Joint Commissioner Case Study Project

The Government has a clear aim, through the public service transformation agenda to improve service delivery for customers and deliver significant savings. Through several policies and programmes (including Our Place, Delivering Differently; The Transformation Network and the Commissioning Academy ) the Government is supporting local commissioners to design and implement new and innovative commissioning models to demonstrate how these can:

1. Improve outcomes for service users;

2. Unlock value and efficiencies

3. Deliver savings, manage down demand where early interventions may be more effective.

4. Promote localism, decentralised services, and delivery at lower spatial levels, including the neighbourhood level.

Commissioners have asked DCLG to share clear and compelling models demonstrating possible commissioning solutions they can apply to achieve the outcomes. DCLG's aim is to demonstrate and share what works from the emerging exemplars of innovative commissioning practice and learning drawn from its combined programmes as a way to inspire and assist other commissioners to consider new options to the models they currently use.

DCLG, The Transformation Network and Commissioning Academy have taken this opportunity to commission an independent contractor to produce 20 clear, compelling case studies which will:

1. demonstrate real time examples of current cross-sector service design, commissioning and delivery

2. demonstrate innovative commissioning solutions using a range of different models developed by local commissioners and their partners

3. set out the processes, inputs, outputs and impacts (where these are clearly evidenced with quantitative and qualitative data) associated with those models and how they could be adapted for use by other commissioners.

These case studies needed to be completed by the 13 March 2015.