1. Joining the Dots…
o The operating environment
o Facing change
o The journey
o The how
Graham Whalley, CEO, Young Lancashire, (registered as a charity
and company limited by guarantee) www.younglancashire.org.uk

2. Operating Environment
• Big state to small state – Cuts & Debt;
• Localism;
• Young People and Volunteering;
• Future of Infrastructure;
• Source of Income spectrum;
Let’s take a closer look…

3. Cuts
• Context for all Govt policy
• Did Transition Fund achieve anything?
• Severe impact in many NW areas
• ‘Accepted Truth’

4. Debt
• Cut government debt but increase:
– Personal debt
• Student loans in Fe & HE
• Removal of EMA
– Private Sector debt
• Payments by results will lead to huge borrowing
– Voluntary sector debt
• Loans, Loans, Loans
• Social Impact Bonds

5. Localism, Localism, Localism
• What is true impact of the bill?
• Localisation of blame and centralisation of
power?
• Policy contradictions: The Bins! Council Tax!
• Whitehall vs Town Hall
• Right to Challenge or Right to privatise?
• Right to Buy or Right to Liability?

6. Young People and Volunteering
• Forgotten generation?
• To blame for everything?
• Lack of youth focused services
• Lack of engagement
• Lack of jobs – 1,000,000+ unemployed!
• Bring back the Future Jobs Fund
• When is a volunteer not a volunteer?
• Good volunteering Vs bad volunteering
• Volunteers delivering public service

7. Youth Unemployment
• Youth Contract
– Apprenticeships
– Workfare
– ‘Job Subsidy’
• What’s your verdict?
• What is role of sector
– As advocate
– As an employer

8. Future of Infrastructure
• TLI – Transforming Local Infrastructure
• ‘Not BASIS 3’
• Focused on ‘Business Support’: what about
voice?
• Who can afford to pay?
What’s the BLF reported view?

9. BLF perspective: What Should LIOs Look Like?
“New model of holistic support;
Specialist and mainstream available from one
source;
Streamlined organisational structures;
More mergers across geographically adjacent
areas;
Far more partnership working;
Continual assessment of need and outcomes”

10. BLF perspective - How should LIOs be funded?
“New models of funding required;
Loosen reliance on grant funding;
Charging for services;
Grant funding for transformation;
Income generation from selling expertise”

11. Link

12. Hands Up for Change?
“God grant me the serenity to accept
the things I cannot change; courage
to change the things I can; and
wisdom to know the difference”
‘Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed citizens can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has’
(Margaret Mead)

13. The Journey
• Informal consortium
• Independent Evaluation
• Ofsted Report
• Close working with LA
• Formation of working group
Links:
Riding the Wave - Evaluation of a Lancashire informal consortium
Riding the Wave - Case Study
Riding the Wave - Recommendations and Response
An evaluation of approaches to commissioning young people’s services

14. The Model – Formal Consortium
“Hub and spokes – SPV operating model”

15. New consortium – business plan
Vision ‘We believe that together we can learn more,
progress faster and deliver better than we can apart
and therefore have a duty to collaborate for the benefit
of those we serve. The result will be a thriving local
community in which all children, young people and
families, including the most disadvantaged and
vulnerable, are able to achieve their full potential’
Mission To win significant resources to sustain and
grow high quality, children, young people and family-
related provision within the local voluntary, community
and faith sector, in response to identified needs
LINK: Consortium Membership Prospectus and FAQs

16. New consortium – structured market
Offering
Diversity Commissioners
VCFS CYP&F Solutions
providers Co-design
Full Members Collaborative working
(come in all PQQ Met
shapes and Contract Ready Structured Market
Universal Criteria met Supply chain
sizes!
Associate Members
Universal Criteria met – commitment
to meeting full PQQ and becoming
contract ready
micro providers

17. Dot to Dot
• More for less - reduce transaction costs, scale,
size and reach;
• Contracting – tender ready, contestable;
• Loan Finance (PBR) – new entity, fit for purpose;
• Localism – open and inclusive, capacity building
• Values - open and inclusive, democratic;
collaborative working, capacity building
Navigating the change…

18. Navigational Leadership
A simple acrostic (John C. Maxwell):
PLAN AHEAD
Predetermine a course of action
Lay out your goals
Adjust your priorities
Notify key people
Allow time for acceptance
Head into action
Expect problems
Always point to the successes
Daily review the plan
John C. Maxwell’s book The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You (2007),