Commissioning children's centres: Hertfordshire

Contact:

Gary Heathcote
gary.heathcote@hertscc.gov.uk

Provider:

Hertfordshire Children's Trust Partnership

Topics:

Children and Young People's Plan, Children's trusts, Early years and childcare, Joint planning and commissioning, Voluntary and community sector

Type:

Emerging practice

Date:

April 2007

Region:

East England

Hertfordshire has recently completed a multi-agency commissioning process to identify lead agencies to deliver 44 locally run children's centres. This process completes the second phase of children's centre development in Hertfordshire. It has involved a range of local stakeholders including schools, the county council, the voluntary and community sector, the primary care trust and borough councils, and has attracted a wide variety of potential new providers into the local marketplace. 

Benefits include:

• improved provision of locally accessible, high quality, integrated early years services
• rationalisation of planning, funding and procurement across early years services
• strengthened local ownership of services for local children
• reduced duplication of planning and funding arrangements
• increased added value generated by building on local capacity and resourcefulness
• provision of high quality services through assessment processes and reviewing quality standards.

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Last updated on 01/04/2007