While the rest of the country promises to work off their turkey-dinner guilt, what are the top resolutions for commissioners? Here are a few suggestions as you shake off that New Year blur and focus on 2018.
1. Involve children and young people more in commissioning. Each year we get better at putting children at the centre of understanding services, design, governance and reflection. Some of the examples I've seen recently around the country include: apprentice commissioners reviewing mental health in-patient services and setting actions to improve the experience for peers; representative young people involved in recruitment or governance, such as at a children's trust or health and wellbeing board to really demonstrate how important their views are; or strategies and outcome measures written by young people — because we really should use what citizens value as the measure of success in contracts and directorate plans.
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