Voluntary Sector Network Event

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Voluntary Sector Network Event

• Jon Skone
• Director of Social Care and Housing

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Areas to be covered

• Round up from last year.
• Looking Forward.
• What we are looking for from the Voluntary
  Sector.
• What is special about the Voluntary Sector.

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Update from 2007/ 2008

• Foster Care.
• The Teams around Children.
• Local Safeguarding Children Board.
• Good Neighbour Schemes.
• Community Service Review.
• Re-ablement Pilots.

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• 1st full year of South Pembrokeshire Hospital
  Health and Social Care Resource Centre.
• Joint Training Initiatives with partners.
• West Wales Adult Placement Scheme.
• Partnerships with other counties.

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• Political support for change.
• Below inflation funding settlement.
• The 6 Rs

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The 6 Rs

• Our business is about ensuring that the Right
  customer receives the Right service from the
  Right person in the Right Place at the Right Time
  and at the Right price.

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Looking Forward 2008/ 2009

• Angela Watwood, Head of Community Care
  Commissioning started on the 1st July.
• Community focus.
• Re-ablement/ reducing dependency.
• Direct Payments, Individual Budgets and
  Individualisation.

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• Shared living.
• Phase 2 of the Fostering Business Plan.
• Joint working with Health (Section 33
  agreements).
• Autism.
• Transitions.

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• Coastal- Work and meaningful occupation.

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What we are looking for from the Voluntary Sector.

• A business approach
• Business planning and being clear about core
  business.
• Robust quality assurance.
• Efficiency and cutting out waste.
• Treating staff and customers well.
• Delivering upon agreements.

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• Energetic, vibrant and forward looking.
• Bringing something to a partnership rather than
  expecting something from the partnership.

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• We are not looking for anything more or less than
  we would expect from any other organisation.

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What is special about the Voluntary Sector

• Im not sure that there is anything particularly
  special about the voluntary sector when compared
  with other sectors. What do you think? Why?