For local authorities faced with finding ways to deliver in-house care services more cost-effectively, there is now an alternative that is gaining interest. It presents less risk and promises to deliver savings and better quality services in a shorter time frame.
Local authorities under sustained financial pressure have no choice but to examine more sensitive services, including expensive in-house care provision that still accounts for 10% to 15% of total local authority spend.
With as much as £1bn of further efficiency savings to be gained across the UK, many authorities are rightly asking themselves: 'Are we the right people to continue to deliver these services on behalf of the tax payer?'
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