Transcript Children and Young People’s Board

The Role of the Children and
Young People’s Commissioner
6th July 2007
Aims of the Presentation
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To give the local context of the county
To give the background to the role
To indicate progress to date
To indicate some possibilities and some
issues around the role
The Big Picture
Facts and figures
• 100 miles end to end
• 50 miles across
• SOAs
– 55 ( 13.5%) in bottom 10% - 20%
– 198 (48.5%) in top 10%- 20%
• 0-19 population of 164,030 ( 26.05%
of total population and increasing)
The Partnership Board
• Led by DCS personally
• Chaired by Chief Exec of
Borough
• Erratic attendance
• Frustrations
• Perceived slow progress
• Lack of capacity
The Job Purpose
• To provide effective leadership and commissioning capacity for
universal and preventative services for children and young people in
the county
• To lead on delivering the priority outcomes for children and young
people identified in the Children and young People's Plan, the Local
Area Agreement and the Plans of Local Strategic Partnerships
• To shape the environment for children's services provision and to
provide effective change management to optimise partnership
working and the effective use of resources
• Strategic Co-ordination of Every Child Matters agenda, including the
National Childcare Strategy, Extended Schools Strategy, School
Improvement Strategy, Children's Centres and the Youth Offer
• Direct, lead and motivate senior managers across partner agencies
to deliver the required outcomes of the CYPPB
What about commissioning??
• Develop Joint Commissioning Strategy
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Agreed approaches
Agreed patterns of delivery
Agreed protocols
Agreed timescales
– Agreed strategy
The Regional Framework
Joint Commissioning is the process whereby partners
who have responsibility for specifying, securing and
monitoring services work together to make joint
decisions about the needs of their population, and how
they should meet them.
The commissioner's role is to bring resources and
strategic direction to the commissioning process. A
commissioning strategy provides the statement of
commitment about the way in which agencies intend to
work with providers and purchase services to improve
outcomes for children and young people.
The Regional Framework
• Gives a point of reference
• Identifies key areas of joint working
– Needs Analysis
– Service design
– Engagement and participation
– Resource allocation
– Market development
– Monitoring and review
Preparing the ground
• Clarify CYPP structures
• Agree framework for delivery with all
partners
• Gain confidence on funding issues
• Set direction of travel
Progress so far
• Area approach agreed – to be developed
over the Autumn
• Links to LAA in process ( especially for
LAA 2)
• Clear focus for Board
• Draft by September
• Protocols by Spring 2008
What is the direction of travel?
• Area approach based on
Districts/Boroughs
• Build on existing M/agency groups
• Individual development plans for each
area
• Initial focus on Integrated Youth Offer
• Eventual joint commissioning unit
Longer Term Vision?
• SLA s with each area identifying their
share of county targets
• Local development plans
• Room for local targets
• Increasing local commissioning ( with
careful governance)
• Move to results based commissioning
Challenges?
• Effective needs analysis
• Business support
– To develop VCS sector to respond to
commissioning environment
– To support schools etc to commission locally
• LAA funding streams and interaction with
local democracy