Joint commissioning

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Look at outcomes for children and young people
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Look at particular groups of children and young
people
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Develop needs assessment with user staff views
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Identify resources and set priorities
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Plan pattern of services and focus on prevention
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Decide how to commission services efficiently
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Commission including use of pooled resources
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Plan for workforce and market development
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Monitor andreview services and process
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Challenges

1. Better understanding of the needs of the local
   population.
2. Effective mapping of needs against existing
   services to identify gaps and areas of overlap.
3. Commissioning against outcome based targets.
4. Shifting funding into preventive work, whilst
   meeting acute demand.
5. Bringing together different commissioning
   approaches / cultures / language of partners.
6. New joint planning and commissioning
   relationships with schools and GPs.
7. Pooling budgets between many partners to support
   integrated commissioning and provision.

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Questions

1. Participation Are children, young people,
   families and the community involved in the
   commissioning of services?
2. Outcomes Do you understand what outcomes are
   being met, and how well? How do you compare to
   your statistical neighbours?
3. Priorities What are the Trusts priorities?
   What are the local political priorities? What
   are national priorities?
4. Service Mapping How much money is spent in the
   local area on children's services? Which services
   are delivering outcomes efficiently and
   effectively? Where are the gaps and overlaps?

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Questions

1. Commissioning Team Do you have a team of people
   for joint commissioning with the wide range of
   skills, experience and backgrounds?
2. Workforce markets Do you know how the
   workforce will be developed in the long term? Do
   you know how you will manage the local markets?
3. Pooling Do you have plans to pool budgets and
   resources for children's services?
4. Economies of Scale Do you have plans to joint
   commission with other children's trusts across
   sub-regions or regions?
5. Prevention Are you investing in early
   intervention and preventive services?