A year has passed under lockdown measures, and commissioners are balancing business as usual with managing the impact of projects mothballed at the start of the pandemic. One such casualty of the first lockdown was our carers’ support service, a collaboration between adults’ and children’s services across two local authorities and the local clinical commissioning group. The contract, then about to expire, was extended by a year to allow commissioners to focus on immediate, Covid-based pressures. Planned co-production with children, young people and families was rescheduled for the 2020/21 academic year, when we anticipated those pressures would have passed.
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