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Last updated: 21 January 2010
21 January 2009
As part of the £15.5m Targeted Support Fund programme funded by Office of the Third Sector and Department of Health, £500,000 was allocated to improve commissioning with third sector organisations in areas identified as at most risk of increased deprivation.
This funding will be used to help remove practical barriers to successful commissioning between local public bodies, such as the local authority, primary care trust and children’s trust, and third sector organisations in the selected areas.
This programme has been designed to allow local public bodies and third sector organisations to focus on unblocking specific barriers to successful commissioning in their locality.
The aim of the local projects is to produce learning which can be disseminated widely and improve third sector commissioning across the country. As such, areas have been selected based on previous involvement in work in relation to commissioning and partnership working with the third sector.
IDeA and its partners will deliver this programme as a distinctive and additional element of the second phase of the National Programme for Third Sector Commissioning.
In each of the selected areas, local partnerships of public bodies and the third sector will take part in a facilitated local diagnostic session to uncover key commissioning barriers, the development of a local improvement plan and the design of a local project, with up to £25,000 funding provided for activity to address these issues.
The following areas have agreed to take part in the programme:
Bradford
Calderdale
Darlington
Dudley
Greenwich
North East Lincolnshire
St Helens
Wakefield
Walsall
Wigan