Commissioning
This procedure should be used by all adult social care practitioners, with the exception of:
- Practitioners arranging assistive technology or Telecare;
- Practitioners arranging minor works or low level adaptations;
- Occupational Therapy practitioners arranging equipment or a major adaptation.
Although this procedure may be helpful to those people with responsibility for commissioning or brokering services, it does not provide specific guidance about arranging, monitoring or reviewing contracts, or any other associated actions that may be required. Anyone carrying out such actions should refer to available local processes.
The Commissioning Service brings together the commissioning and contract monitoring function across adult, children and public health services.
Commissioners and workers involved in procurement and contracting are at the forefront of ensuring that the provision of social care and other commissioned services (such as education, public health) are of high quality and based on need and delivery of improved outcomes for people who use services.
The commissioning service covers the entire process of aggregating information on the needs of people in a local area, designing and securing services to meet this need and then monitoring and evaluating the impact this has made on individuals and groups.
This is set out in the commissioning cycle and shows the link between strategic commissioning and contracting/procurement of services to meet need.
Information about the services and support provided in North Tyneside can be found on My Care.
See: Providers and Commissioning.
For practitioner resources, refer to the Local Resources section of tri.x.
If you need support around commissioning the team can be contacted using commissioning@northtyneside.gov.uk.
Last Updated: July 18, 2023
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