Joint planning and commissioning: guidance and tools
This page provides the latest guidance and tools to assist in joint planning and commissioning services for children and young people.
Guidance
Learning From Experience: Schools commissioning by local
authorities
This guide, published in July 2008, looks at the practical aspects of the local
authority role as strategic commissioner of school places and school services.
For full details, and to access the guide, go to the Learning
From Experience: Schools commissioning page.
Good
Practice Guide to Commissioning Connexions
A step-by-step guide to commissioning connexions which draws on the experiences
of four local authorities.
Joint
Planning and Commissioning Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity
Services (2006)
Key guidance for joint planning and commissioning to create a unified
system in every local area.
Support
Pack for the Joint Planning and Commissioning Framework (2006)
A range of resources to accompany the framework.
Inter-agency
Cooperation to Improve the Wellbeing of Children - Children's
Trusts (2005)
Tools
Personalisation:
The Seven Steps of Self-Directed Support
This paper sets out a commonly used process of self-directed support.
Delivering
Better Children's Services through Better Market Development
A discussion paper to help commissioners understand market development
techniques.
Joint
Planning and Commissioning Easy Monte Carlo Tool
A spreadsheet-based tool to help planners and commissioners make more accurate
estimates.
Data
Sources for Commissioners
Brings together many of the sources of data that are useful
to commissioners into one document.
Industry
Techniques and Inspiration for Commissioners
An insight into the way business and industry tackle challenges of a
similar scale to the Every Child Matters: Change for Children
programme.
Evaluation
of Commissioning the Voluntary Sector with a Capacity Building Model of
Commissioning
This document provides an insight into the practical application of a technique
known as 'results based accountability' or 'turning the
curve'.
Click access further materials relating to joint planning and commissioning.
This page was last updated on 30 September 2008
