Find the right placement in hours, not weeks.
bPlaced gives local authority placement teams live availability across vetted, Ofsted-registered providers, and gives providers referrals that actually fit the young people they care for.
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A Tuesday afternoon placement search, two ways.
A young person needs a home by Friday. Here is how that search runs today in most placement teams, and how it runs on bPlaced.
Without bPlaced inbox, phone, spreadsheet
- Email the referral to a distribution list of 60 providers. Hope the list is current.
- Eleven replies. Six are full. Two are for the wrong age range. One asks for the referral again.
- Chase. A home that said yes has since taken another child. Start again.
- Accept a placement 90 miles away because it is available, not because it fits.
Two and a half days.No audit trail, no visibility of what was actually out there.
With bPlaced one referral, live availability
- Enter the young person's anonymised needs, location and any specific requirements.
- See every vetted, Ofsted-registered home that matches, with live availability and inspection rating.
- Send enquiries to the homes that fit, all from one screen. Responses come back in one format.
- The young person is visiting a home that was chosen for them, close to school and family.
Same afternoon.Every step recorded. Every provider on the list checked and current.
Every referral ends at a front door. We make sure it's the right one.
Close to school, close to family, chosen for fit rather than for space.How a referral moves through bPlaced.
The platform does the searching and the structure. Your team keeps the decision. Nothing about the young person leaves the system until you say so.
Send one referral
A short, secure form captures needs, location and requirements once. The referral carries an anonymised reference, and you control what each provider sees.
Match against live availability
Every provider in the network is checked against the referral, using availability they update themselves and registration we verify. Six match from 118.
Enquire, compare, decide
Send enquiries to the homes that fit. Responses come back in one format. Your team makes the call, with a full record of how.
Not ready for a new system? Send us the referral instead.
Our managed matching service runs the same search for you and returns a structured shortlist of up to five providers with live availability, usually within 24 to 48 hours. Spot purchase, success fee only, no procurement needed for a one-off.
What brings you here?
I'm on a placement or commissioning team
You need to see what is genuinely available, fast, and be able to show how the decision was made.
- Live availability across verified providers
- Targeted matches, enquiries in one place
- Clear audit trail for every search
I run a children's home or supported accommodation
You want referrals that match your provision, not a hundred emails a day for beds you do not have.
- Referrals aligned to your registration and capacity
- Visibility to local authority teams
- Fewer non-viable enquiries
I'm a young person, parent or carer
bPlaced works behind the scenes with your local authority. We do not hold your name or details, and we never make the decision.
- Homes are chosen for fit, not just for space
- Your views and needs travel with the referral
- Talk to your social worker about how it is used
Built by people who have sat on both sides of the referral.
bPlaced started as a frustration shared between a social worker who grew up in care and an operations leader who had run children's services. Both had watched good homes go unfilled while children waited, because nobody could see who had space.
Roxroy Fearon spent more than 30 years as a frontline social worker after going through the care system himself. He knows what a placement made under pressure costs a child, and what a placement made well can give them. He also has seven grandchildren, which keeps the point sharp.
Jessica Sandall brings 17 years across early years and multi-site children's services, leading teams, overseeing safeguarding and turning good intentions into operations that hold. She is the reason the platform is simple, and a very proud mum of three.
Roxy on turning a system that fails children into one that believes in them
Recorded at We The Curious, Bristol, November 2025.
Placement teams: book a discovery call
Thirty minutes with Roxy or Jess. Bring a recent search that went badly and we will show you how it would have run on bPlaced.
Providers: register your provision
We verify every registration before a home joins the network. Tell us about your provision and we will be in touch within two working days.
Rather email? Write to us at info@bplaced.co.uk