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Collaborative & Strategic Working with the Voluntary & Community Sector

Collaborative & Strategic Working with the Voluntary & Community Sector. Localism. Collaborative & Strategic Working. Empowering communities, increasing accountability & scrutiny – how? Camden has over 2,000 organisations.

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Collaborative & Strategic Working with the Voluntary & Community Sector

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  1. Collaborative & Strategic Working with the Voluntary & Community Sector Localism

  2. Collaborative & Strategic Working Empowering communities, increasing accountability & scrutiny – how? • Camden has over 2,000 organisations. • Sector strongly committed to ‘bottom up’ & empowerment. It is a gateway to communities.

  3. Collaborative & Strategic Working Community right to buy: • Key in to existing organisations. • Moratorium with a realistic time scale. • Potential to underpin the sustainability of the sector and support innovation.

  4. Collaborative & Strategic Working Diversify the supply of public services: Rights To Provide: Employers accept suitable proposals from staff who want to take over and run services. Collaborative working with the voluntary and community sector?

  5. Collaborative & Strategic Working Community a right of challenge to run local authority services • Only possible with strong community activity • Potential for more flexible services – as opposed to ‘one size fits all’. • Greater opportunities for community control and delivery of services.

  6. Collaborative & Strategic Working Community Budgets – pooling of budgets to tackle cross cutting issues • Commissioning decisions taken as close as possible to the point of need – community commissioning? • Contradiction with push for ‘fewer and larger contracts’?

  7. Collaborative & Strategic Working • Focus on outcomes • Welcome development in relation to ‘people services’ • Payment by results – does this contradict the push to localism and local service delivery?

  8. Collaborative & Strategic Working Key Debating Point Localism - Cuts in public spending OR The best use of resources – no matter what the financial picture?

  9. Collaborative & Strategic Working Simone Hensby Voluntary Action Camden 293-299 Kentish Town Road London NW5 2TJ Tel: 020 72846550 Fax: 020 72846551

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