Public service delivery

Charities often deliver services through funding agreements with a local authority, NHS Primary Care Trust or even a government department.

Though still a relatively new phenomenon, encouragement from government has made public service delivery and reform an increasingly common activity for charities.

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Health committee recommends joined-up social care commissioning
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Health committee recommends joined-up social care commissioning

Governance | 8 Feb 2012

The key to securing better outcomes for older people and other vulnerable groups is joined-up services, MPs on the Health Select Committee have said.

Metropolitan Police Wildlife Crime Unit rescued by charity
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Metropolitan Police Wildlife Crime Unit rescued by charity 1

Governance | Adam Martin | 31 Jan 2012

The World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) has saved the Metropolitan Police Wildlife Crime Unit in a groundbreaking £100,000 funding agreement.

Date set for Stroud NHS dispute hearing
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Date set for Stroud NHS dispute hearing

Finance | 31 Jan 2012

The legal hearing regarding the future of Gloucestershire's NHS services has been set for 8 February.

Welsh government suspends all funding to beleaguered equality charity
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Welsh government suspends all funding to beleaguered equality charity 1

Governance | Vibeka Mair | 27 Jan 2012

The Welsh government has suspended all public funding to the All Wales Ethnic Minority Association, until an investigation into alleged abuse of charitable funds is completed.

Big Society 'has led to misleading perceptions of big charities'
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Big Society 'has led to misleading perceptions of big charities' 3

Governance | Vibeka Mair | 13 Jan 2012

Large charities including NSPCC, RSPCA and the Red Cross have been talking about how to alter public perception that the Big Society is all about big charities guzzling up public sector contracts.

Public service delivery - five issues for boards to consider
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Public service delivery - five issues for boards to consider

Governance | 6 Jan 2012

Caroline Cooke from the Charity Commission outlines five points charities should consider when delivering public services as part of a consortium.

3SC launches Access to Work Programme in Wales with bespoke online portal
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3SC launches Access to Work Programme in Wales with bespoke online portal

IT | Kirsty Weakley | 28 Nov 2011

Public service delivery social enterprise 3SC has developed a bespoke web portal to enable its partner organisations to carry out needs-assessment reports for the Department for Work and Pensions.

Government 'must involve the sector in the Youth Contract'
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Government 'must involve the sector in the Youth Contract' 4

Finance | Kirsty Weakley | 25 Nov 2011

Umbrella bodies have welcomed the creation of the £1bn government fund to tackle youth unemployment but stress that the voluntary sector must be involved in its delivery.

Gareth Thomas, shadow minister for civil society
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Charity Commission, NCVO and Acevo should be consulted on social enterprise strategy, says Labour

Finance | Niki May Young | 24 Nov 2011

Amendments proposed by Labour to the Public Services (Social Value) Bill, which include a requirement for direct consultation with the Charity Commission, Acevo, NCVO and others, could provide greater safeguards for not-for-profit involvement in the public service contracting process.

'At your bidding' report from Navca and LGA
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Navca publishes guide to commissioning for trustees

Governance | Tania Mason | 3 Nov 2011

Navca and the Local Government Association have launched a free guide for charity trustees about commissioning and tendering for public services, as part of Trustees’ Week.

Hazel Blears MP
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Hurd hints at legal definition for social enterprise 2

Governance | Vibeka Mair | 27 Oct 2011

Former Communities Secretary Hazel Blears MP has called for a legal definition for social enterprises, while minister for civil society Nick Hurd has conceded that such a definition may be required.

Lord Hodgson of Astely Abbott
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Lord Hodgson tells umbrella bodies to set up charity contract consortia 2

Governance | Vibeka Mair | 20 Oct 2011

Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbott, president of NCVO and chair of the Red Tape Task Force, has called on umbrella bodies, such as NCVO, Acevo and Navca, to set up and manage charity consortia which can bid for public sector contracts.

Sector bodies join in criticism of Work Programme
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Sector bodies join in criticism of Work Programme

Finance | Tania Mason | 13 Oct 2011

Two more influential membership organisations have lined up to condemn the execution of the Work Programme, heaping yet more pressure on the Work and Pensions minister responsible for the scheme.

Nick Hurd, minister for civil society
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Hurd publishes open letter to explain strategy behind Big Society 2

Governance | Tania Mason | 12 Oct 2011

Minister for civil society Nick Hurd has written an open letter to the sector that seeks to explain the “strategic framework” underpinning the government’s recent policy initiatives.

