IYSS Action Learning Set Leadership Enhancement Programme

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IYSS Action Learning Set Leadership Enhancement
Programme

• 18 September 2009

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What is commissioning?

• Commissioning is the word that describes the set
  of activities which enable commissioners to make
  decisions about how best to use the total
  resources available for children in order to
  improve outcomes

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What is purchasing?

• The operational activity, set within the context
  of commissioning, of applying resources to buy
  services in order to meet needs either at a
  macro\population level or at a micro\individual
  level. (DoH definition)

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What is joint commissioning?

• The process in which two or more commissioning
  agencies act together to co-ordinate their
  commissioning, taking joint responsibility for
  translating strategy into action

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The Childrens Trust represents the total
resource pool
Youth Justice Board
Probation
Primary Care Trust
Districts
Strategic Health Authority
Schools and Academies
Learning and Skills Council
Connexions
Local Businesses
Fire Brigade
Children and Young People
Local Authority
Job Centre Plus
Sixth Forms FE
Families, Parents and Carers
Police
NHS
Private Providers
3rd Sector
Communities
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The Childrens Trust is as critical a concept at
the Board as it is on the front line
Source DfES
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So what does it mean in practice?
Integrated Processes
Integrated Front-Line Delivery

• Common Assessment Framework
• Information Sharing
• New Barred List/ Registration Scheme
• Re-engineered local processes

• Childrens Centres and Educare
• Extended Schools
• Integrated Youth Offer
• Common Core
• Climbing Frame of qualifications
• Multi-disciplinary Teams Lead Professionals
• Support for parents, carers and families
• Support for children with additional needs
• Integrated Safeguarding

Integrated Strategy

• Needs Analysis CYPP
• Local workforce planning
• Joint Commissioning
• Pooled Budgets

Inter-agency Governance
Leadership

• Co-operation arrangements with partners (e.g.
  VCS, Schools, GPs)
• Local Safeguarding Children Boards

• Directors of Childrens Services Lead Members
• Multi-disciplinary team leadership

Performance Management
Involvement of CYP

• Integrated Inspection of Childrens Services
• Annual Performance Assessment
• Annual priorities conversation

• Childrens Commissioner
• Views into local planning

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Outcome focused co-production
ORGANISATIONS
SERVICE USERS
Public sector
SOCIAL CAPITAL
Children
Contracted Private Sector
Communities
Every Child Matters Outcomes
and Peer Groups
Voluntary Organisations
Private Sector - shops, jobs, finance, housing
and their Families
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Whole system change progress and challenges
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Fundamental reorientation of services

• Doing with rather than doing unto
• Supporting parents and families
• Prevention and early intervention investment in
  neighbourhood services, extended schools,
  childrens centres
• More than the core partners, education, health,
  sometimes social services, community policing,
  housing, communities, leisure ..
• Working across traditional professional
  boundaries, multi disciplinary team round the
  child, common assessment, lead professional child

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Three key aspects to achieving better outcomes
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Achieving Better Outcomes
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Activity - we are encouraging commissioning at
all levels

• Individual level commissioning
• Lead professional and user led
• Personalised agenda
• Operational/community level commissioning
• Groups of children with particular needs
• Localities with particular needs
• Strategic commissioning
• Whole population commissioning across the
  partners of the childrens trust
• Regional level commissioning

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The Commissioning Process
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Many Trusts use the DCSF model of commissioning
to underpin the activity
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This model aligns with World Class Commissioning
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• Look at the current pattern of outcomes for
  children and young people in their area, and
  recent trends, against national and relevant
  local comparators.
• 2) Look within the overall picture at outcomes
  for particular groups of young people.
• 3) Use all this data, and draw on the views of
  children, young people and their families, local
  communities and frontline staff, to develop an
  overall, integrated needs assessment.

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4) Agree on the nature and scale of the local
challenge, identify the resources available and
set priorities for action. 5) Plan the pattern
of service most likely to secure priority
outcomes, considering carefully the ways in which
resources can be increasingly focussed on
prevention and early intervention. 6) Decide
together how best to purchase or provide
(commission) those services, including drawing in
alternative providers to widen options and
increase efficiency.
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• 9) Monitor and review to ensure services are
  working to deliver the ambitions set out for
  them..
• Plan for the workforce development and other
  changes in local processes and ways of working
  necessary to support delivery.
• 7) Develop and extend joint commissioning from
  pooled budgets and pooled resources

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