Kathy Evans
Forced co-operation?
Kathy Evans questions the merit of proposals to create regional care cooperatives in the wake of the care review and the Competition and Markets Authority’s study of the marketplace for children’s care provision.
Probing the case for change
The Independent Review of Children’s Social Care must name the causes of today’s child welfare inequalities if it is to hit the mark or it will risk repeating history rather than changing it, argues Kathy Evans.
Can the CMA make us see our market folly?
Kathy Evans outlines why the CMA’s investigation into the private provision of placements for looked-after children may ‘bring decisive insight to our care market folly’.