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What can we do differently?

What can we do differently?. Working together to develop local community services. Welcome. Aim of the day.

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What can we do differently?

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  1. What can we do differently? Working together to develop local community services

  2. Welcome

  3. Aim of the day • To learn how to improve children’s outcomes through the local authority, parents and the Voluntary and Community Sector working together to deliver children’s centres or children’s centre services.

  4. Local Authority Perspective on community run services

  5. 4Children National Programme Lessons in working together

  6. Two year national programme • Who have we worked with? • 20 Local Authorities and VCS lead agencies • Why? • To discover barriers faced by the local VCS in being commissioned for children’s centres and their services. • What have we done? • National survey on commissioning barriers • Rolling survey on attitudes to barriers • 5 provider surveys • Training manual for VCS children centre managers • 5 focus conversation workshops • Strategic report on mutuals • 21 activity workshops

  7. We learned that Partnership overcomes barriers if: • Allow time for acceptance of ‘blank page’ approach • Agree a clear message and repeat! • Get decision makers and participants to ‘tell it as it is’ • Build consensus on what the challenge is before discussing ‘solutions’ • Use balance of ‘structured’ and ‘open’ conversation methods • Challenge and celebrate commissioning/ procurement practice Process Content

  8. Q & A Panel

  9. Focused conversation

  10. Feedback and discussion

  11. Networking and Lunch

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