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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.

Commissioning Care: Policy context

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  • Tuesday, June 21, 2022
    • | CYP Now
CYP Now’s Special Report on Commissioning Care outlines the key measures in the Care Review, hears from experts across the sector on the impact these could have on services, summarises latest influential research and highlights examples of good commissioning practice involving councils and providers.

Reimagining the children's care procurement system

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  • Tuesday, May 25, 2021
    • | CYP Now
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.

Virtual commissioning

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  • Tuesday, January 5, 2021
    • | CYP Now
Virtual commissioning is here to stay, and when done well there are benefits for commissioners and children, says Toni Badnall.

Shared Services: Policy context

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  • Thursday, January 2, 2020
    • | CYP Now
Defining what shared services are is vital to understand the approaches that work best in services for children and young people and whether there is scope for this to grow.

Evidence and Impact: Policy context

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  • Tuesday, November 26, 2019
    • | CYP Now
Despite the political parties pledging billions of pounds of additional investment in public services during the election campaign – and assurances from ministers in the previous government that the era of austerity is over – the need for projects and organisations working with vulnerable children, young people and families to demonstrate their interventions are an efficient and effective use of resources has never been greater.

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.

Focus on market risks losing sight of the child

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  • Monday, September 28, 2015
    • | CYP Now
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).

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