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Commissioning Children’s Social Care: Key policy developments

Tuesday, May 30, 2023

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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.

Virtual commissioning

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

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Virtual commissioning is here to stay, and when done well there are benefits for commissioners and children, says Toni Badnall.

Collaboration, creativity and more cuts: 2016 in children's services

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

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CYP Now has collected the views of children's services experts from a range of backgrounds to hear what they think the key challenges and opportunities will be in 2016 across services for children, young people and families.

Payment-by-results could drive out smaller charities, say leaders

Monday, July 5, 2010

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Government plans to introduce payment-by-results for providers of children and young people's services could jeopardise early intervention work and drive small charities out of business, sector leaders have warned.

Commissioning aid is terminated despite saving councils millions

Monday, February 21, 2011

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Significant variations in the expertise of commissioning staff fuel doubts over councils' ability to maintain efficiency savings as the government's Commissioning Support Programme draws to a close.

Access dispute masks challenge to deliver better primary care

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

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The goverment wants to get general practice on board to tackle overused hospitals.

Daily roundup: Free school meals, policing and council cuts

Thursday, March 6, 2014

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Small schools to get funding to deliver free school meals; taser use rises fivefold in five years; and Islington children's services hit with £4m cut, all in the news today.

Ask the Expert: Multi-agency partnerships

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

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Director and lead member guidance boosts local accountability

Monday, April 16, 2012

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Government's revised statutory guidance on the role of directors of children's services and lead members is already having an impact across the country. Sector leaders express their opinions on the changes

Managing the costs of care

Monday, May 14, 2012

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Local authorities are increasingly joining forces to commission services for looked-after children. Jo Stephenson asks whether cutting costs will compromise the quality of care

Zika threat highlights need for public health investment

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

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In the first half of the 20th Century, polio became feared across the world.

Cameron speech reignites debate over children's services 'market'

Monday, September 28, 2015

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The Prime Minister highlighted children's social care as ripe for reform in a speech this month, with failing services handed to trusts or other providers to run. Children's services experts give their views on what this means for the years ahead

Focus on market risks losing sight of the child

Monday, September 28, 2015

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There has been the scent of revolution in the air recently. First, Jeremy Corbyn won a landslide Labour leadership election on an anti-austerity ticket that was the antithesis of New Labour (Analysis, p10). Then the man he hopes to one day replace in Downing Street, David Cameron, used a speech on the "smarter state" to outline the government's intention to pick up the pace of reform in children's services by handing "failing" children's social care services to third-party providers (Analysis, p8).

Children in Care: Policy and Practice

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

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Special supplement on the latest innovation and implementation of policy reforms to enable children in care to lead healthy, happy lives.

Anger at more prison places

Monday, July 19, 2010

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Justice chiefs are facing criticism after a document revealed plans to commission additional prison places for young offenders, despite falling custody levels.

Children's care homes urged to innovate

Monday, January 10, 2011

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Residential care sector must work more closely with families and take advantage of new legislation such as the Localism Bill, experts say.

Daily roundup: Policing, teachers and youth crime

Thursday, April 18, 2013

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Nottinghamshire will not get a youth police commissioner; Michael Gove wants teachers to do more admin, and a briefing highlights adult social services' youth justice role, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: School canteens, television fears, and consultant costs

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

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Revised school buildings guidance omits kitchens, no television for under-threes, and a row over £800-a-day consultant, all in the news roundup today.

Daily roundup: Early intervention funding, UK Youth Parliament, and the age of criminal responsibility in Northern Ireland

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

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The Local Government Association calls on government to rethink plan to "top-slice" early intervention cash, 250,000 young people vote in a UKYP consultation, and the Northern Irish justice minister advocates increasing the age of criminal responsibility, all in the news today.

Election 2015 Party Policy Guide: Public spending

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

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Reimagining the children's care procurement system

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

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Solicitor and local government procurement specialist Léonie Cowen outlines why the way councils commission and purchase children's care services is broken and identifies what authorities can do now.

Foundations to spur youth services

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

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Camden is latest to create a charitable foundation in a bid to increase capacity in voluntary youth provision.

Spending Review should usher in consolidation on many fronts

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

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So now we know for certain about the money.

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