Valuing Care Children Services Project Support for Northamptonshire Children's Trust

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North Northamptonshire Council awarded a contract to Impower Consultancy Ltd for the Valuing Care Children Services Project, valued at AUD 750,000.

The project aimed to deliver activity and principles for continued support, with a focus on sustainability and embedding the Valuing Care approach within practice, process, and commissioning.

The supplier provided support to realise the full benefits of the Valuing Care approach and to embed it systemically through children's services.

This included helping establish conditions and foundations for the Trust to sustain the approaches without external support.

Specific objectives were to embed Valuing Care in practice, process, and commissioning to ensure care and support matched the needs of children and young people and that they were supported to live in suitable homes; embed processes for systemic identification of children and young people who could benefit from targeted intervention on an ongoing basis; establish a process for collating Valuing Care data at a system level to inform and strengthen strategic decision making on commissioning and sufficiency; and strengthen sufficiency within foster care to enable opportunities for step down from residential care, addressing the 18 children and young people in residential care identified as benefiting from family homes but with no fostering placements immediately available.