Regional Commissioning Framework

Project Objectives and Scope

The Institute of Public Care (IPC) has been asked to support two strands of activity within the overall programme. Firstly, in support of authorities they will develop a commissioning framework for adult learning disability services across the South West region. The aim is to help local authorities deliver improvements in the overall configuration of services to meet the needs of adults with learning disability, through more effective local and regional commissioning arrangements.

IPC will present a commissioning template and a set of model commissioning arrangements for Assistant Directors and senior learning disability managers at a seminar for all local authorities in the region. Following this, the framework will be amended and there will be a one-day support seminar to help each of four sub-regional groups of learning disability leads and colleagues to design local arrangements, which will enable them to implement the framework.

The second activity within a separate project involves IPC supporting two local authorities to help them model and test the commissioning approach (PID SWCoE0038).

Anticipated gains from the project

It is probable that there will be no direct cashable or non-cashable efficiency savings achieved during the course of this project.

The key deliverable is a common framework and set of tools/approaches for commissioning and contracting adult learning disability services, and a programme of skills development for all commissioners in the region

Wider implications and anticipated gains if it were successfully rolled out:

This is already structured as a regional programme with the benefits of consistency and reduced duplication of approach for first-tier authorities in the SW.