Regional Commissioning Pilots for Children in Care – Vision Document
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Regional Commissioning Pilots for Children in Care – Vision Document.doc| Provider | DCSF |
|---|---|
| Topics | Social care, welfare, protection; Joint planning and commissioning |
| Type | Letters, circulars and communications |
| Date | February 2007 |
| Region | Not Applicable |
This document outlines the importance of regional commissioning and asks for tenders from local authorities and regions to facilitate the pilots. Accompanying the vision paper is a list of regional contacts for the proposals.
The pilot's aspirations are to ensure that by using regional commissioning, local authority systems offer a choice of suitable placements for each child. Final decisions about individual placements will be left in the hands of social workers in discussion with children themselves.
The significance of regional commissioning units for children in care in particular, but also for children's services more widely, lies in their potential to:
- Deliver better value for money by planning for, and aggregating across a
number of authorities demand, for low-incidence services
- Share costs for commissioning functions between a number of
authorities
- Share limited commissioning and market management skills across a wider
geographical area
- Enable more effective management of providers
- Transmit good practice more easily from one authority, or provider, to another
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