The Department for Education (DFE) are working with councils on agreeing to outsource Children Services and Social Care functions. This comes as an attempt to remove unnecessary barriers from frustrated Councils in order to deliver an improved and innovative service. External organizations such as voluntary and community groups already help to deliver current services, using outsourcing to delegate the service seems to be the next step. Staffordshire and the London boroughs of Kingston and Richmond Councils are already keen to outsource some of their Social Care Services.

Councils receive shared service funding boost