CCPS welcomes Audit Scotland’s performance audit into Commissioning Social Care Services
Posted on Friday 08 July 2011
CCPS welcomes the announcement from Audit Scotland that they are to undertake a performance audit into the effective and strategic commissioning of social care services, on behalf of the Accounts Commission and the Auditor General.
Since the Local Government Committee’s investigation into commissioning and procurement practice in Scotland, to which CCPS gave evidence in February 2010, CCPS has repeatedly expressed concerns about commissioning practice and procedure, and encouraged the need for detailed independent scrutiny to be undertaken into the range of procurement exercises across Scotland.
CCPS is pleased to support this study by Audit Scotland, and to be represented on the associated Project Advisory Group by CCPS Director Annie Gunner Logan, on behalf of CCPS members.
This investigation into procurement practice is timely, after the launch last week of the final report from the Christie Commission, where CCPS’ concerns about effective commissioning were also reflected, with the resulting recommendation by the Commission that public sector procurement needs to be rebalanced in favour of effective and positive outcomes for service users and their families, and away from consideration solely on cost efficiencies.