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Children’s Services: Target Demand Redesign

We help councils to design more effective early intervention and prevention models within children's services, managing demand and building family resilience.

We are failing our Looked After Children

We are failing our Looked After Children

To support the launch of our new programme Valuing Care, we have written an article setting out our thoughts around…

by James Edmondson - August 29, 2017

Children’s placements can be nine times more costly than Eton – but what are the outcomes?

Children’s placements can be nine times more costly than…

We pay more for many of our looked after children’s placements than it costs to go to Eton – why…

by Leo Jones - May 11, 2017

Tackling demand in children’s services

Tackling demand in children’s services

We know we must change, we can see it is possible, now to work out how. We recently co-authored an…

by Ebony Hughes - March 28, 2017

Regional adoption agencies – necessity can be the mother of invention

Regional adoption agencies – necessity can be the mother…

In mulling over the quandaries facing our clients on regional adoption agencies (RAAs) I was considering how to clarify some…

by Alastair Thompson - March 3, 2017

REPORTS & PUBLICATIONS

Shining a Light: Inaugural Children’s Services Essay Collection

Shining a Light: Inaugural Children’s Services Essay…

Individually and collectively, they set out some clear views and raise some fascinating questions

by Olly Swann - February 14, 2017

Working with Tees Valley to develop rigorous and realistic plans for the Regional Adoption Agency

Working with Tees Valley to develop rigorous and realistic…

by IMPOWER - October 28, 2016

Family Values: Transforming fostering in Derbyshire

Family Values: Transforming fostering in Derbyshire

by IMPOWER - May 25, 2016

REPORTS & PUBLICATIONS

Getting a Grip

Getting a Grip

A Resource Allocation System for child placements

by Olly Swann - May 19, 2016

Supporting London Borough of Barnet develop the best delivery model for their education support services

Supporting London Borough of Barnet develop the best…

by IMPOWER - May 4, 2016

Co-designing a new operating model for early intervention and prevention

Co-designing a new operating model for early intervention…

by IMPOWER - March 15, 2016

REPORTS & PUBLICATIONS

Discussion series: Early Help Learning Sets

Discussion series: Early Help Learning Sets

In September 2014 IMPOWER and a select group of invited councils met for our first Early Help Learning Set.

by David Colbear - January 12, 2016

REPORTS & PUBLICATIONS

New Models in Fostering

New Models in Fostering

IMPOWER recently conducted a survey of senior officers on the subject of alternative delivery models in children’s services.

by Alastair Thompson - October 19, 2015

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