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Re: Uploading your CYPP to the Commissioning Support website

I have just added Bromley's Children and Young People's Plan 2009-2011: http://www.commissioningsupport.org.uk/cs/media/p/1513.aspx Interested in your comments… Michael Watts Senior Partnership and Planning Officer London Borough of Bromley michael.watts@bromley.gov.uk

Posted to Commissioning Support Programme (Forum) by Michael Watts on 02-26-2010

Re: Structure and Governance of Strategic Commissioning - Ideas wanted!

Hi all Following Judith's comments I would agree that decision-making tends to happen at different levels in different ways. The Trust Board needs to be setting the strategic commissioning decisions, using the CYPP to direct discussions and resources to meet the priorities outlined. Then there is...

Posted to Commissioning Practice (Forum) by Michael Watts on 12-17-2009

Using Children's Trust Board as a 'funding vehicle'

Whilst at the National Commissioning Event yesterday (18 November) , an idea struck me that I brought up during the workshop, and then thought maybe I should seek the views of members of this site. One of the biggest complaints that staff within children's trusts make is that central government does...

Posted to Commissioning Practice (Forum) by Michael Watts on 11-19-2009

Re: Using Social-networking to engage young people in commissioning.

Hi Judith - thanks for pointing this document, it seems to have slipped by me. Social networking is something that we are considering here in Bromley. As a first step we have developed a a YouTube and Twitter site for the Trust partnership; although this is primarily aimed at professionals. Our local...

Posted to Discussion Point (Forum) by Michael Watts on 08-26-2009

Re: Web-based CYPPs

Hi Murad I would be very interested in talking to you about this, both in terms of the CYPP for Bromley, and also our commissioning toolkit. I have added a little pilot page to 'Peer Review Content' page to see how that goes. Can we meet up for a chat on this? Michael

Posted to Resource Bank discussion forum (Forum) by Michael Watts on 08-24-2009

Reactive or planned commissioning?: managing central government grant funding

During the last Commissioning Operational Group within Bromley we asked our commissioners what barriers they found when trying to undertake commissioning processes. The top response was, as expected, “resources” in terms of both staff and time available to complete all the tasks. The second...

Posted to Commissioning Practice (Forum) by Michael Watts on 08-12-2009

Re: Support for Children's Trusts - staff

Hi Alice I am the Partnerships and Planing Officer within the London Borough of Bromley, and the main part of my role is support Bromley's Children's Trust. We don't have a designated 'Children's Trust Manager' or a dedicated 'Children's Trust Support team', instead...

Posted to Commissioning Practice (Forum) by Michael Watts on 08-06-2009

Re: Balancing perspectives: partnership vs individual organisation

Hi Naomi You can view the document on the CSP website on the following page: http://www.commissioningsupport.org.uk/cs/media/p/202.aspx I hope that this helps - if you need any more info, please let me know. Many thanks Michael

Posted to Discussion Point (Forum) by Michael Watts on 06-23-2009

Balancing perspectives: partnership vs individual organisation

One of the complications that many professionals are noticing is the difficulty in balancing the perspectives of partnership working against individual organisation needs. How do you ensure that everybody is working within the same set of rules, whilst also allowing for the rules to be varied as necessary...

Posted to Discussion Point (Forum) by Michael Watts on 06-17-2009

Re: Procurement Guide/Standards for a Children's Trust (for commissioning providers/services)

Hi Simon Although this may not be directly helpful for your specific request, but I hope this might be slightly useful! We have developed some Commissioning Aims, Principles and Processes across the Trust partnership (this has been signed off by our Trust Board). You can view them here: www.commissioningsupport...

Posted to Commissioning Practice (Forum) by Michael Watts on 05-21-2009