The Care Review has “failed to fully understand" the role of independent reviewing officers (IROs), critics opposed to its recommendation to scrap the position have said.
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Fostering leaders have questioned the competition watchdog’s call for government action to help councils recruit more foster carers, and reduce use of IFAs.
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Competition watchdog mulling probe into children’s social care market
Following call from children s social care review chair Josh MacAlister to investigate market for children in care placements, Competition and Markets Authority says it is considering doing so
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Story updated 28 January 2021
The UK’s competition watchdog says it is considering investigating the children’s social care market after the recently-appointed chair of the care review wrote to it urging it to do so.
Frontline chief executive Josh MacAlister – appointed by government this month to head an independent review into children’s social care – revealed on Twitter yesterday that he had written to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), calling on it to carry out a study into the social care market.