Entries by Andrew Rome

New insights into prices paid by local authorities for children’s homes places

The National Centre for Excellence in Residential Child Care (NCERCC) and Revolution Consulting have published a report providing new insight and reference for anyone involved in children’s social care. https://www.revolution-consulting.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/FoI-price-report-final-16-Feb-2020-1.pdf This third report, continuing the research carried out over a six-year period into prices paid by local authorities for independent sector children’s homes places , […]

February 17, 2020 by

Solving Social Care Funding Crisis

012_CYP_260219 Analysis EF This is a link to a pdf of an article in March 2019 Children and Young People Now Magazine. It contains ten “common sense” commercial ideas for local authority commissioners and strategists as to how to go about addressing the funding crisis.  

April 4, 2019 by

Vulnerable children failed by poor journalism.

Less than three weeks ago the Sun missed an opportunity to dig into the real causes of the crisis in funding for services for children in care, opting instead for sensationalist headlines while using poor evidence. Today the Guardian similarly produced an article that fails our most vulnerable children because it fails to understand the […]

November 10, 2018 by

Time to stop the division

As lobbying hits full speed ahead of the next budget, including an open letter to Downing Street this week from 120 children’s charities and others we unfortunately also saw a wholly unhelpful article about fostering in the Sun. Misinformed, using discredited figures, and unhelpful, nay damaging, to the very children and families it seeks to […]

October 25, 2018 by