Working with the Third Sector

Philip BakerAssistant Chief Executive

Objectives•Enhance what individuals and communities can do for themselves•Reduce demand for services•Break dependency

Focus•Offer choice, control and personal support•Help troubled families to deal with the causes of problems •Support independence•Enable improvement in health and wellbeing•Strengthen preventative and community based services

Objectives•Create the conditions for growth and enterprise•Grow and help local businesses thrive•Ensure local people have the skills they need to succeed

Focus•Improve infrastructure - roads and broadband•Improve skills and qualifications of children and adults•Use our purchasing power to support business

Objectives•Maximise the value from public sector finance•Maximise operational efficiency and effectiveness •Services meet the needs of local communities•Maximise resources focused on front line services

Focus•Systematic commissioning of services/partnership working•Minimise waste and improve recycling rates•Best use of physical assets - Agile and SPACES•Better, cheaper access to services through on-line, self service and service hubs

Objectives•Keep vulnerable children and adults safe from harm•Intervene early to achieve permanent alternative solutions for children who cannot stay with their families•Reduce road accidents and casualties

Focus•Proportionate, timely and multi-agency response to safeguarding of children and adults•Reduced time taken for children to be adopted

How we work with the sector• Support to Councils for Voluntary Services• Planning services and engagement on

County Council’s plans• Service delivery partner• Building community resilience

A competitive approach that…• Supports joint investment creating a unified

funding pot• Is outcomes focused - not outputs

The Commissioning prospectus

• Streamlined and proportionate - easier for smaller local organisations to bid alongside national organisations

• Transparent - open to all groups and organisations to bid

• Opportunity for growth, efficiency-focused service redesign and collaboration

• Increased flexibility within the competitive process

Benefits

Building ResilienceThe Future?