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Understanding Costs and Outcomes
in Child Welfare Services

Child Welfare Outcomes

Series Editor: Harriet Ward, Centre for Child and Family Research, Loughborough University, UK

This authoritative series draws from original research and current policy debates to help social work managers, policy makers and researchers to understand and improve the outcomes of services for children and young people in need. Taking an evidence-based approach, these books include childrens experiences and analysis of costs and effectiveness in their assessment of interventions, and provide guidance on how to develop more effective policy, practice, and training.

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Understanding Costs and Outcomes in Child Welfare Services

A Comprehensive Costing Approach to Managing Your Resources

Lisa Holmes and Samantha McDermid

Jessica Kingsley Publishers
London and Philadelphia

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First published in 2012

by Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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and

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Copyright Lisa Holmes and Samantha McDermid 2012

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Holmes, Lisa.

Understanding costs and outcomes in child welfare services : a comprehensive costing approach to managing your resources / Lisa Holmes and Samantha McDermid.

p. cm. -- (Child welfare outcomes)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-84905-214-6 (alk. paper)

1. Children--Services for--Great Britain. 2. Child welfare--Great Britain-- Finance. I. McDermid, Samantha. II. Title.

HV751.A6H65 2012

362.70681--dc23

2011037315

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 978 1 84905 214 6

eISBN 978 0 85700 448 2

Printed and bound in Great Britain

Contents

List of Tables

Table 3.1 Framework for expenditure allocation:
Overheads

Table 3.5 Social care activity time by professional type for Process 2:
Initial Assessment

Table 5.4 Unit costs of Process 3:
Ongoing support according to child need

List of Figures

List of Boxes

Preface

Understanding Costs and Outcomes in Child Welfare Services: A Comprehensive Costing Approach to Managing Your Resources aims to contribute to the evidence base of understanding the costs and outcomes of interventions provided to vulnerable children and their families.

This book brings together a number of studies carried out by researchers over the past five years at the Centre for Child and Family Research, Loughborough University, England. The text builds on and extends a methodology that was first developed in 2000 by Harriet Ward, Lisa Holmes and Jean Soper to cost services for looked after children and to understand the relationship between needs, costs and outcomes when providing services to these children (Ward, Holmes and Soper 2008).

The findings from the research are brought together and set within the policy and practice context in England. As with the aforementioned 2008 publication it should be emphasised that this book is not about cutting costs or reducing services, but about ensuring that limited resources are optimally used to benefit vulnerable children and their families. A point that is particularly pertinent at a time of substantive funding cuts to the public sector and a renewed focus on childrens social care following the publication of the Munro Review of Child Protection a comprehensive investigation of childrens social care (Munro 2010; Munro 2011a; Munro 2011b).

This is a complex book and it could not have been produced without the assistance of a great number of people. The research included in the text has been supported by grants from the Department for Education (formerly Department for Children, Schools and Families), the Local Government Association and also Action for Children. We are grateful for their support and in particular for the support and advice offered from members of the various research advisory groups.

The book would never have been completed without the editorial assistance of both Harriet Lowe and Suzanne Dexter, whose support and attention to detail have been invaluable. To all the other members of the team who have been involved in the costs and outcomes programme of research, in particular to Harriet Ward and Jean Soper, without whom the programme of research would never have been developed. Thanks also to Joe Sempik, Clare Lushey, Doug Lawson, Matthew Padley, Paul Dyson and Mike Gatehouse who have all been involved in the data collection or analysis across one or more of the various studies.

Finally, we particularly wish to thank all the local authorities and service providers that have participated in the research, for taking the time to complete various surveys and for taking the time to speak to members of the research team. Most importantly we express our thanks to all the children and families that have contributed either by completing online surveys or agreeing to meet with one of the research team. We hope that the methodology and findings from the research will help to improve service provision in the future.

CHAPTER 1

Introduction

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