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Join us on 19th May online to hear how Bridgend Children and Family Services have approached recovery and improvement following a period of significant challenge. Open to all.
We have limited spaces remaining on these upcoming courses. Our Spring Children's Care Purchasing and Brokerage starts this week on 5th March so please contact us if you're interested in joining us.
On 11th February 2026, over 100 professionals from across England and Wales attended one of our knowledge exchange webinars, focused on the South West Regional Sufficiency Strategy project. Read about the webinar and key insights.
This blog is the first from Transformation Partners in Health and Care (TPHC) and IPC. By combining TPHC’s NHS-facing transformation and analytics expertise with IPC’s academic rigour and leadership in research and evaluation, we’re exploring how emerging technology can be used.
In January, over 160 professionals from across England and Wales attended one of our series of research and practice webinars, focused on safeguarding within adoptive and special guardianship families.
This report was produced by IPC, which independently evaluated the programme commissioned by the Department of Health and Social Care.
The Institute of Public Care is expanding, and we're looking for experienced consultants to lead our knowledge exchange projects.
The Institute of Public Care is growing, and we're looking for an enthusiastic Assistant Consultant to join our team.
This free event is OPEN TO ALL and is aimed at Commissioners and strategic leads in Children’s Services with responsibility for Sufficiency of Children’s Services provision, primarily around children in care.
We have a few remaining spaces on our Principles of Commissioning course February 2026 and Children's Care Purchasing and Brokerage course March 2026.
New Publication. This Strategy provides an up-to-date regional picture of supply and demand of children’s placements to inform action to tackle challenges which are urgent and widely shared. It will be of interest to both commissioners and providers, as well as other regions developing collaborative approaches to address insufficiency.
We’re offering a 15% reduction on the £900 teaching fee for the Children’s Commissioning Course in January - March 2026.

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