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This report outlines the changes to Commissioning Group to consolidate and enhance commissioning capacity within London Borough of Barnet to ensure Commissioning Directors, and their respective portfolio, has the right strategic and technical capacity. Where Commissioning Directors previously had no direct reports; the restructure has resulted in the creation of teams for each commissioning portfolio reporting directly to Commissioning Directors.

The restructure ensures the requirement for a more integrated commissioning approach by realigning commissioning functions across delivery units into the new Commissioning Group structures, referred to in the Chief Executive’s senior management restructure agreed by General Functions Committee in October 2014.

As a result, the council has strengthened its central commissioning capacity to ensure there is a focus on the development of detailed commissions and reducing the pressures on agency spend in the Commissioning Group. The implementation date for this restructure was 7 April 2015.