1. Data on local needs will:
- inform LAA negotiations and CYPP priorities
- inform commissioning decisions, service design and individual packages of care (micro commissioning)
- enable better understanding of local needs
- cover universal as well as specialist needs eg ethnicity and diversity, sexual orientation, deprivation, housing, children in need, children in care, refugee children, anti-social behaviour. health needs.
- so that services can be made as accessible as possible
- use postcode mapping to show where needs are most prevalent across an area.
- to understand what services might be required and what works best for the particular groups you are focusing upon.
- consider how broader initiatives (eg health promotion) might provide opportunities to target on prevention and intervention.
- understand how major local and national policy issues are likely to have an impact on service direction.
- easily understood by Children’s Trust members, professionals, community, parents, children and young people
- to establish a clear project and communication plan right from the start
- to outline the key activities to be undertaken and timetable to work to
- specify the focus of the strategy and the roles and structures to undertake and support the commissioning activities.
Nottingham's Preventative Strategy Model
In 2006 NFER’s research of 75 CYPPs identified eleven different groups identified when setting out joint commissioning strategies. The most frequent groupings were children with learning difficulties and disabilities, looked after children, substance abusers, vulnerable groups and teenage mothers. See Resource C2.
Joint Commissioning strategies in the East Midlands
Joint commissioning strategies specifically to improve outcomes for particular groups of children and young people are developed through the Children’s Trust arrangements across the East Midlands. Generally speaking these involve partnerships roughly consistent with local authority boundaries. See Resource C3.
