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The Big Society: Opportunity or Threat

Labour Government Legacy. Third SectorPartnershipStrategic investmentPolitical profileGrowth in public support

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The Big Society: Opportunity or Threat

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    1. The Big Society: Opportunity or Threat Pete Alcock University of Birmingham

    3. Grants and Contracts 2000/1 – 2007/8

    4. General Election Campaign Consensus – welcome third sector…. Public service delivery Community engagement Compact Social Investment Bank

    5. General Election Campaign Concerns in campaigning by third sector About impact of recession About public spending cuts Ambiguity over Conservative’s Big Society agenda

    6. Coalition Government – Big Society back… May 18 – PM and DPM ‘Big Society at the heart of public sector reform…’ July 19 – PM Liverpool Big Society speech – ‘my great passion’

    7. Nat Wei – management consultant, Christian, Chinese community, set up ‘Teach First’Nat Wei – management consultant, Christian, Chinese community, set up ‘Teach First’

    8. Cabinet Office work programme quickly established, dropping all previous commitments – see belowCabinet Office work programme quickly established, dropping all previous commitments – see below

    9. Building the Big Society New policy agenda for OCS to deliver Big Society Easier to set-up and run charities, social enterprises and voluntary organisations – mutuals taskforce, new Compact Public sector workers to create employee-owned co-operatives - right to provide, right to challenge

    10. Building the Big Society Remove ‘red tape’ – market prices for public sector contracts (‘level playing field’) – OCS/BIS taskforce Big Society Bank – from dormant bank accounts (up to £400m) National Citizens Service for 16 year olds (pilot schemes in summer 2011) Big Society Day – workplace volunteering (from civil service to civic service)

    11. Building the Big Society Train new generation of 5000 community organisers, to become self-funding Devolve power to local government – and drive down to neighbourhoods and communities Four ‘vanguard communities’ – [Liverpool], Windsor and Maidenhead, Sutton, Eden Valley (Cumbria)

    12. Building the Big Society But other commitments dropped Futurebuilders Capacitybuilders Commission for the Compact Or cut OCS Strategic partners

    13. Big Society Discourses Big Society website ResPublica support Nat Wei – Coral Reef analogy sea bed – public services coral growth – social and private enterprises fish – citizens and communities

    14. Big Society Rhetoric More than Third Sector reform – a legacy to match the ‘welfare state’! Mending ‘Broken Britain’ Remixing the Welfare State

    15. Mending Broken Britain Community empowerment What are communities? Communities can be exclusive Engagement requires time and resources Engagement requires skills and knowledge Beware the ‘usual suspects’….

    16. Re-mixing the Welfare State Restructuring public services Cuts in public expenditure (25%) Private and third sector delivery Market contracting and surpluses Floating off worker co-operatives Can third sector replace public provision?

    17. Re-mixing the Welfare State Rethinking public services Co-production Outcome based commissioning Total place Personalisation What does this mean for Commissioners and TSOs?

    18. Third Sector Challenges Change in public contracting Cuts in public expenditure Loss of horizontal support Competition with private sector and third sector organisations Collaboration, subcontracting, and restructuring

    19. Public Sector Challenges Cuts in service budgets Competition in commissioning Partnership and collaboration Co-production and shift to front line planning Outcome focused planning

    20. Service Delivery Challenges Market failure Organisational failure Loss of third sector unity Loss of public mandate

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