Work Programme is at risk of 'systematic failure', charity sub-contractors warn
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Work Programme is at risk of 'systematic failure', charity sub-contractors warn 2

Finance | Niki May Young | 11 Oct 2011

Over 100 charity sub-contractors have joined the National Council for Voluntary Organisations special interest group to submit concerns over the viability of the Work Programme to employment minister Chris Grayling.

Consultation opens on proposals for an Institute for Youth Work
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Consultation opens on proposals for an Institute for Youth Work

Governance | Kirsty Weakley | 7 Oct 2011

The National Youth Agency has launched a consultation to discover the level of support within the sector for an Institute for Youth Work.

National Coalition of Independent Action
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Independence panel inquiry is 'deeply flawed', says Coalition 2

Governance | Tania Mason | 5 Oct 2011

The sector independence inquiry launched by the Baring Foundation is deeply flawed and will be a wasted opportunity unless its terms and methodology are completely revised, according to one of the responses to the inquiry consultation.

Frances Crook, CEO, Howard League for Penal Reform
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Charities that run jails should lose charitable status, says Howard League chief 7

Finance | Becky Slack | 27 Sep 2011

Charities that run prisons should have their charitable status revoked, according to Frances Crook, chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform.
 

Big Society will fail, say committee MPs
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Big Society will fail, say committee MPs

Governance | Vibeka Mair | 26 Sep 2011

The Public Administration Select Committee has warned that the Big Society agenda will fail as civil servants do not have the skills to implement it, and there is a reluctance to do the reforms.

BIG appoints Catch 22 as preferred bidder for £25m youth fund
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BIG appoints Catch 22 as preferred bidder for £25m youth fund

Governance | Vibeka Mair | 10 Aug 2011

The Big Lottery Fund has appointed a consortium led by Catch 22 as the preferred partner to run its £25m Realising Ambition progamme, which will focus on support for young people at risk of offending.

Dame Anne Owers
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Independence panel launches consultation report 1

Governance | Tania Mason | 14 Jul 2011

The Panel on the Independence of the Voluntary Sector has launched a consultation inviting sector views on the state of the sector’s independence.


Sir Stuart Etherington
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Sector leaders lament absence of 'social value' in White Paper

Finance | Tania Mason | 12 Jul 2011

Sector commentators have largely welcomed the Open Public Services White Paper, recognising that the reforms have the potential to create unprecedented opportunity for civil society organisations to deliver more public services.




David Cameron, Prime Minister
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Public service reforms will 'profoundly change role of government', says White Paper 2

Governance | Tania Mason | 12 Jul 2011

The government says it will encourage commissioners of public services to break up contracts into smaller lots “where appropriate” to enable smaller providers to participate in service delivery.



Andrew Hind, editor, Charity Finance
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Hind joins new panel examining sector independence

Finance | Tania Mason | 11 Jul 2011

Charity Finance editor Andrew Hind has joined a new independent panel of sector leaders who will examine and report on the sector’s independence over the next five years.


 

Stephen Bubb, chief executive of Acevo
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Bubb tells MPs that contracts are better than grants 6

Governance | Vibeka Mair | 6 Jul 2011

Sir Stephen Bubb, chief executive of Acevo, told a select committee meeting yesterday that grants were "problematic" for the sector and that contracts were preferable.

Stuart Etherington, chief exective, NCVO
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Charities plan to increase or retain services despite financial constraints

Finance | Niki May Young | 30 Jun 2011

Despite pessimism for the financial situation of their organisations, 82 per cent of charities plan to retain or increase the extent of services they offer, according to the NCVO's latest Charity Forecast Survey, published today.

Paul Woodward, chief executive, Sue Ryder
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Sue Ryder to sell English homecare business to private provider 2

Finance | Tania Mason | 28 Jun 2011

Sue Ryder is to sell off its English homecare business to Allied Healthcare, the Nasdaq-listed health and social care provider, in a move that will see the charity totally exit the social homecare market in England after nearly 20 years.

Report sparks row over NHS social enterprise spin-outs
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Report sparks row over NHS social enterprise spin-outs

Governance | Gareth Jones | 24 Jun 2011

The National Audit Office has raised concerns about NHS staff using the Right to Request scheme to create social enterprises, highlighting “risks to value for money”.

Carers charity threatens action over public service tendering process
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Carers charity threatens action over public service tendering process

Finance | Kirsty Weakley | 21 Jun 2011

An Oxford charity is threatening to take the county council to the Local Government Ombudsman because of the way its tendering process for a contract to provide support to adult carers was carried out.

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NCIA paper criticises public service commissioning

Finance | Gareth Jones | 21 Jun 2011

The National Coalition for Independent Action has issued a policy paper claiming that the use of contracts rather than grants is leading to “the destruction of the voluntary sector”.

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