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Commissioning Compass sources and course status
Source versions, available teaching text, and the Teachable material still to compare.
What is available here
These 38 chapters cover 38 of the 49 topics listed in the original Teachable course: six introductory topics, plus definitions, questions, factors, and approaches for all eight aspects. The approach pages also contain the full 2023 pre-reading sections, including examples and references.
Sources and versions
- 0. Eight aspects of commissioning.pptx
- Source last modified 25 June 2025. Selected teaching text from slides 4–87 and 99. Internal template instructions, blank slides, contact slide, speaker notes, and draft appendices are excluded. The complete PowerPoint is not offered for download.
- 2023-06-05 Pre-reading - Introducing and Implementing Strategic Commissioning Approaches 1 - 8.docx
- Dated 5 June 2023. The eight approach sections from the original pre-reading, including its practice examples and references. This is the 2023 adult social care source; it has not been compared with the later Teachable lesson bodies.
The Local Government Association’s original strengths-based commissioning toolkit page links to the earlier pre-reading and supporting material.
2026-11-06 the PSTA Commissioning Compass reading sources v0.01 BT.txt
Teachable material still to compare
No Teachable lesson body has yet been compared in full against these source pages. The number of embedded videos, images, and downloads in the course has not yet been established. All media and attached downloads need checking, including those in chapters with text available here.
The following eleven catalogue lessons don’t yet have equivalent local source chapters. The eight case-study and equality lessons may contain later additions. The 2023 examples on approach pages don’t establish what those later lessons contain.
- Introduction: The Commissioning Compass is still developing
- Aspect of Commissioning 1: Whole system design: Case studies and Equality and equity considerations
- Aspect of Commissioning 2: Relationships and organisation across the system: Case studies and Equality and equity considerations
- Aspect of Commissioning 3: Capacity, capability, and confidence: Case studies and Equality and equity considerations
- Aspect of Commissioning 4: citizen, place, and outcome centred: Case studies and Equality and equity considerations
- Aspect of Commissioning 5: Information, insight, and innovation: Case studies and Equality and equity considerations
- Aspect of Commissioning 6: Making room to make a difference: Case studies and Equality and equity considerations
- Aspect of Commissioning 7: Commissioning process: Case studies and Equality and equity considerations
- Aspect of Commissioning 8: Models and tactics: Case studies and Equality and equity considerations
- Resources and acknowledgements: Get in touch and keep up to date
- Resources and acknowledgements: The original commissioning compass: the Local Government Association's 'Strategic commissioning options appraisal tool'
Acknowledgements
June 2025 teaching template, slide 99
Acknowledgements
This project was designed and developed by the Public Service Transformation Academy for Care and Health Improvement Programme (CHIP), now referred to as Partners in Care and Health (PCH), which is jointly run by the Local Government Association and Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS).
It was produced by RedQuadrant and the Public Service Transformation Academy initially between 2021 and 2023 for a social care audience. Since then it has been rewritten to meet the needs of multi-sector commissioners by Fiona Fleming of the PSTA.
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