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  • New models of meeting priority needs

    In exploring new ways of meeting the priority needs of our communities we will encourage models, such as co-operatives and mutuals, which give greater influence and voice to staff and users. in designing and commissioning public services and in determining the use of public resources.

Across Greater Manchester nearly 2000 children are brought into care each year. The region is dominated by expensive, profit-led private care companies (with a market share of approximately 75%). Many of these organisations are private-equity owned, making extortionate profits (averaging 22.6% from 2016-2020, CMA, 2022), often failing to meet the quality standards these children deserve and regularly placing them far beyond the communities they were born into.

At Social AdVentures we’ve a strong track record of delivering high quality services for young people, including early years’ childcare, alternative models of education and family-focused public health services. We could see a future where local children, live in local homes run by local not-for-profit providers like, for us moving into children’s social care felt a natural and valuable fit.

In 2023 we were involved in a significant piece of research in Greater Manchester. Working with the Combined Authority to dig deeper.  Working with other third sector organisations including Big Life Group, Together Trust and Action for Children we setup the Fair Care Alliance. Together, we set out to improve the number of local, quality residential placements focused on staff ownership, team engagement and specialist partnerships across the local VCSE sector.

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