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Chief Exec’s Update or The things that keep me awake at night!. Richard Caulfield Chief Executive Voluntary Sector North West. Current issues . Cuts Big Society Localism NHS Reform Public Health Service Equalities Agenda Big versus small? Specialist Infrastructure ‘Nationals’
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Chief Exec’s Update or The things that keep me awake at night! Richard Caulfield Chief Executive Voluntary Sector North West
Current issues • Cuts • Big Society • Localism • NHS Reform • Public Health Service • Equalities Agenda • Big versus small? • Specialist Infrastructure • ‘Nationals’ • Geographies • Accountability • LEP’s • Oh – and managing an organisation
CUTS • 20th October – reading between the lines • Already underway? • How much and how bad? • Retaining Capacity • Retaining the right capacity in the right places!
Big Society • A brand with no substance? • Community Organisers • Big Society Network • ‘Communities First’ • My Square Mile
Big Society • Health • Foundation Trusts = Social Enterprises • Education • Free Schools/Academies • Policing • Specials receive Council Tax rebate
Localism, Localism, Localism • Where to for equalities? • How local is local? • What is the future of LSPs? • Great Opportunity? • LEP’s not the best example!
NHS Reform • Responding to the white paper • Challenges created by GP commissioning • Opportunities for ‘social enterprise’ • Implications of ‘any willing provider’ • How do we deal with a public sector back lash?
Public Health Service • Is ring-fencing good? • How much will it be? • NW Transition Group • What should our key messages be?
Equalities Agenda • Slipping off the radar quickly! • Fit with localism? • What next for the act? • Rediscover campaigning?
Big versus Small • Large National providers: part of same sector? • Role of larger providers nurturing smaller groups? • How does it fit with localism? • Current contracting models
Specialist Infrastructure • How can it survive? • Who will pay? • How do we protect the ‘legacy’ of those that close?
Nationals (Infrastructure) • What more can we get out of them? • Where do they add value and where do they interfere? • How should they rationalise?
Geographies • Local Integrated Services (LIS) • Neighbourhoods • GP Commissioning • Local Authorities • LEPS • Sub Regional • Regional • Northern? • National • European
Accountability • Evidencing reach • Credibility facing ‘both’ ways • What is your true mandate? • Democratic accountability?
Local Enterprise Partnerships • How does the sector prove its worth and get to the table? • What is that worth to the sector? • How do we work with the private sector? • What resources and power will they have? • What tools do we have for influence?
Just about Managing?Or leading not pleading? • Ever changing budgets • Redundancies • Short-term vacancies • Providing vision in an unclear world • Realistic? Too pessimistic or over optimistic?
So What? • Anything missing? • Any one thing stick out? • What support do you need? • Who is best placed to provide it? • How can we help with peer support?