Strategy and commissioning
The Commissioning and Contracts section of Strategy and Commissioning, Children’s Services offer a wide range of functions and services.
Functions
- Commission and monitor a range of services for children and families within Salford.
- Monitor quality and benchmark across services, including in-house services, to enable comparisons to be made.
- Make recommendations for improvements as appropriate.
- Manage tendering and other procurement systems, encouraging competition, ensuring fairness and continuity of service.
- Manage the outside placement budget.
- Collect feedback from colleagues and service users and feed this into the monitoring process.
- Engage young people in consultation, service design and procurement processes.
- Contribute to data collection for Placements North West, distributing information as appropriate.
- Produce quarterly and annual monitoring reports and distribute to partners, providers and other stakeholders.
- Manage spot purchased outside placements.
- Go out and visit a range of providers of different services for children and families.
Services
- A liaison service to social work teams, in particular advising on the Outcomes Driving Commissioning toolkit and attendance at panels.
- A liaison service to key Social Care Officers ensuring the Commissioning team is aware of operational matters which will influence how or what we commission.
- Manage and service the Complex Needs panel on behalf of Children’s Services and the Primary Care Trust (PCT).
- Manage the Looked After Children’s, Children’s Rights Strategy Group.
- Offer support and advice to other colleagues involved in commissioning, particularly the Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service. (CAMHS) Co-ordinator and Sure Start Locality Manager.
- Collate detailed information regarding providers and advise Social Workers requiring Outside Placements on appropriate provision.
- Liaise regularly with the Special Educational Needs (SEN) Team and advise aocial work staff of relevant processes and systems.
- Offer advice and support to in-house services development.
- Raise in-house service concerns, where highlighted through benchmarking exercises.
Who to contact
- Name
- Jennifer Walsh
- Address
- Unity House
Civic Centre
Chorley Road
Swinton
Salford
M27 5AW
Map to this location - Telephone
- 0161 778 0533
- jennifer.walsh2@salford.gov.uk
This page was last updated on 8 June 2011
