How Valuing Care Supports Our Customers
Valuing Care combines flexible tools with hands-on support, allowing our work to be shaped around local requirements rather than a fixed model
1. Understand your objectives
Gather context on placement costs, commissioning priorities and key objectives
2. Gather/validate data
Collect and quality-assure placement and provider cost data to create a reliable evidence base.
3. Model & evidence
Run cost models on the data to understand patterns and present evidence-based decisions
4. Support decisions
Advise and support defensible decisions providing clear outputs and audit ready documentation
Areas we Cover
NHS commissioning services
Providing defensible cost frameworks for residential placements, Section 117 joint-funded packages and NHS Continuing Healthcare
Children services
Residential care, fostering, supported accommodation, SEN residential schools and complex joint-funded arrangements
Older people services
High-cost residential, nursing and complex home care packages,
Working age adults (WAA)
Complex, high-cost, and bespoke packages across Learning Disability, Mental Health and Physical Disability
Who uses our work
Strategic leaders
DASSs, Directors of Operations, and senior executives seeking defensible approaches to commissioning decisions.
Commissioners
Commissioning managers and leads responsible for provider relationships, market management, and procurement.
Finance professionals
Finance directors and leads who need robust cost analysis and budget-setting evidence.
Transformation teams
Change and transformation leads driving efficiency and improvement programmes.
Operational managers
Managers making day-to-day placement and funding decisions within established frameworks.
Legal and governance
Teams requiring defensible documentation and audit-ready decision trails.
Independence Matters
Valuing Care is independent of care providers, trade associations, and other lobby groups. Our only client is the only organisation we’re working with.
This independence is fundamental to producing independent analysis that can be trusted by all stakeholders—and that can withstand challenge from parties with different perspectives.
Without valuing care
Benchmark averages
Reactive responses
Limited audit trail
Budget pressure without evidence
With valuing care
Evidence – led fee setting
Audit ready documentation
Governance assurance
Confidence in negotiations