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Planned approximate weekly expenditure £ per child - Social Work and Commissioning
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- Help text
- 1) Social work (including LA functions in relation to child protection) - Social workers directly involved with the care of children and commissioning services for children.
This Includes most of the direct social work costs, processes for assessing need, determining and defining service to be provided and reviewing the quality of and continued relevance of that care for children. This also includes:
• field social work costs (include Hospital Social Workers);
• Occupational Therapy Services to Children;
• relevant support staff costs;
• child protection social work costs.
This excludes Social Work costs in support of foster carers and adoptive families as these are captured elsewhere in the return.
This also includes spending on LA functions in relation to child protection; all expenditure on carrying out the authority's functions in relation to children protection under the Children Act 1989 and under section 175 of the Education Act 2002 and other functions relating to child protection.
2) Commissioning and Children's Services Strategy - this includes spending on overall commissioning within children's and young people's services; e.g. the cost of a central commissioning function. This also includes any additional expenditure on services that are bought in from outside the local authority to support the central commissioning function. Where joint commissioning units have been set up, e.g. between the local authority and the primary care trust, the overall costs of maintaining the joint unit should be given.
This excludes the costs of the actual services commissioned as well as any social worker costs related to commissioning as these will be captured elsewhere in the return. It also excludes costs of commissioning services specifically for Sure Start Children's Centres.
3) Children's services strategy element - this includes partnership costs for multi-agency working i.e. contributions from the authority to partnership manager and other costs excluding pooled budget contributions for specific front line services. This also includes spending on statutory regulatory duties related to children's services that are not included in the line on central administration related to education above (line 82).
Calculation : (x/y)/365 * 7 where
x = Total estimated expenditure on Social work and Commissioning & Children's Services Strategy
y = Total number of Children in need at 31 March
Result is rounded to nearest £5
- Modified
- 03 Apr 2020
- Data last updated
- 09 May 2016
- Short label
- Planned approximate weekly expenditure £ per child - Social Work and Commissioning
- Status
- Discontinued
- Output precision
- 0
- Polarity
- not applicable
- Measure
- GBP per week per child
- Dataset
- Children and young people spend (weekly expenditure)
- Collection
- LAIT: Children's Service Finance
- Source
- Department for Education
- is found in the following lists
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