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Here is a list of all research documents related to child health commissioning:

• Giving children a healthy start: review of health improvements in children from birth to five years (3.1 MB)

  In February 2010, the Audit Commission has issued a report on the local implementation of national policy from 1999 to 2009 on the health of children from birth to five years of age in England. The report found that recent increased focus and funding for early years has not produced widespread improvements in health outcomes. Indeed some health indicators have worsened – for example, obesity and dental health –and the health inequalities gap between rich and poor has barely changed.

• A healthy choice: Building a stronger NHS (380 KB)

  "This CBI report focuses on three areas to accelerate reform and deliver an NHS fit for the 21st century. In particular, it sets out: how patient choices must be driven by advice, support and information; a vision for commissioning in the NHS; the foundations for effective health market management. "

• Aiming High for Disabled Children Conference 2009 (152 KB)

  Departmental overview presentation (Kate Sturdy DCSF and Jacqueline Naylor DH) from Aiming High for Disabled Children (AHDC) 2009. This document provides an update on the key elements of AHDC outlines these topics: What did we set out to do? What progress are we making in delivery? What will drive transformation? The core offer, indicator & parent engagement, cross-cutting activity What progress are we making in delivery? What will drive transformation? The core offer, indicator & parent engagement Cross-cutting activity

• Better Care: Better Lives (975 KB)

  This paper by the Department of Health looks at improving outcomes and experiences for children, young people and their families living with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions including those with a disability. This document sets out future directions for children’s palliative care services and the systems in which these sit.

• Narrowing the gap in outcomes (818 KB)

  The research focuses on the key features of governance necessary to narrow the gap in outcomes for vulnerable groups, and explores whether governance that is effective for narrowing the gap is different from governance that is effective generally. This report will be of interest to directors of children’s services (DCSs), children’s trust board members, policy makers, and senior leaders and managers within local authorities, the National Health Service (NHS), schools, and the voluntary sector.

• Next Practice in System Leadership – Chichester Community Alliance (36 KB)

  Chichester Community Alliance has a nursery school, a children’s centre and two primary schools which together serve around 800 families in central Chichester. The Alliance extends beyond education to include health, social services, the police and voluntary organizations. The Community Alliance was conceived as a way of providing strategic direction for the integration of children’s services in the area and grew from a project that had its roots in Sure Start. The purpose of the Community Alliance is to explore models of leadership and governance that will provide a fit for purpose vehicle for providing efficient and effective services to families in a multi agency setting.

• Commissioning counselling services for young people- a guide for commissioners (1.02 MB)

  The aim of this guide is to assist commissioners charged with the responsibility for services and young people to think about including counselling services in the range of services they commission. Recognised by the Department of Health as a form of psychological therapy, and accepted as a therapeutic approach in the range of interventions for children and adolescents.

• Commissioning Alternative Provision- Guidance for Local Authorities and Schools (264 KB)

  The aim of this guidance is to assist partners responsible for arranging alternative provision for children and young people in commissioning appropriate alternative provision that suitably meets young people’s needs and aspirations, whilst also ensuring good quality and value for money.

• Commissioning Community Health Services (13 KB)

  Strategic commissioners need to think carefully about which commissioning responsibilities they delegate to practice based groups and which they retain. OPM Principal Judith Smyth looks at ways to proceed.

• Next Practice in System Leadership – Darlington Education Village (40 KB)

  Beaumont Hill was a very successful special school in Darlington catering for 225 students with autism, challenging behaviours, and severe learning difficulties. The school’s buildings had aged poorly and the school needed to move to new premises. At the same time the local authority made a commitment to inclusion and to integrating its special needs offer into mainstream education.