Client:  Department for Education  Date:  April 2024 – April 2025 Challenges faced by the client: Local Authorities bear a statutory responsibility to ensure there is sufficient and suitable accommodation for looked-after children. Local authorities commission services within a market that, despite its necessity, faces significant and well-documented challenges. Recent influential reviews, such as the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care and the Competition and Market

In this article, Andrew Laird argues that each level of government should have to justify why they aren’t passing power down to the next. It's a deliberately provocative title... of course it's not true for everything. But I'd love it if we started with that. I think it’s probably fair to say that every level of government over estimates its own importance and ability to effect positive change. There is a cultural reluctance to pass power, resources and responsibility to the

Across the UK, adult social care is in crisis. This episode of the Radical Reformers podcast brings you a rare social care success story. Rachel Law and Gemma Murphy are two of the all-female leadership team at PossAbilities , an adult social care social enterprise based in the Northwest of England. With a team of 800 operating across multiple council areas, PossAbilities is bucking the trend. Rachel, Gemma and the team not only deliver outstanding services but consistentl