Over recent years, the debate around children’s social care in England has been loud—but what if the most meaningful change is happening quietly, region by region? A New Kind of Collaboration Regional Care Cooperatives (RCCs) are starting to reshape how care is planned, commissioned, and delivered across local areas. Early signs are emerging—and some are […]
The first two workshops in March 2024 were oversubscribed. Individual authorities and regional groups are taking the model forward. We undertook to those unable to secure a place at the first two workshops to run an additional event. This is scheduled for 9th April, 10:30-11:30. Please contact us to secure a place: contact@revolution-consulting.org […]
New local partnership agreements are needed between purchasing authorities and independent providers. Many local authorities find capacity in local independent provision to be unavailable, often due to places being in use by other local authorities from further afield. Frameworks and Dynamic Purchasing Systems do not offer incentive to local providers to grant preferred access to […]
Alt Profit Making and Risk in Independent Children’s Social Care Placement Providers final 2023 There are solutions. On the face of it our latest study of the financial reporting of the larger children’s social care providers seems to indicate that, despite the plethora of studies and reviews and recommendations in recent years, the provider sector […]
For several years Revolution Consulting has been studying the published financial statements of the largest providers of children’s social care services in the UK, with results published by the Local Government Association and others. We’ve recently been revisiting all of the new information filed at Companies House since the Competition and Markets Authority reported on […]
Today sees the release of the 9th “State of the sector” report by the Children’s Homes Association. The results are based on a comprehensive annual survey of the association’s membership, a large majority of which are small organisations, often operating only one or two homes. The smaller providers make up a significant majority of the […]
Today sees the publication of our State-of-the-sector market study of children’s homes, commissioned by ICHA. ICHA May 2022 final This comprehensive study enhances the information available to policy makers as they consider the many recommendations arising from the CMA and the Independent Care Review, both of which placed primary importance on the perspective gained from […]
Profit Making and Risk in Independent Children’s Social Care Placement Providers FINAL 2022 Our latest update for the Local Government Association confirms the growth in size and profitability of the largest children’s services providers. The CMA have recommended actions to address the imbalance they described in the sector, but in our view these do not […]
In this month’s CYPNow – a discussion of the remedies proposed by the CMA’s interim report. https://www.revolution-consulting.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/CYP_Commissioning_Dec21-CH.pdf More than 9 months into the Independent Review, the CMA are clearly signalling that they will be handing a set of recommendations for improvement in local authority market engagement early in 2022. Anyone who has been around the […]
The CMA published its interim report from the UK-wide Children’s social care market study last week. Readers of over 80 pages in the report and 60 pages of appendices are invited to comment on it all by 12 November. I for one welcome a couple of weeks to properly absorb the report, but my first […]