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Health Equity North:The contribution of the Voluntary,
Community, Faith and Social Enterprise Sector
Warren EscadaleVoluntary Sector North West
About VSNW
• Regional Voices NW Partner• DoH VCS Strategic Partner• Policy areas: Health, Economy, & VCS levers of
change• Health Equity North Inquiry • Membership• Health & Social Care Network (over 500 contacts)• Consulting on a strategy to get VCS going
Voluntary sector in the North
Significant resource for change:• 71,000 + VCS groups• Income of c.£4.8bn (2011/12)• 175,000 employees• 4.2m volunteer once a month• 6.4 volunteer once a year
under £10k £10k-£100k £100k-£1m £1m-£10m £10m+ -
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60,000
VCS in the North by income (2011/12) source NCVO Almanac
Engaging communities: understand what’s working & what’s not
• Engage the engaged to engage (Community Asset Investigators)
• Gather VCS evidence (East Cheshire CVS, Comparing Apples with Oranges: 2014)
• Future proof your evidence gathering (STAR - LSE & Health Foundation)
• Encourage larger VCS agencies to open their databases to collaborators (Age UK Lancashire)
NB Turn this into see-able action. Get groups on board.
Work the world of work• Engage with the Work Programme – challenge how it
links to health inequality; use H&WBs.• Talk to your LEP:– Ask how health and social care groups are engaging in
‘Building Better Opportunities’– Encourage them to think about wellbeing; offer support
developing measures - A ‘wellbeing premium’ could be included as part of the funding.
– Ask them what their Community Grants Programme will look like; can you match?
NB. Make success measure wellbeing not jobs.
As providers
• Build in codesign/coproduction• Key role in prevention work, linked to holistic
delivery / wellbeing.• Connect silos and funding streams
We need to change
• We need to champion Living Wage• We need to make sure that
volunteering ≠ job substitution.• We need to start a race to the top – ‘community
value’• We need to transform our VCS infrastructure
levers• We need an effective workforce strategy:– run alongside a public sector workforce strategy– use light-touch co-location and exchange schemes
As lobbyers/campaigners
• Use the Social Value Act to lobby for maximum social value from public sector spend, including funding of local VCSE organisations and investing in local services.
• Advocate on behalf of communities and equalities groups to make sure no-one gets left behind as economy begins to grow.
• Making the case for health inequality and wellbeing as part of Devolution discussions
• Unleashing community potential .... as part of sustainable PSR
What is VSNW doing?
• Social Prescribing – why? Change local relationships, drive +ve sector development
• Exploring future of volunteering• Revive NW Social Value Foundation?• Link large VCS providers to communities• Devolution debates – with emphasis on ‘good devolution’
and brokering VCS strategic engagement• Looking to work with NW Healthwatch on devolution
agenda• Championing communities - Thriving Places campaign &
economic role of VCS.
Warren Escadale, [email protected]
@VSNWEscadale
Regional Voiceswww.regionalvoices.org
@regionalvoice