Transcript Childcare and Social Enterprise

Focus Group
VCS & Children’s Centres: Barriers and Benefits
John Alwyine-Mosely
Early Years Adviser
[email protected]
07771812951
Aims
Explore through activities and discussions the barriers:
– the Voluntary and Community Sector(VCS) has in managing
children centres or delivering their services
– Local Authority and Children’s Centre managers have in the
involvement, engagement and commissioning of the VCS
in the delivery of children’s centres services.
Session Outline
Welcomes and Outline
LA and VCS Context
iIce-breaker
4Children Context
Attitude survey
Why?
Delivery Models Introduction
Break
Delivery Models Presentation
Forcefield Analysis
Attitude survey
Questions and Answers
Last words and next steps
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LA and VCS Context
Issues and context for the
project in this local authority
Activity 1: Jargon Ice breaker
Introduce yourself to each other and come back
with the two you want most clarified
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Commissioning
Public Service
Private Sector
Public Sector
Voluntary Sector
Accountability
Governance
Social Enterprise
Co-Production
Mutual
Organisational Forms
Meeting a social need
Unincorporated association, Charitable Trusts
Making profits to meet a social need
Community Interest Company, Company limited by guarantee
Participation (User, Community, Employee)
Community Benefit Society, Co-operative, Mutual
See Factsheet Two
4Children Context
National Programme
Activity 2 – part 1: Attitude survey
Attitude survey, which will
be repeated at the end of
the session.
And will be followed up by
Spring 2012 with a
electronic survey
What the barriers mean...
• St Brendan Community Support
• Provided activities for local kids for the children’s centre
• Annual grant supported by fees and partnerships
• Moved to social enterprise to win contracts
• Lost it's grass roots as chased the money
• Capacity and quality undermined by tougher contracts and
competition
• Children's Centre looses local links and looks 'expensive'
• Local Authority forced to look for national providers
Activity 3: Why?
Boardstorm:
• Why is the VCS not running
most children centres or
their services?
Dotocracy:
• Vote for top reason(s) from
your sector’s perspective
Cause or Symptom:
• Five whys discussion
Delivery Models Exercise
• Discussion of what to look for
in the models:
• Co-operative
Commission
• Co-operative Trust
• Then work with your fact sheet
and present back issues
Activity 4: Group Presentation
Work from the factsheets to prepare a short
presentation
a) Briefly explain its origins
b) Outline how it might help VCS involvement
c) How you could use it here
Activity 6: Open Space Conversation
From what you have heard from today who wants to
write a ‘How do we’ Question?
Who wants to sponsor that question?
Stand up and read it and everyone else listen to the
question that interests you
Now go to the sponsor of the question that
interests you – if eight at the table go to another table
Discuss and take notes
When asked feed back two lessons learned and one
unanswered question from the discussion
Activity 1: part 2: Attitude survey
Questions and Answers
Next Steps
• Action plan report
• Work with task group to plan January workshop
• February regional showcase