Capacity to Change

Commissioning Strategy for Learning Disability Services

As part of our Capacity to Change series we have now produced a further report following on from our work on commissioning services for people with learning disabilities. You can read the full report here.

Capacity for Change Learning Disability [178Kb]

Commissioning Service Changes for People with Learning Disabilities

Extensive work has been carried out in local areas across Scotland in partnership with people with learning disabilities, carers and service providers to establish a vision and direction for services to support people with learning disabilities and their families and carers. In order to turn that vision in to a reality, up-to-date and comprehensive evidence-based data about individuals, local populations, needs and future demands, along with current service provision, is required.

As a means of capturing the required data, the JIT has worked with staff from the Health Directorates, local partnerships and SCLD to produce an online workbook, which is designed to inform the development of joint commissioning strategies and capacity planning for learning disability services by local partnerships.

Download the Commissioning Effective Services for People with Learning Disabilities workbook [3Mb]

JIT Commissioning for change Workbook Tables [1Mb]

The workbook contains a series of templates which, once customised to suit the local area and populated, will provide partnerships with a framework to estimate future need and demand for services, given population changes, along with financial and workforce data. The dataset in the Workbook is also intended to provide for service analysis and option appraisal in support of decision-making about improvements in care pathways and service delivery.

Assistance with the local application of the workbook is available from JIT by request. You can download a copy of our Developing Commissioning Strategies paper to find out more about how JIT may be able to provide tailored support to your partnership.

We hope you find the workbook useful and welcome comments on its further development.

Using the workbook

You'll find guidance on how to use the workbook on page 10 of the dynamic pdf that you can download from the right hand side of this page. The dynamic pdf file provides brief background comment on each table in the linked Excel file (which can be downloaded) and brief instructions on the data to be inserted in each of the Excel file worksheets. Alternatively, contact JIT for further support. Further information about the context for using the workbook, as well as the purpose of the workbook, can also be found in the introduction to the workbook.