Commissioning Process Evaluation

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Commissioning Process Evaluation Refining
Priorities

• Ian Redding
• Head of Grants,
• Services Directorate

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I will cover..

• Commissioning process evaluation
• Improving the process for future commissioning
• The recession refining current outcomes
• Future priorities

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Review of Commissioning Process

• SQW Consulting engaged by London Councils in
  partnership with 3rd sector
• Reviewing whether process has achieved what it
  was designed to do
• Any issues that could make process better?
• Any unwanted casualties?
• Any areas where capacity building needed?
• Any lessons for other commissioners?

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Evaluation of findings so far

• Commissioning approach broadly welcomed
• Improvements needed to scoring process to reflect
• Quality of previous performance
• Real evidence of working with communities
• Too many priorities, spreading resources too
  thinly
• Better processes for partnership/consortia bids

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Improving the Process

• Final report from SQW in late March Grants Cttee
  to consider on 22 April 2008
• Resulting action plan addressed to consider how
  to improve process needs to consider any other
  good practice emerging across the country
• LC/3rd Sector Steering Group to look to identify
  most appropriate improvements
• Final proposed improvements to be agreed by
  Grants Committee in July 2009
• Consider how to promote any identified good
  practice

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Recession and Effects on Outcomes

• London Funders/LRC event 11 Feb 09, will result
  in potential actions to address emerging issues
• Big Squeeze responses will help provide more
  evidence relevant to changing needs
• London Funders expecting a series of future
  service specific events
• LC not proposing removing funding from
  commissioned organisations refocus upon the
  outcomes in each service area that are now the
  most pressing
• Potential for funders to work together to jointly
  address critical needs but not lose focus on
  underlying needs/problems/issues

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Future Priorities - 2011/15

• Need to learn from existing commissioning
• Need to learn from changing needs caused by
  recession
• Need to consider longer term underlying needs
• Consider if monies need to be set aside for
  shorter term as opposed to longer-term issues
• Cllr Hillan explained timing earlier, but getting
  Leaders Committee agreement to priorities in
  July 2010 or very shortly afterwards is key
• Must maximise benefit from the programme