CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Using data to make better decisions for our children

Dominic Luscombe and Debbie Barnes look at how an approach to capturing and tracking children’s needs over time, while connecting it with the cost of their care, has worked in five councils.

This year the Government published Stable Homes, Built on Love, its long-awaited strategy for children's services reform.

The direction of travel of the strategy has been largely welcomed within local government, but with the caveat that without the requisite investment the likelihood of these proposals being realised in full is limited.

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