1. Claire Mansfield and Sarah Stopforth
All Together Now: Whole Systems Commissioning for Councils and the Voluntary Sector
Claire Mansfield and Sarah Stopforth

2. Current Context Public sector budget cuts
56.3% cuts to local government
Uncertainty post-Brexit
Transformation in public sector partnerships
Integration and shared services
Increasing partnerships with voluntary and community sector organisations
Grant-givers to commissioners
Value for money
Outcomes-based commissioning
Commissioning challenges

3. ‘All Together Now’ Report
Whole Systems Commissioning for Councils and the Voluntary Sector

4. Whole Systems Commissioning
Putting the person at the centre of the commissioning process
Collaboration between commissioners and providers
Collaboration between providers

5. Putting the person at the centre
“We need to go to the community directly, ask what they want, and establish a meaningful dialogue”
“Start with what he has rather than what he has not”

6. Collaboration between commissioners and providers
“Better collaboration from both sides is needed”
“We need to make the case for engagement
in a cycle”

7. Collaboration between providers
“The reason people fall through the net is because they are signposted to so many different people and no-one takes responsibility”
“It is difficult to expect partnerships to continue to run when not funded to do so”

8. RECOMMENDATIONS
Make social value more than a 'duty to consider' and, where more appropriate, continue to provide grants for lower value, specialist contracts.
Continuous ongoing dialogue between all partners.
Commissioners need to incentivise whole system behaviour.