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Total Place in Birmingham

Explore collaboration, service innovation, delivery scrutiny, and efficiency in engaging with public sector priorities. Mechanisms for engagement, building on successful practices, and facilitating total place strategies for the third sector. Identify priorities, drive efficiency, and advocate for sector involvement.

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Total Place in Birmingham

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  1. Total Place in Birmingham Principles of Third Sector Engagement

  2. 1: Engaging with Public Sector Priorities We must contribute to: • Discussion: are we agreed on the problem we’re trying to solve? • Service Innovation: what should the priorities be? • Service Design: what works best for our citizens & service users? • Service Delivery: comprehensive and client-focused methods of delivery • Service Scrutiny: what improvements need to happen, and how can we make them?

  3. 1: Engaging with Public Sector Priorities We can facilitate: • Collaborative Enquiry: what are service users saying – and not saying? • Service Savings: to deliver better services for less, don’t slice us – speak to us!

  4. 2: Building On What Works Make “joining-up” more than just a cliché: • Neighbourhood Management: support for local third sector activity & community empowerment • Commissioning: services that are better & smarter first, cheaper second

  5. 3: Mechanisms for Engagement These need to be created and supported – they won’t just “happen”. Existing opportunities: • Third Sector Assembly: thematic focus through the networks, with clear recommendations coming forward • Local Picture: community networks & groups, Neighbourhood Forums, Guide Neighbourhoods This requires: • Public Sector Commitment: meet us more than half-way. Cross-sector conversations leading to cross-sector solutions • Third Sector Commitment: don’t disengage – we need to be prepared to deliver tough messages, but we need to be here when the smoke clears

  6. 4: “Total Place” for the Third Sector? Being on the front foot with our own client-focused efficiencies: • Cuts: not a question of “if”, but “when”: how do we gear up, and how do we respond? • Collaboration: beyond winning contracts – needs to be as much about making savings, streamlining services, sharing overheads, supporting personalisation agenda • Mutual support: small grass-roots groups, volunteers, fledgling community organisations • New ways of working: make full use of communication channels – so everyone is involved • Lobbying and campaigning: never more crucial to: ADVOCATE – AGITATE - INNOVATE

  7. NEXT STEPS: • Write-up & distribution of findings from today’s event • Feedback through Be Birmingham channels • Input into Total Place learning evaluation led by INLOGOV • Continue and strengthen the links into Total Place themes (& beyond) – ensure themes not represented today are committed to third sector • “Hot Topic” sessions for each Assembly Network to be arranged as soon as possible • CLEAR MESSAGE: We require specific and clear involvement of third sector at all levels – not optional, essential!

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