Children services
Valuing Care supports Local Authorities to make defensible, transparent and evidence-led funding decisions across children’s residential and supported accommodation placements.
We operate where cost escalation, provider challenge, and legal risk intersect — providing robust analysis to support case-level and strategic commissioning decisions.
How Valuing Care Supports children services
1. Case-Level Cost Analysis
Individual placement price assessment
Review of fee build-ups and staffing ratios
Challenge of unsupported cost elements
Benchmarking against validated cost structures
Clear documentation to support funding panels
2. Provider Uplift and Negotiation Support
Structured response to provider fee increase requests
Independent evidence to support negotiation
Consistent methodology across placements
Risk-balanced recommendations aligned to budget realities
3.High-Cost Placement Review
Identification of outlier placements
Review of legacy fee arrangements
Transparent audit trail of decision rationale
Support for re-negotiation or re-commissioning
4.Strategic Market Insight
Understanding cost drivers in residential children’s care
Scenario modelling for inflation and wage pressures
Identification of sustainability risks
Evidence to inform sufficiency strategies
What Makes Our Approach Different
Case-level defensibility
Every recommendation is supported by documented cost evidence.
Built around local markets
Every authority has different geography, provider mix and workforce realities.
Platform + advisory support
Our Purchaser software enables case-level modelling, while our specialist team provides hands-on commissioning advice.
Governance-ready outputs
Clear documentation to support Scrutiny, Audit and Member decisions.