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Commissioning and
Market Development
The evolving landscape
Benedict Arora
Commissioning and Market
Development
What is commissioning?
Four key stages
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needs assessment
service design
procurement and contracting
reviewing and monitoring
Commissioning - from transaction to
transformation
• Helps to redesign services to focus on outcomes
• Puts service users at the centre of process
• Helps shift services away from traditional patterns
of service provision, and traditional providers
• Liberates local partners to champion the needs of
children and families
Implications for local authorities and PCTs
• Strategic leadership at EM, DCS and AD level
• Information and data rich planning
• Culture of openness to engage with services users and potential
providers
• Importance of partnership working, building on children’s trusts
• Change patterns of service provision, including decommissioning
services
• Technical competence in managing potential provider base
• Mixture of public, private and third sector providers
So what is the Department doing? Joining
itself up better!
• Narrowing its focus to children, schools and
families
• Machinery of government changes
– Respect
– Youth Justice
– Joint policy units
• Joining up policy on schools and children’s
services
• Local authority as commissioner of schools
pathfinders
National agenda
• Convergence of DCSF, DH and CLG policy
– Joint planning and commissioning framework
– Local government white paper
– Commissioning framework for health and well-being
– Forthcoming guidance on place shaping and competition
• Key themes
– Citizen centred
– Outcomes focused
– Joint working/responsibility
– Important potential role for Third Sector
• Questions remain
– LA/PCT/schools/PBC “fit”
What are we doing? Support and case
studies
• Building capacity though the
Centre for Procurement
Performance
• Peer-to-peer commissioning
support
• Commissioning case studies
What are we doing? Practice guidance
• Providing practical, focused
guidance
• Publication of practice guidance
on joint funding
• Sets out key steps to creating
aligned or pooled funds
What are we doing? Regional support
for commissioners
• Five regional commissioning pilots
and one cross regional
commissioning pilot about
to get underway
• Will test regional commissioning
for children in care
Where are we heading? Legal reforms
and commissioning
• Nearly one third of children in care are
placed outside their authority’s boundary
• Bill will also contain a provision to reduce
the use of out-of-authority placements
• Such placements should only be used in
response to a child’s particular needs and
not because of a lack of local capacity
So what is the Department doing?
Forthcoming research projects
• DCSF intends to develop a survey of children’s
services providers
• Interviews with up to 5,000 providers (public,
private and VCS)
• Quantitative data e.g. staff numbers and
qualitative data e.g. views and perceptions
What are we doing? Standard contracts
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Local authorities commission
services for children from
a mixed market.
• Wide variety of contracting
arrangements
• Potential for efficiencies and spread of
good practice
• National special schools contract published in May
• Residential care contract imminent
• IFA and leaving care to follow
Questions?
[email protected]
www.everychildmatters.gov.uk