Third Sector Resilience: the Changing Policy Context
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Third Sector Resilience: the Changing Policy Context
Pete AlcockUniversity of Birmingham
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Labour Government Legacy
Hyperactive Mainstreaming
• Deakin Commission - need for improved relations (Concordat)• Alun Michael - Labour Party commitment to partnership• Office of Third Sector – 2006 (Cabinet Office)
Partnership workingFrom Vertical to Horizontal support
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Strategic Support
Formalising relations - Compact
HM Treasury Cross Cutting Review 2002 - Capacity building
• Futurebuilders - £215m• ChangeUp (Capacitybuilders) – £150m• Communitybuilders - £70m• Social Enterprise Investment Fund - £100m
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Sector Engagement
Strategic engagement
• Campbell Robb – OTS Director• OTS Strategic Partners• OTS Advisory Body
“Over the past five years we have seen a growing understanding of, and emphasis on working with, the voluntary sector across government. Partnership working has become the norm…” (Etherington, NCVO, 2002).
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Growth in IncomeTotal income from statutory sources increased by 61% from 2000/01.
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From Grants to ContractsShift from grants to contracts - contracts increased 157% from 2000/01 while grants fell by 32%.
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Big Society
Core theme for Cameron and Conservative Party in run up to 2010 election – Building a Big Society
May 18 – Prime Minister (Cameron) and Deputy (Clegg)• ‘Big Society at the heart of public sector reform…’• Early policy statement – Building the Big Society, July 19 – Cameron• Liverpool Big Society speech – ‘my great passion’, ‘huge
culture change’
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Big SocietyReplacing the ‘third sector’ – Office of the Third Sector
becomes Office for Civil Society
New policy programme • Making it easier to run voluntary organisations• Making it easier for organisations to work with the state• Getting more resources into the sectorFurther policy papers - Building a Stronger Civil Society,
Supporting a Stronger Civil Society, Better Together….
… But cuts in horizontal support for sector
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Policy Retrenchment2010 Spending Review – OCS budget slashed by around 60% • Futurebuilders and Changeup closed• Capacitybuilders and Compact Commission abolished • Strategic partners reduced (42 – 11) and funding cut• Compact ‘renewed’
Local authority support for sector also under threat from average of 25% cuts, and 51% of public funding comes from local authorities
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Projected impact of spending cutsIf the planned spending cuts are passed on proportionately, the third sector will lose around £1.2 billion per year by 2015/16, and £3.3billion in total.
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New Policy Environment
Continuity and Change
Opening up Public Services • Reform of commissioning• Right to Provide• Social Value Act• Competition and market pricing
But third sector ‘squeezed’ - Employment Programme and Payment-by-results…
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New Policy Environment
Continuity and Change
Community engagement• Double Devolution• Community Vanguards• Community Organisers• National Citizens Service
But variations in community capacity and resources…
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New Policy Environment
Continuity and Change
Social Investment• Big Society Capital• Social Impact Bonds• Mutualisation taskforce
But is there evidence of demand?