Commissioning Children’s Centres - Hertfordshire
Contact
Gary Heathcote
gary.heathcote@hertscc.gov.uk
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Commissioning Children's Centres - Hertfordshire.pdf| Provider | Hertfordshire Children's Trust Partnership |
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| Topics | Early years and childcare; Children's trusts; Joint planning and commissioning; Children and Young People's Plan; Voluntary and community sector |
| Type | Emerging practice |
| Date | April 2007 |
| Region | Eastern |
Hertfordshire has recently completed a multi-agency commissioning process to identify lead agencies to deliver 44 locally run children's centres. This process completes the second phase of children's centre development in Hertfordshire. It has involved a range of local stakeholders including schools, the county council, the voluntary and community sector, the primary care trust and borough councils, and has attracted a wide variety of potential new providers into the local marketplace.
Benefits include:
- Improved provision of locally accessible, high quality, integrated early years services
- Rationalisation of planning, funding and procurement across early years services
- Strengthened local ownership of services for local children
- Reduced duplication of planning and funding arrangements
- Increased added value generated by building on local capacity and resourcefulness
- Provision of high quality services through assessment processes and
reviewing quality standards
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