It's important but it's not the most exciting material.
Management speak? Yes, plenty of that. The significance of it is that while individual services may have taken a commissioning role over the past decade, the process now has to adapt to a joined-up world and the emergence of children's trusts. Just as front-end delivery to young people is supposed to be more seamless, this has to be backed up by strategic planning and commissioning.
And how should you go about that?
The first step is needs assessment - so there has to be comprehensive data collection across a local area, with the data capable of being broken down by ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability, risk of criminality and so on. Much of this will be being collected already, but will need to be brought together. A baseline will be created for use in comparison with similar districts and to spot trends. Analysing the data will inform priorities.
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