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Last updated: 29 January 2010
Intelligent commissioning practices are essential if we are to get the best out of the third sector. The National Programme for Third Sector Commissioning is a four-year programme that aims to improve commissioners’ understanding of the potential of the third sector in designing, delivering and improving public services. Through this programme we provide training to improve practice for up to three thousand public sector commissioners.
The programme has now reached phase 2, key developments for which include:
• joint training for commissioners and third sector bidders
• more service specific and joint-commissioning training in the key areas of health and social care, education, training and employment, offender management and criminal justice
• support for use of evaluation tools that measure the achievement of social value
• commissioning for services in untried markets, for example personalised services, direct payments and support for user-led organisations