Archived decisions

Appendix I

PLAN SCOPING THE WORK REQUIRED FOR THE CHILDREN'S TRUST 2ND STAGE

DATE: July 2006

PROPOSED WORK/TASKS

DEPENDENCIES/

LINKS

BY WHOM

TIME-SCALES

RESOURCE IMPLICATIONS

RISKS

COMPLETED

Y/N

Identify solicitor to act on behalf of all PCT Commissioners

PCT's agreement

JN / AK

By June 2005

Legal costs

Failure to get an agreement to use a single solicitor.

Y

Review Stage 1

Strategy Group

By June 2005

Within existing children's Trust Resources.*

None

Y

Review Section 31 agreement and amend as appropriate

· Re-structuring of Health and CSD

· Developments of joint framework for commissioning

Stage 2 Group

CSD and PCT Solicitors (as appropriate)

July 2006 - July 2007

Legal costs

Delay and dispute

Map all partners CAMHS commissioning costs

Information being available from all partners.

Treasurer's consultants with all partners.

January 2006

Purchasing consultancy time

Information is not available.

Y

Detailed mapping of existing CAMHS SLAs and costs within all PCTs and CSD.

The fit with the re-organisation of health and CSD.

Finance leads in each partner agency.

September 2006

Finance time being available to prioritise this task.

Finance time - information being available.

Agree new pooled budget ; accounting procedures and rules (spend or budget - actual amounts; inflationary increases etc)

Clear budgets within each of the agencies.

Finance leads in each partner agency.

April 2007

Finance time being available to prioritise this task.

Finance time - information being available.

Disagreement

Risks associated with inadequate budget and overspend.

Confirm Service specification based.

Above 2 tasks being completed.

Stage 2 group

June 2007

Establish a new Governance structure for the children's Trust and scheme of delegation.

All partners to agree

Project group for stage 2

By Aug 2007

Failure to agree

To establish an infrastructure for the new children's Trust which ensures compliance with all partners requirements and Children's Services Planning Structures.

All partners to agree

Project group for stage 2

By Aug 2007

Failure to agree

Risk sharing arrangements and clinical governance issues to be addressed within the new S31 agreement and children's Trust Structure.

All partners to agree

Project group for stage 2

By Aug 2007

Failure to agree

Agreed S31 for stage 2

All partners to agree

Project group for stage 2

Sept 2007

Ratification and signing from all partner organisations.

All Partners

Partners governing bodies.

Sept 2007 - Dec 2007