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Place shaping and commissioning
Added: 23/06/2010
Updated: 27/10/2011
These case studies illustrate some new models of commissioning and place shaping which are beginning to emerge. These approaches tend to be corporate/multi agency and are focussed on broader wellbeing outcomes, supporting services and amenities that promote the building of individual capacity and social capital.
This section includes:
- Examples of integrating social care strategies with wider community and corporate strategies
- Explicit strategies to build community capacity and support and sustain locally-based initiatives
- The benefits of designing co-production into commissioning processes
- Innovative approaches for engaging diverse stakeholders and groups and for devolving decision making and budgets
- Issues around workforce
- Issues around evaluation and mapping.
- Local Area Coordination in England
Local Area Co-ordination, (LAC), is an innovative approach to supporting people who are vulnerable through age, frailty, disability or mental health issues achieve their vision for a good life, to support... - Creating the conditions for co-production within an outcomes approach to commissioning in Camden
By Lucie Stevens, New Economics Foundation NEF (the new economics foundation ) has worked with the London Borough of Camden to develop an Outcomes Based Commissioning Model (OBCM). The OBCM captures... - Developing 16 Commissioning Intentions in Lancashire County Council
By Lucie Stevens, New Economics Foundation In September 2009 the Adult Social Care Team in Lancashire set out to combine local intelligence with a number of national strategies to develop a coherent... - Shropshire: Working Together Group - Growing a network of support through a community café and social enterprise
Working Together is a registered charity which was started by a group of parents and carers of children with learning disabilities in Ludow, Shropshire. They started the organisation in 2002 in order... - Reading Older People's Partnership Board: Increasing preventative services for older people
ReadingBorough Councilhas commissioned a range of services aimed at reducing demand for social care, reducing emergency hospital admissions, and improving older people's health and well-being. These... - Hartlepool - Connected Care Case Study
Connected Care began as a national pilot scheme in the Owton Manor ward, an area of Hartlepool where deprivation has a detrimental effect on residents' health and wellbeing. Connected Care's role is... - Essex - Village Agents
The Village Agents pilot project operates in the rural areas of Braintree, Maldon and Chelmsford districts, providing face to face information and guidance to 'hard to reach' groups. Village Agents make... - Barnet - Carers Strategy
A new approach to supporting carers is being taken across the borough with our partners and carers that recognises the contribution carers make to their families and the community. - Barnet - Innovation Fund
The Innovation Fund project used £200,000 of Barnet's Transformation Grant to create a unique opportunity for service providers and local organisations to develop new, more personalised support... - Barnet - One Barnet
This multi-agency programme within Barnet will revise the way in which public services are provided, so that there is a relentless drive for efficiency, a 'one public sector' approach and a new relationship... - Croydon - Peer Led UserGroup for Adult Substance Misuse
In 2004, Croydon Drug and Alcohol Action Team (Croydon DAAT) established a framework for service user involvement/participation across its adult substance misuse treatment and support system. The aim... - Croydon - Inclusive Forum, Community Co-prouction
In early spring 2008, at the point of establishing its programme for personalisation in adult social care, Croydon Council's department for adult services and housing (DASH) convened a steering group... - RSA - Connected Communities
The RSA's Connected Communities action research programme was established in 2009 and set out to explore how social networks and social capital can be better understood, visualised and mobilised to address... - Nottingham - Asset-based Community Development
The SupportNet project in the Beechdale and Bilborough areas of Nottingham is exploring how Self-Directed Support can develop when a local community (defined here as those who live and work in an area)... - Turning Point - Connected Care, Community Led Commissioning
Connected Care is a new approach to community-led commissioning which integrates health and social care in the most deprived communities with a focus on building community capacity and co-production.... - Richmond - Richmond Independent Brokerage Service
Richmond Independent Brokerage Service (RIBS) was established in 2008 as a response to the Self-Directed Support (SDS) agenda. The aim of the service was to develop and provide a cohesive advice, information... - Hampshire - Combining personalisation with community empowerment
In East Hampshire a pilot combining personalisation with community empowerment focuses on a group of 35 people with a learning disability who meet weekly as 'Friends United'. The group is run and led... - Wiltshire - Building resilient communities
Wiltshire became a unitary authority in April 2009 with an overarching aim of building sustainable and resilient communities through a high level of political decentralisation and a commitment to community... - Newcastle - Developing a Community Linkworker Model
Joining the Dots is a system-wide intervention that aims to improve the ways in which people at risk of isolation access practical help and activities in their local community. The aim is to enable... - Shropshire - My Life My Choice: Stronger Communities Project Group
This project will enable a broad range of local partners to consider how stronger communities can support local people and individualised support packages. It is part of Shropshire's response to the... - York - Community Facilitators
York has introduced Community Facilitators who are becoming instrumental in building community capacity across the city. Their role is to provide advice and information, undertake preventative work and... - Reading Learning Disability Partnership - Service user led development activities
Service users have been involved in the Reading Learning Disability Partnership (RLDP) since it was formed, but traditionally their input was quite disjointed. Over the past couple of years, the Partnership... - Carers and Social Capital
To some extent all initiatives designed to have the end result of carers being better supported in their caring role have the potential to increase supportive relationships, networks and contacts, as... - New Economics Foundation - Joining the Dots: How all the system elements can connect to drive personalisation and co-production, incorporating individual social and community capacity
This briefing outlines how within the context of getting 'value for money' it is essential for local authorities to align service strategies in a way that supports community capacity building and builds...