Children's Commissioning
The Children's Integrated Commissioning Hub (CICH) provides co-ordination and collaboration for the commissioning of services related to children and young people's health and wellbeing. It works to align and pool commissioning resources on behalf of NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board, and Nottinghamshire County Council’s Public Health to improve outcomes for children and young people in Nottinghamshire.
The CICH was established in 2013 in Nottinghamshire to:
- prevent fragmentation of services and increase efficiency
- prevent duplication of work and provide best use of resources
- integrate approaches and embed best practice across all partners
- provide a systems approach to planning and commissioning
- enable children, young people and families to have a voice in the services they need
- improve outcomes and life chances for children and young people.
What are the priorities for the CICH?
The CICH works across a number of areas with responsibility for commissioning a range of services on behalf of the NHS and local authority organisations including:
- children and young people’s mental health including; Child and Adolescent Mental Health services (CAMHS), Mental Health Support teams, perinatal and infant mental health
- health of children in care
- health of children in youth justice
- children’s public health services including; health visiting, school nursing, family nurse partnership, adolescent sexual health, teenage pregnancy, Schools Health Hub and best start in life
- expert support for obesity, weight management, smoking, sexual health and domestic abuse.
Further Information
For information about all public health services and how to access them, visit our health and wellbeing page.
Information on a range of local services and activities for children and families is available on the Notts Help Yourself website.
For more information on the CICH telephone 0115 9772676 or email childrens.commissioning@nottscc.gov.uk
