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Title: Micro Enterprises and Putting People First in Wokingham


1
Micro Enterprises and Putting People First in
Wokingham
  • James Burgess
  • Commissioning and Development Manager
  • Mike Stillman
  • PPF Commissioning Project Officer

2
Why Micro Enterprises?
  • Market Development a key objective of Wokinghams
    PPF transformation Project
  • Options
  • Existing providers offering new services
  • New providers offering the same kinds of service
  • New providers offering new types of service

3
Existing Providers
  • Mostly medium and large scale
  • Mostly fairly conservative
  • Block contracts for traditional services
  • Many self funders
  • Focused on critical needs

4
New Providers
  • Need more variety but not easy for new providers
    to set up.
  • Small scale providers could be way forward as
    they can be flexible and innovative
  • NAAPS micro enterprises project offered support
    to investigate this as an achievable and low risk
    way forward.

5
How did we do it?
  • Met with Angela Catley NAAPS Head of Projects
    who is providing consultancy support
  • Set up Micro Enterprises mini-project
  • Obtained staff resource to manage the project
  • Set aside 15,000 for start up grants
  • Visited NAAPS pilot site in Oldham
  • Held awareness events for stakeholders and
    potential providers
  • Set target of 5 new providers by April 2010

6
What has worked?
  • Involvement of NAAPS
  • Expertise and support.
  • Learning from their pilots.
  • Opportunity to meet micro-providers in Oldham
  • Credibility of project one of first outside
    pilots
  • Grants
  • Key to generating interest.
  • Gave a high profile to the project as a way to
    support to local businesses during down turn.
  • Real impact on market place

7
Challenges
  • Lots of effort required to publicise project.
  • Most interest from newly set up enterprises
    rather than from potential providers.
  • Time and expertise needed to help businesses
    develop.
  • Council processes in relation to commissioning
    and contracting not friendly for small
    businesses.
  • Area of well paid high employment. Means fewer
    risk takers, and income expectations are high.

8
Who have we helped?
  • Three low level home care providers
  • A new footcare service
  • In the pipeline
  • A service supporting older asian women
  • A further low level domestic support service

9
What else have we done?
  • Unit costing to allow people with personal
    budgets to get accurate costs of in house
    services.
  • Contracts for 2 external brokerage providers.
  • Developing budget management options Individual
    Service Funds and Managed Service Funds.
  • Supporting People Personal Budget pilot.
  • Signposting service.

10
What else are we working on?
  • User guide to budget management options and safe
    commissioning.
  • Accreditation of brokers.
  • Exploration of possible prevention brokerage
    service.

11
Contacts
  • James Burgess
  • Commissioning and Development Manager
  • james.burgess_at_wokingham.gov.uk
  • Tel 0118 974 6235
  • Mike Stillman
  • PPF Commissioning Project Officer
  • mike.stillman_at_wokingham.gov.uk
  • Tel 0118 908 8225
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