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

Total Place has been mentioned many times over the course of our CT Review but as yet we dont have a definative document that identifies best practice that can be utilised in CT arrangements, its a major peice of scoping and policy work to identify the linkages and differences. Im interested to see if...

Posted to Commissioning Practice (Forum) by James Harman on 12-08-2009

Structure and Governance of Strategic Commissioning - Ideas wanted!

Hi, We are currently working alongside the CSP in looking at our Commissioning and Delivery arrangements within our Children's Trust arrangements. We are looking for ideas and experiences of where other CT's have found that the strategic commissioning responsibility sits (Or indeed doesn't...

Posted to Commissioning Practice (Forum) by James Harman on 11-18-2009

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

Support for Children's Trusts - staff

Hi, I'm interested in knowing what kind of staff support is available to Children's Trust Boards in other LAs - do you just have admin support e.g. taking minutes and arranging papers for meetings, or do you have staff time to take forward projects etc in between meetings? Do you have a 'Children's...

Posted to Commissioning Practice (Forum) by Alice Bolton on 08-04-2009

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