Introduction

Local government faces an  unprecedented challenge over the next four years - the perfect storm of savage cuts, increasing demand and rising expectation.

Old style approaches such as salami-slicing are often seen as the only solution, and even if we did know better ways to radically redesign the system, how do we lead and manage this scale of change?

The Commissioning Support Programme is working with national partners and leading commissioners to find solutions.

The Outcomes & Efficiency methodology has been developed by leading children’s services commissioners to redesign all local services quickly, by accelerating the commissioning approach that is already established.

The methodology does not promote a particular service design but empowers local professionals and communities to understand the system and create a more effective design. It offers a pragmatic, scalable way of implementing Total Place and Big Society, which quickly implements a top-led bottom-up design of local services.

Download the full slide pack that describes the Outcomes & Efficiency model in more detail.

The Commissioning Support Programme is working with many local areas to help roll out the Outcomes & Efficiency methodology – early materials from this work are available from the Information Exchange. 

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