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Public Services and the Voluntary S ector

Public Services and the Voluntary S ector. Ruth Breidenbach Roe Partnerships and Public Services National Council for Voluntary Organisations. This presentation will cover…. Public services landscape What are the key challenges and risks? Opportunities: how can you deliver in this context?.

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Public Services and the Voluntary S ector

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  1. Public Services and the Voluntary Sector Ruth Breidenbach Roe Partnerships and Public Services National Council for Voluntary Organisations

  2. This presentation will cover… • Public services landscape • What are the key challenges and risks? • Opportunities: how can you deliver in this context?

  3. The public services landscape

  4. The public services landscape • Cuts • Fragmentation

  5. Open Public Services • “Opening public services to competition and providing more freedom to innovate will improve the choices available to service users, as well as delivering better value for money for the taxpayer.” • “Empowering all potential providers, from whichever sector, with the right to propose new ways to deliver services, and linking payment to results so that providers are free to innovate and eliminate waste.” • “looking at how to enable a level playing field for all independent providers, as well as addressing barriers that are particularly problematic for smaller private, voluntary and charitable enterprises.”

  6. Challenges in public service delivery • Large contracts • Squeeze on pricing • Disproportionate requirements • Spot purchasing • Payment by Results

  7. Opportunities • Influencing commissioning • Social Value Act • Partnerships and collaboration

  8. Influencing and shaping commissioning

  9. Case Studies • BACA Leicestershire: delivers services to young people trafficked to the UK, or seeking asylum. Identified that the council’s approach to commissioning specialist services doesn’t work. • ‘Connected Care.’ Turning Point: developed a model of community-led commissioning for health and social care services.

  10. Social Value Act 2012 • Article 3 of the Bill states that: • 'The authority must consider— • (a) how what is proposed to be procured might improve the economic, social and environmental well-being of the relevant area, and • (b) how, in conducting the process of procurement, it might act with a view to securing that improvement'. • Article 6 of the Bill state that • 'The authority must consider under subsection (3)(b) only matters that are relevant to what is proposed to be procured and, in doing so, must consider the extent to which it is proportionate in all the circumstances to take those matters into account'.

  11. Case studies • Blue Sky Development: Social enterprise delivering ground maintenance and recycling, but only employs ex-offenders • United Response: Run a café a York’s council offices which also provides job training for people with learning disabilities.

  12. Consortia • Response to larger contracts • Formalised partnership • Different models and governance arrangements • Need time, funding, and good relationships

  13. Case studies • City and Hackney Together: consortium of health and wellbeing organisations. • Greater Together: consortium of youth organisations in Lancashire • Safer and Stronger Cornwall

  14. Any Questions? Ruth Breidenbach-Roe Partnerships and Public Services, NCVO Ruth.Breidenbach-Roe@ncvo.org.uk

  15. Additional resources • Subcontracting, Consortia and Partnerships: http://knowhownonprofit.org/funding/service/service-delivery • NCVO public services resources on KnowHowNonProfit http://knowhownonprofit.org/funding/service • The Road Ahead, 2013 http://blogs.ncvo.org.uk/2013/11/14/5-minute-policy-manager-blog-november/

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