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Working better together with the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector

Sector Support

3rd March 2015

www.cornwall.gov.uk/cornwalltca

Objectives for today

A. What segments of the sector to prioritise for support and why?

B. Identify priority themes for support, i.e. health, youth etc.

C. Identify means of support, i.e. public sector commissioned, self-help etc.


Project timeline

April 2015 Project begins

July 2015

Team and initial plan in place

December 2015

Project review

January 2016

Steering Group agrees next phase

R4. Sector Support

SS3. Sector Support

‘Blueprint’

SS2. Business

case for funding

of Sector

Support by

commissioners

SS4.

Options

Appraisa

l

SS1. County

needs

(people,

VCSE sector,

Growth

Programme,

wider public

sector )

Current

state

research on

the VCSE:

‘TCA Sector

Support

Report‘

and

TCA

‘Impact

Assessment’

SS5b.

Sourcing

strategy SS8b.

Contract or

grant

agreement

June July March April May February September August October

‘New model’

Cornwall

Executive

Group – 17/2

VCSE

Annual

Summit – 19/4

Cornwall

Executive

Group – 11/4

Route B: commissioned service

Route A: self-funded service

SS6b.

Specificatio

n

SS7b.

Tender or

competitiv

e grant

process

SS5a. Business case

Key decisions for

sector

SS6a.Implementation

Plan

TCA research

including

support models

elsewhere

Expiry of

sector support

grant agreement

2016/17

Key: Name of

deliverabl

e

(including

reference)

Activity

Proposal for Work

Group/other

Sector Support Task and Finish Group will continue

to meet. Drafts will go to TCA Steering Group and

Blueprint and Options Appraisal will go to VCSE

Summit

If Sector Support is commissioned a group will

need to be formed excluding parties who

might be interested in bidding to deliver

Devolution as an enabler

Greater local control over the wider determinants of health and wellbeing

A single budget with a 5 year settlement

A single performance framework reflecting local

needs

Effective use of all local commissioning resources e.g.

health, social care and welfare Greater control over policy

setting e.g. Sugar taxes

Stronger public influence over decisions

Developing a flexible workforce through multi-disciplinary professional development

Devolution to

Cornwall and

devolution to

local

communities

(‘double

devolution’)

Health and care integration programme

Transport &

connectivity

Employment

& skills

Public safety

Education

Environment

Housing Economy

Community

Progress to date:

Programme team

Project milestones

Strategic plan in progress

Start well, live well, age well

New models of care

Integrated commissioning

Provider integration

Reformed governance Strategic plan for the future

integration of health and social care: How can devolution enhance the impact of integration and reduce health inequalities?


Current sector support and priorities


VCSE sector support

Level 5 - Large ‘nationally significant’ VCSE operating in Cornwall (e.g. RNLI, National Trust,

Eden, ShelterBox)

Level 2 – Small/Medium VCSE organisations

(e.g. Community Halls, Befriending Schemes)

Level 1 - Small ‘Grassroot’ Community VCSE Groups/Organisations (e.g. Memory Cafes, Sports Clubs etc., new Social Enterprises)

Preliminary Level - Possible New start up VCSE org’s, Non formal ‘Community Action’, Informal carers

Level 4 – Large VCSE Cornwall orgs (e.g. Age UK Cornwall & IoS, Pentreath, CA Cornwall)

Level 3 - Medium-Large Cornwall VCSE Organisations (e.g. Day Centres,, Cornwall Youth Work Partnership )

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Number of organisations/

groups in Cornwall

Level 5: 90

Level 4: 271

Level 3: 905

Level 2: 1,086

Level 1: 2,308

Preliminary level: 1,500

(plus 55,000 informal carers)


VCSE sector research (Transform 2015)

• Key challenges they highlighted all related to change and maintaining their ability to deliver their services:

Difficulty in recruiting and retaining volunteers/supporters

Difficulty in recruiting and retaining quality staff members

Issues with maintenance and size of building/facilities

Keeping up-to-date with legislation/government changes





Prioritising the needs of Cornwall



• 45% of organisations interviewed continue to operate in the broad social care, welfare, health and wellbeing area (including education and providing services to pre-school children, school aged children and young people).

• Reflecting their local, community focus, nearly a third of these VCSE organisations in both 2015 and 2013 said their main clients were people living in (their) particular geographic area. Similar proportions also mentioned pre-school children, school age children or young people.




Support priorities (not workshopped)



• Most important skills areas required in the next five years:

Financial management skills (72% saying important or very important);

Safeguarding (69%);

Leadership skills (67%);

Communication skills (62%); and

Collaboration, negotiation and partnership working skills (58%).






To summarise the sector

• 205 organisations in survey

• Service provision largely unchanged

• 20% reduction in turnover

• Tentative - 15% reduction in organisations

• Single most important source of finance: 15 % public sector grants 7% public sector contracts

• Most active in: 45% Health and Wellbeing 32% Local geographic


To summarise sector support

• 50% of survey recognised support organisations

• 20% had received support over last 5 years

• 75% receiving support say very or extremely useful

• 27% would be prepared to pay

• One to one or small groups most popular

• Finance, safeguarding, marketing/comms, training and skills, collaboration


• Paying for it – Building the business case


Building the business case

• Do Nothing

• Via Cornwall Deal – Cornwall Executive Group

• Top Slice Commissioning

• Build collaboration/engagement into commissions

• Peer Support from the sector

• Pro Bono support from private/public sector

• ESF – especially the Building VCSE open call

• Online support (low cost options)

• Discretionary rate relief funds the Voice


Workshops

A. Sector segmentation

B. Priority themes

C. Means of support

Documents

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