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Sector split over Care Review proposals

Recommendations put forward in the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care have split the sector with some hailing chair Josh MacAlister’s plan for “radical reform” as “ambitious and exciting” while others have branded elements as “dangerous”.

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Children's social care generates excessive profits - report

The competition watchdog calls the market for children's home and foster care places "dysfunctional".

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National and regional oversight of 'dysfunctional' children's social care market needed, watchdog finds

National and regional bodies should be set up to oversee the “dysfunctional” children’s social care market and help councils to commission appropriate placements for vulnerable children, the Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA) has said.

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Some firms 'profiteering' from children's homes, says minister

Children’s homes are profiteering from an already “broken” market in which demand far exceeds supply, the children’s minister has warned.

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Ofsted to inspect and register unregulated accommodation providers for 16–17-year-olds in care

Ofsted to inspect and register unregulated accommodation providers for 16–17-year-olds in care
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How Wellbeing Charter is supporting residential child care workforce

In late 2019, the Nuffield Foundation provided some small seed funding to develop a Wellbeing Charter for staff in residential children’s homes, with a particular focus upon the frontline workforce.

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Children's home leaders urge government to tackle workforce crisis

Residential care leaders are calling on ministers to tackle a workforce crisis limiting the availability of children's social care placements.

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Ofsted calls for power to scrutinise children's home groups

Ofsted calls for power to scrutinise children's home groups
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Ofsted to let providers register multi-building children's homes to tackle capacity pressures

Ofsted will allow providers to register multi-building children's homes in order to ease capacity pressures in the sector.

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The children's care market must change

The children's care market must change
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