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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.

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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