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Child Health Promotion

Child Health and Wellbeing Board

The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) and DH are jointly responsible for promoting the health and wellbeing of all children and young people. A new Child and Health Wellbeing Board has been set up to oversee delivery of the PSA ‘to improve the health and wellbeing of children and young people’ and the National Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity. This Board is jointly chaired by DH and DCSF and is made up of Government and external representatives such Chief Executives of Primary Care Trusts, Strategic Health Authorities and Directors of Children’s Services. The Board will report at ministerial level.

Commissioning

World class commissioning (WCC) sets out a new approach to commissioning for health and care services. It underpins delivery for many of the objectives of health policy and will bring about improvements in health & well-being.

There are several streams of work in the WCC programme, including:

  1. Articulating a vision for what WCC can achieve and telling a clear narrative to the NHS to align understanding of the its role.
  2. Setting out the organisational competencies that a WCC organisation will need to demonstrate
  3. Developing an assurance system to hold commissioners to account and to reward performance and development
  4. Putting in place a framework of support and development to help commissioners achieve WCC.  The shape and form of this framework is being developed in partnership. A working group has developed initial proposals for its structure which include
  • Developing leadership and organisational development
  • Work around the strategic element of world class commissioning
  • Demonstrating world class performance through exemplar PCTs
  • Creating a portfolio of choices for PCTs to access to develop skills and a collective understanding of world class
  • Sharing and applying learning and expertise through an information portal and learning networks

Transition

Many children and young people now survive into adult life with complex conditions that previously would have been fatal in infancy.

Transition: getting it right for young people, published in March 2006, is a good practice guide which shows how the handover from young people’s to adult services should be planned and managed as a process.

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