Joint Commissioning
Joint commissioning is the management and accountability of shared resources to provide services to meet the needs of our community and to most effectively achieve the five outcomes with and for our children and young people. It will ensure that their needs are met either on an individual, neighbourhood or borough-wide basis. These services may be provided by independent contractors such as GPs, schools, public services, private services, community and voluntary services and small entrepreneurial businesses.
We will improve outcomes by:
- Being more focused on what matters and will make a difference to our children and young people.
- Improving the efficiency and effectiveness of our services
- Developing our performance across the whole system, not just in one service.
Cross cutting needs were identified in the 2007-2008 Needs Assessment (click here for the Needs Assesment)and the analysis indicated that we need to :
- Improve behavioural problems and bullying
- Improve emotional health and well-being
- Improve disability services for children and young people
- Improve transition for children and young people across key stages of their lives
- Improve participation of and engagement with children, young people, parents, carers, families and communities which will include local ownership of responses and services.
We will identify and assess the needs of our children and young people by talking to children, young people, families, carers, professionals and the voluntary and community sectors. We will also gather statistical information from all partner agencies to give us more accurate information about issues that affect the individual, communities, neighbourhoods and the borough as a whole.
Click here to see the diagram of the Joint Planning and Commissioning Cycle.