Kate Annison

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Social Enterprise Public Sector Partnership

• Kate Annison
• Head of Economic Inclusion Social Economy
  (SEEDA)
• Cultural Shift South East DP

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Context

• Stimulus Global Competitiveness
• Challenge demographic/ environmental change
• Result renegotiation of the social contract
• Method Creation of the efficient social
  investment state
• Expectation Transformation of the role of the
  public sector

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Cultural Shift South East

• Led by SEEDA 12 multi-sector partners
• Identifying Opportunity Markets
• Developing Partnership based social enterprises
• Action Learning Identifying Challenges for PPP.
  (Cultural, technical, resource based)
• Outputs better partnership relationships
  systems

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Current Partnerships
Housing Associations IT Support
Prison Service - Horticulture
Local Authorities - Regeneration
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Briefing
Regional
National
Housing
Culture
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Opportunities for Partnership

• Expansion of the Public Interest Policy Lexicon
• - Childcare
• - Employment Training
• - Health Social Care
• - ICT
• - Waste
• - Energy

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5 Challenges

• Partnerships for Investment
• Supporting the Public Sector
• Procurement
• Evidencing Social Impact
• Creating Demand Led Services

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Partnerships for Investment

• A fundamental relationship
• Balancing Risk Public Accountability
• Social Enterprise Are they anti-competitive?
• EU Member state differences

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Supporting the Public Sector

• Transforming roles From deliverers to customers,
  facilitators and investors.
• Public sector workers as gatekeepers to the
  development of social enterprise.
• Communicating change
• Public sector worker culture separation of
  commercial social imperatives
• restricting risk and innovation
• Policy Rhetoric Vs Practical Reality EQUAL as
  an example.

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Procurement

• Public sector as major procurers
• Challenges of the Best Value and Economies of
  Scale imperatives.
• Potential solutions supply chain agreements,
  social clauses, consortia agreements.
• Ultimately Procurement as social ainnovation
  profession

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Evidencing Social Impact

• Imbalance with the private sector Expectations
  to evidence impact.
• Complexity of methodologies
• Unification of evidence base required
• Lobbying to confer social impact requirements
  onto the private sector

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Creating Demand Led Services

• Search for sustainability and independence from
  the public sector
• Integrating empowerment into service delivery
• Potential impacts increasing scale and
  competitiveness, reduction in focus on
  geographical communities.
• Customer choice mechanisms are key.