The Iriss ethical commissioning programme is focussed on supporting implementation of the ethical commissioning and procurement principles at both local and national level.
Our core projects are:
This programme is part funded by the Adult Social Care Ethical Commissioning Policy Team in the Scottish Government.
This report is intended to be used as a guide for commissioners and others to better understand how to implement the ethical commissioning and procurement principles, support improvement of commissioning practice at local level, and highlight ongoing solutions for the future.
Following the recommendations by the Independent Review of Adult Social Care, the Scottish Government worked with a range of partners to develop ethical commissioning and procurement principles.
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I have a confession to make, I am a commissioning geek. For over a decade I've written, argued, researched, lobbied, moved words around in guidance documents, given many conference speeches, and read (and written) some of the most boring reports known to humankind in pursuit of finding out why commissioning seems hard to define, and even harder to do.
