Children s sector leaders urge greater scrutiny of social care providers Derren Hayes Monday, May 24, 2021
Local authority and children’s services leaders have called for greater scrutiny of private sector children’s social care providers in a bid to minimise the risks posed by a large operator collapsing.
The Competition and Markets Authority is studying the children s social care market
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Long-term funding that meets our ambitions for children and young people will also be required, writes the president of the Association of Directors of
End profiteering from foster care, campaigners urge Joe Lepper Thursday, May 13, 2021
Children’s charities have stepped up their campaign to call for an end to private care companies profiteering from fostering.
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Vulnerable children ‘falling through net’ as services restricted to statutory minimum
Vulnerable groups are suffering a “significant and dangerous loss of visibility” because their needs do not meet the increasingly tight criteria of councils’ statutory functions, a parliamentary heard has heard.
The House of Lords public services committee was yesterday told how referrals to a council safeguarding board about girls who had been sexually exploited were not picked up because the council could no longer afford to commission those services.
The committee’s chair Baroness Hilary Armstrong, who has been working with the organisation that made the referrals, said the unnamed council – “which is a good local authority” – does not commission in this area “because they can t afford to, because they re busy using their statutory money on all their things where they have no option but to be involved”.