Achieving Better Outcomes

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Achieving Better Outcomes

• Commissioning in Childrens Services

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Every Child Matters 5 years on
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Every Child Matters 6 years on
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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 Childrens
Trust partners to include schools, colleges and
Jobcentre Plus
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What do we mean by
The Childrens Trust the sum total of
co-operation arrangements and partnerships
between organisations from governance to front
line delivery
Childrens Trust Board a statutory body with
responsibility for developing the Children and
Young Peoples Plan and monitoring its
implementation
The Children and Young Peoples Plan (CYPP) the
agreed joint strategy of the partners in the
Childrens Trust on how they will co-operate to
improve childrens 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.
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Statutory Childrens Trust partners
Existing statutory partners
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

• 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)

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The Childrens 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
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The Childrens Trust Board and commissioning
The Childrens 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

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Timeline
2009
2010
2011
2012
Nov
Jan
April
March
April
Jointly owned Children and Young Peoples Plans
published (April 2011)
New Childrens Trust guidance published and CYPP
regulations laid (March 2010)
Royal Assent Childrens Trust consultation begun
(13 Nov)
Statutory Childrens Trust Board in place (April
2010)
Childrens Trust consultation closed (29 Jan)
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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 Childrens Trusts to
  bring about required organisational change to
  improve effectiveness of commissioning at all
  levels
• To provide support and challenge for Childrens
  Trusts (all people working within and for
  Childrens Trusts)
• To provide a vehicle to share great practice
  across Childrens 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
INTENSIVE BESPOKE SUPPORT OPEN TO ALL DURING
THE PROGRAMME
Adhoc support required to address specific local
issues will be woven into the overall support
plan for each Childrens 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
  Childrens Services. It is designed for everyone
  who needs to know about commissioning from
  Members and chief execs to team managers and
  providers.

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Contents

• What is Commissioning?
• Achieving Better Outcomes
• A. Commissioning Governance and Frameworks
• B. Commissioning Activity
• C. Commissioning Capacity and Competencies

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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.

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Achieving Better Outcomes
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Achieving Better Outcomes
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A. Commissioning Governance and Frameworks

1. The commissioning process
2. Commissioning principles
3. Strategies and plans
4. Relationships between levels of commissioning
5. Governance

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The Commissioning Process
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Governance
Note governance arrangements are different in
all local areas
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Strategies and Plans
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Relationship between levels of commissioning
National
Regional
Sub-regional
Local area or strategic
Service or practice
Individual
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B. Commissioning Activity

1. Commissioning mechanisms
2. Optimising resources
3. Whole system design
4. Targeting
5. Data and intelligence
6. Performance management

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Mechanisms, Resourcing, Whole System Design and
Targeting
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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
7. Senior-level commitment and support

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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

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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 childrens services
  system
• Making sound financial investments

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Questions
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