Regional care commissioning test beds selected

The government has selected two groups of councils to test the commissioning and delivery of looked-after children’s placements at a regional level.
Greater Manchester and the South East have been chosen as pathfinders for so-called regional care co-operatives (RCCs), under which individual councils pool their resources and plan placements centrally.
RCCs were proposed by the previous Conservative government – based on a recommendation from the Independent Review of Children’s