Achieving Better Outcomes: Commissioning in Children`s Services

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Achieving Better Outcomes

Commissioning in Children’s Services

Every Child Matters… 5 years on

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Every Child Matters… 6 years on

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Children Act 2004

LA, PCT

S31,

Health Act 1999

Districts, SHA, LSC, Probation,

YJB, Police, Connexions

S10 Duty to Cooperate,

Children Act 2004

Other partners including Providers, Children and Young People, Parents, Community

“Other partners or persons”

10i(c) Children Act 2004

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Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning

(ASCL) Act 2009

ASCL Act 2009 builds on Children Act 2004 by: requiring every area to have Children's Trust Board giving the Board responsibility for preparing and monitoring the implementation of the CYPP extending range of statutory Children’s Trust partners to include schools, colleges and Jobcentre Plus

What do we mean by…

The Children’s Trust: the sum total of co-operation arrangements and partnerships between organisations from governance to front line delivery

Children’s Trust Board: a statutory body with responsibility for developing the Children and Young People’s Plan and monitoring its implementation

The Children and Young People’s Plan (CYPP): the agreed joint strategy of the partners in the Children’s Trust on how they will cooperate to improve children’s well-being (the five outcomes)

Commissioning : the overall process by which all relevant services should be planned, investment decisions agreed , delivery ensured and effectiveness reviewed.

Statutory Children’s Trust partners

Existing statutory partners

• Strategic Health Authority

• Primary Care Trusts

• District councils

• Local police

• Youth Offending Team

• Local probation board

• Learning & Skills Council for

England & Connexions (functions soon to be transferred to local authorities)

New statutory partners

• Maintained schools

• Academies

• City technology colleges etc

• Non-maintained special schools

• Pupil Referral Units (Short Stay

Schools)

• Further education institutions

• Jobcentre Plus

The Children’s Trust Board will have a specific role:

• develop the CYPP

• monitor the implementation of the CYPP

• prepare an annual progress report on implementation

The Board PREPARES and MONITORS the Plan but does not deliver it – this is the responsibility of partners individually and together

The Children’s Trust Board and commissioning

The Children’s Trust Board has a distinctive role within the commissioning cycle and will:

• provide a high level strategic framework for commissioning through the CYPP

• agree a common vision, principles and standards which will inform local commissioning

• agree and establish across the partnership an understanding of the commissioning process between the partners

Timeline

2009

Nov

2010

Jan

Royal Assent

Children’s

Trust consultation begun (13

Nov)

Children’s Trust

March

New

Children’s

Trust guidance published and CYPP regulations laid (March

2010)

April

Statutory

Children’s Trust

Board in place

(April 2010) consultation closed (29 Jan)

2011

April

2012

Jointly owned

Children and Young

People’s Plans published (April

2011)

The Commissioning Support

Programme

Overarching aims:

● To support a step change in commissioning capacity and capability in order to improve outcomes for children and young people locally

● To work in partnership with Children’s Trusts to bring about required organisational change to improve effectiveness of commissioning at all levels

● To provide support and challenge for Children’s Trusts (all people working within and for Children’s Trusts)

● To provide a vehicle to share great practice across Children’s

Trusts; thereby accelerating the pace of change nationally

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Our offer of support is comprehensive

Completion of Self Analysis and Planning Exercise

UNIVERSAL OFFER OF SUPPORT – OPEN TO ALL THROUGHOUT THE PROGRAMME

Capability building: Commissioning training; professional development – from Spring 09

Communities of practice and special interest groups– immediate/as required

Leadership development – from Spring 09

On – line community of practice – from February 09

Regional/sub-regional conferences e.g Market Development/Provider conferences – from April 09

INTENSIVE BESPOKE SUPPORT – OPEN TO ALL DURING THE PROGRAMME

Support

Agreement

Developed

Explore Prepare Deliver Sustain

Adhoc support required to address specific local issues will be woven into the overall support plan for each

Children’s Trust.

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Supporting Commissioning

● Across government, commissioning is seen as an important process for securing better outcomes and meeting budget pressures.

● The challenge now is to mainstream commissioning,

professionalise our workforce, and ensure that services are fundamentally redesigned around children and young people.

● The commissioning support programme has worked closely with hundreds of commissioners to develop

Achieving Better Outcomes: Commissioning in

Children’s Services. It is designed for everyone who needs to know about commissioning – from Members and chief execs to team managers and providers.

Contents

● What is Commissioning?

● Achieving Better Outcomes

● A. Commissioning Governance and Frameworks

● B. Commissioning Activity

● C. Commissioning Capacity and Competencies

What is Commissioning?

● Commissioning is the process for deciding how to use the total resource available for children, young people and parents in order to improve outcomes in the most efficient, effective, equitable and sustainable way.

Achieving Better Outcomes

Achieving Better Outcomes

A. Commissioning Governance and Frameworks

1.

The commissioning process

2.

Commissioning principles

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Strategies and plans

4.

Relationships between levels of commissioning

5.

Governance

The Commissioning Process

Governance

Note – governance arrangements are different in all local areas

Strategies and Plans

What do you want to achieve in the whole local area, for the whole population?

What do you want to achieve for

Children, Young People and their

Families? What are the priorities?

What are the high-level resources?

How are you going to run the commissioning function? What is the overall approach, rules of the game, process and principles?

How are you going to meet the intentions and priorities set out in the Children and Young People’s

Plan, using the Commissioning

Framework?

Relationship between levels of commissioning

National

Regional

Sub-regional

Local area or strategic

Service or practice

Individual

B. Commissioning Activity

1.

Commissioning mechanisms

2.

Optimising resources

3.

Whole system design

4.

Targeting

5.

Data and intelligence

6.

Performance management

Mechanisms, Resourcing, Whole

System Design and Targeting

C. Commissioning Capacity and

Competencies

1.

Commissioning team

2.

Base all decisions on improving outcomes

3.

Leadership

4.

Innovation

5.

Managing change

6.

The culture supports organisational learning and partnership working

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Senior-level commitment and support

Commissioning Team (1)

● Engaging and drawing on the experience of local community leaders and community partners

● Engaging and drawing on the experience of local leaders from schools, hospitals and other locally based agencies

● Engaging with children, young people and their families

● Collaborating with providers

● Mapping resources

● Specifying and measuring outcomes

Commissioning Team (2)

● Managing knowledge and assessing needs

● Prioritising investment

● Shaping and managing the markets

● Promoting improvement and innovation

● Securing procurement skills

● Project and change management

● Managing and leading the children’s services system

● Making sound financial investments

Questions

www.commissioningsupport.org.uk

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