The three-year Commissioning Support Programme will be launched by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) later this year.
It promises to transform the way services are commissioned by providing tailored training and development for council and children's trust staff, to increase the number of expert commissioners in local areas.
Initiatives to encourage peer networking and service user participation will also form part of the programme, and the DCSF will create an online forum to encourage practitioners to share best practice.
Janet Rich, children's services development officer at the National Care Association (NCA), the union for the independent care sector, is among those campaigning for better local authority commissioning. She said commissioning is currently the most important issue in the public sector.
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