Anyplace council's mental health commissioners have always understood the importance of quality assessments to check the quality of providers and their services: "We have always had a strong focus...
Anytown council's social care commissioning manager wanted to work more closely with people who use services throughout the commissioning process. She knew that previous commissioning work had not involved...
Council officers in Localtown were asked to develop a Market Position Statement for adult social care and support. It needed to be developed and agreed quite quickly. Council officers did not feel that...
Three neighbouring councils in an urban area pooled their budgets for day care. Commissioners created the new service specification by combining elements of the previous three local contracts. Information...
Commissioners in Everytown needed to re-commission a failing mental health day service. Previous day service contracts had been focused on the activities and outputs that the service had to provide but...
A personal health budget is money, planned and agreed between a person and their health team, to support what the person needs for their health and wellbeing. In 2012 Personal Health Budgets were extended...
Lancashire County Council adopted the Working Together for Change approach to co-producing commissioning in 2009. Working Together for Change is an approach that has eight steps to using information...
The guidance for the Care Act advocates the development and use of Market Position Statements, building on the learning from the Developing Care Markets for Quality and Choice programme . The aim of...
Kent County Council was looking to re-tender the Kent-wide advocacy service. This is a service for people from different backgrounds and with different support needs who might need specialist advocacy...
Kirklees Council aimed to develop their information and advice service so that carers in the area are helped and supported in their caring role. In order to do this, Kirklees Council took a co-produced...