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Funding Focus: Chances for Children, Buttle UK

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  • Saturday, June 1, 2024
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Buttle UK’s Chances for Children grants support vulnerable children and young people who have experienced a recent crisis or change in life that has had a significant impact on their wellbeing and their education.

Creating a therapeutic ecology in commissioning

Residential care provides support and intervention to our most complex and vulnerable young people, and yet it had little mention in the government’s Care Review response policy paper Stable Homes Built on Love.

Key Data: Sufficiency and cost of care places

On 31 March 23, there were 3,119 children’s homes of all types registered to provide 13,528 places. This represents a 9% rise in homes and 5% rise in places compared to the year before, according to DfE data.

Leadership: Updating your strategy

Barnardo’s has recognised the time is right to update its strategy and branding to keep up with the changes to children’s lives in recent years and ensure it resonates with service users and supporters.

Commissioning Care: Key policy developments

Ofsted’s annual report highlighted ongoing issues with insufficient availability of care places despite more children’s homes and places coming on stream in the year to March 2023. For council commissioners, the key issue is being able to find a placement that meets a child’s needs within reasonable distance – rather than finding a placement per se.

Advantages of collaboration in sector

In the two years since the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) published its children’s social care market report, a growing debate has emerged around the need for a more interventionalist approach in the sector.

Special Report: Commissioning Care

A shortage of provision and a rise in vulnerable children has made social care placements harder to find and more expensive for councils and led to policymakers developing plans for regional commissioning.

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