Issue - meetings

Report of the Director of Children’s Service (attached).

(Agenda Item 8):

The Board received a summary outlining the recent work between Haringey Children’s Services and the TPT on joint commissioning supported by DfES funding. It was emphasised that joint commissioning was a key component in delivering the Every Child Matters programme. A joint report by the two agencies was presented which highlighted a proposed timetable for the implementation of a joint commissioning framework together with a proposal for a jointly funded Strategic Commissioner Post.

There were a number of questions from the Board based around the projects such a substance mis-use, and how practice based commissioning would work. In response, it was emphasised that more work would need to be done and that this would be a two-way process as the approach evolved. The Board heard that whilst individual pieces to a joint commissioning framework already existed, its future development would require a set of protocol in order to ease the way of getting partners involved.

RESOLVED:

That the CYPSPB agree to the recommendations set out in the Report, and that the Board receive a progress update at its November 2006 meeting.