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Driving Smarter Solutions: Insights from Peopletoo’s Home to School Transport Analysis 

Home to School Transport is one of the most pressing challenges facing local government today. Services are under immense pressure due to rising demand and inflationary increases, with national spending soaring by half a billion pounds over the past four years.  
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Are We Ready for School Readiness?

Developing independence, curiosity, and communication skills are fundamental to engender readiness for starting school, as well as navigating the challenges and complexities involved in support a child to grow.
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One Society – Rethinking our Approach to SEND and DSG Challenges

Recent estimates of deficits in councils’ DSG budgets suggest that the challenges faced by SEND services in balancing their books are becoming increasingly difficult. It is now not unusual to see projected deficits, based on a trend analysis if a council were to “do nothing”, reaching over £200 million by 2029/30.
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Children’s Commissioning – it’s time to commit

Commissioning: understand, plan, do, review. It sounds simple – understand need, plan what to do to meet the needs, execute the plan and then make sure its working. What could go wrong?
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Insights from the Latest CQC Assurance Visits: Key Learnings and Future Directions for Local Authorities

Following the original pilot assessments with 5 authorities, CQC have assessed 3 further authorities under the new framework, recently publishing reports for Hertfordshire, London Borough of Hounslow and West Berkshire.
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‘Hard to Reach’ Groups & Partnership Working

The national policy landscape is in flux: the introduction of Family Hubs, the SEND and AP Improvement Plan, and the new children’s social care strategy, Stable Homes, Built on Love, all demand a shift in approach towards even greater family-focused working.
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Whole-system solutions to supporting children with SEND

The national system of support for children with Special Education Needs and Disabilities (SEND) is in crisis.
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Corporate Landlord – Still a sustainable model?

Almost all the Councils we speak to are struggling with their operational property.  This is despite many of them operating a Corporate Landlord model - the best practice recommended model for Councils to manage their property portfolios
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Alternative Care and Support Models in Adult Social Care

In 2014, we landed our alternative lifestyle “on his street” and as you might well imagine for someone in their late 70s at the time, we may as well have been aliens.  But little by little, stern looks and eyerolls became questions.
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Home to School Transport – A focus on inclusion

In our blogs in recent weeks, we have highlighted a recent report the increasing cost of Home to School Transport which showed a rise of 50% over the 4 years from 2019 to 2023, from c£1.08bn to c£1.5bn.
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DPS or Framework

In the second of two blogs, we consider that, after reviewing the current operations and looking to maximise the existing contract, what factors a Council should consider when choosing between a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) and Framework.
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Home to School Transport – Contract Management

The sympathetic words, the slightly pitying gaze, and the feelings of understanding which passes from one officer to the other.
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