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Trends in care commissioning

    Features
  • Tuesday, November 28, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Andrew Rome, director of Revolution Consulting, which conducted a financial analysis of the largest children’s social care providers, assesses the implications for commissioners of council care services.

Commissioning Children’s Social Care: Key policy developments

    Other
  • 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.

Commissioning Care – Research evidence: Sufficiency report

This report provides analysis of all up-to-date local authority sufficiency strategies with a focus on identifying the main perceived challenges for councils to meet their sufficiency duty, what actions are being undertaken or planned to improve commissioning outcomes, and perceived negative consequences associated with using certain commissioning or market shaping approaches.

Commissioning Care: Special Report

Recommendations in the Care Review aim to improve co-ordination and management in the care market while driving down costs for councils, but some believe the proposals do not go far enough.

Putting the Care Pledge into Practice

    Features
  • Wednesday, April 27, 2022
    • | CYP Now
To mark the third anniversary of the Care Experienced Conference, which led to the creation of a care pledge, those involved reflect on how the key messages have influenced policy and practice.

Profit Making and Risk in Independent Children’s Social Care Placement Providers

Local authorities in England spend more than £2bn a year buying fostering and children's homes services alone from private and voluntary sector organisations (collectively referred to as the independent sector). Local authorities themselves continue to provide most foster placements, but around two in every five foster placements are made with independent sector providers. In children's homes the reverse is true. Here, three in every four placements are made in the independent sector.

Children's Care Commissioning Special Report

Commissioners of children's services are key to ensuring vulnerable young people get the right placements. CYP Now's special report looks at the latest developments, academic research and examples of best practice.

Trauma-informed Practice: Special Report

    Features
  • Tuesday, February 23, 2021
    • | CYP Now
Adverse childhood experiences can have far-reaching negative consequences on people’s lives, but there are growing efforts to implement trauma-informed practices in services to improve long-term outcomes.

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