Budget-holding lead professional pilots
The budget-holding lead professional pilots aim to test whether better service packages for core groups of children and families can be delivered by giving lead professionals a budget. This budget is used to procure goods and commission services directly from providers.
16 pilots were set up in June 2006. They are due to run up to April 2008. The pilots are based in the following local authorities: Blackpool, Bournemouth, Brighton and Hove, Derbyshire, Devon, Gateshead, Gloucestershire, Hertfordshire, Knowsley, Leeds, Poole, Redbridge, Telford and Wrekin, Tower Hamlets, Trafford, and West Sussex.
The pilots were set up following the publication of Support for Parents: The Best Start for Children, which set out a clear ambition to promote greater personalisation of services. It also described the need to establish a series of pathfinders to test whether a budget-holding lead professional model may be implemented more widely. Support for Parents is available below along with further documentation aimed at the pilot authorities.
Documents
Summaries
of local authority pilot bids (June 2006)
Outlines the pilot authorities' aims, focus of activity and budget
scope
Literature
review (June 2006)
Examines the implications of devolving budget holding responsibilities to lead
professionals working in children's services
Budget-holding
Lead Professional Factsheet (March 2007)
Support
for Parents: The Best Start for Children (December 2005)
Further information for pilot authorities
Budget-holding Lead Professional (BHLP) - Stories from
Schools (June 2008)
Training
Materials - the role of the Budget-holding Lead Professional (December
2007)
Budget-holding
Lead Professional (BHLP) Conference Open Space Notes Summer
2007 (October 2007)
Budget-holding
Lead Professional Pilots (BHLP) - local evalutions (October
2007)
Understanding
the skills needed by Budget-holding Lead Professionals, their supervisors and
managers (October 2007) and Approaches to training Lead Professionals and
Budget-holding Lead Professionals (March 2007)
Evaluating
Budget-holding Lead Professionals within Multi-Agency Children's Services
in England (March 2006)
Budget-holding
lead professional support (August 2006)
OPM have produced this general guidance on financial management and control to
inform the development of local arrangements for budget-holding lead
professionals involved with the pilot local authorities.
Towards
Mainstreaming the Budget-holding Lead Professional - interim reports
These interim reports consider progress to date and how best to mainstream the
budget-holding lead professional role. The first report was considered at a
workshop for pilots in January 2007 and the second interim follows this up with
subsequent information from the pilots. The definitive report will be available
at the end of 2007.
Realising
the Potential Efficiency Gains from the Budget-holding Lead
Professional (May 2007)
Pooling
Budgets: Issues for Budget-holding Lead Professionals (May 2007)
Budget-holding
Lead Professional Generic Presentation (January 2008)
Commissioning
Change for Children - understanding how the Budget-holding Lead
Professional role can transform services (December 2006)
The budget-holding lead professional pilots have shown how important it is for
multi level commissioning to be developed as part of the implementation of the
lead professional and guidance. This paper explores the inter-relationships
between three key levels of commissioning and provides some help in
understanding and developing multi-level commissioning locally.
Budget-holding
lead professional process mapping report (January 2007)
This report informs discussion of the different approaches to implementing
budget-holding lead professionals in the 16 pilot authorities.
Budget-holding
lead professional in context: three briefing papers (January 2007)
Explains the implications of three government policies to the budget-holding
lead professional: 'Strong and Prosperous Communities', 'Care
Matters' and 'Meeting the needs of children with
disabilities'.
OPM
proposal (July 2006)
This page was last updated on 27 November 2008
