This group is for all those working on commissioning in the community sector.

It contains the Kindle publication Commissioning and the Community Sector and the resources that support it.

Community sector organisations can also use the discussion forums to share their experiences of being commissioned or ask for advice from peer organisations across the country.

If you have resources that you have found useful (these might be policies, protocols, toolkits or something else) then why not upload them to the Information Exchange area of the group?

Feel free to explore the rest of the Commissioning Support Programme website to find out more about how commissioners are working with providers from all sectors to achieve better outcomes for children, young people and their families.

Commissioning and the Commmunity Sector is the third in the series of Talking Trusts publications. The others are Talking Trusts and Unlocking Your Potential.

Members of this group will also find it interesting to read Achieving Better Outcomes: Commissioning in Children's Services, a Commissioning Support Programme publication that sets out the elements of effective commissioning.

You can read more about Kindle here.