Dorset county council
Anne Salter, head of strategic planning, commissioning and performance, Dorset county council
It's a wide agenda. I lead five teams: planning and performance, commissioning, contracts, business and admin support. All our work is to narrow the gap between those who succeed and those who don't.
I've learnt that pathways for discussion and governance are crucial to get anything done. Engage the key players rather than work in isolation.
So in developing the children's trust, I've set up a new trust board for strategic commissioning with three sub-boards - commissioning programmes, service development providers and planning and performance.
At the moment the Commissioning Support Programme is working with us to firm up NHS/local authority joint commissioning. We're focusing on the Early Years workforce, helping children maintain a healthy weight, and preventing risk-taking behaviour. If you involve the families of children and young people you do find solutions. I never forget that we can make a difference to individual children.