tuesday, June 10, 2014
  • | CYP Now
After years of rapid growth, England's children-in-care population is beginning to stabilise. Joe Lepper examines the latest trends and best practice in commissioning quality placements for children and young people.