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The art of commissioning

In the first of a series of articles, commissioner Richard Selwyn outlines the key principles of good children's services commissioning.

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.

Councils pilot payment-by-results

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  • Friday, April 1, 2011
    • | CYP Now
A groundbreaking six-month pilot project is under way with three large local authorities to assess how payment-by-results models can be successfully adopted in children's services.

Commissioning Children's Services: Policy context

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  • Monday, May 27, 2019
    • | CYP Now
In 2017/18, councils spent £8.844bn on children's services compared with £8.476bn in 2016/17 - a rise of 4.3 per cent, according to statistics from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.

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