Future Funding & Commissioning Arrangements (for housing related support services). Three years ago: how much of it came true?

1. Future Funding &
Commissioning Arrangements
Michael Patterson:
Support Solutions
23rd November 2011

2. Key Questions
Funding
The Roles of Providers
The Roles of Commissioners
Devolution

3. The Big Picture
Public expenditure crisis
Public sector reform/retrenchment:
different within devolved administrations
The Big Society/Localism: and enhanced
role for non-statutory players
Changing commissioning arrangements

4. The Big Picture
Public sector reform, especially in England
Greater emphasis on prevention & social
return on investment (SROI)
Need for providers to collaborate & diversify
Payment by results being emphasised
Public funding shrinking, social investment
developing

5. Funding
Public expenditure crisis
Public funding shrinking
Social investment developing
Housing Benefit:
DWP Review: still waiting…….
Universal Credit: “vulnerable” people?
Supporting People:
Different significance in different places
On the wane in most areas (but not in Wales)

6. Funding
Public money will form a smaller
percentage of total revenue for the Sector
Providers should look for a more diverse
range of revenue sources
Some revenue will still be paid through
competitive tenders

7. Funding
Scotland
Section 10 Adult Community Care Grant Scheme
The Change Fund: Elders service redesign, £70m

8. Funding
Social Investment Scotland
 Social Investment Scotland Loan Fund (£10-
£250k over 10 years)
 Scottish Investment Fund (£30m in total:
£100-£500k)
Social Entrepreneurs Fund (£1m)
Third Sector Enterprise Fund (£12m in
total: £25-£100k grants)

9. Funding
Supporting People to fund collaboration, co-production
& co-design of services across
housing, homelessness, health and social
care and community safety
Child & Families Organisation Grant (CFOG)
Welsh Social Enterprise Coalition

10. Funding
Health Challenge Wales (health,
wellbeing & prevention)
Local Mental Health Grant Scheme
(LMHGS)
Support for People with Disabilities Grant
Scheme (SPD)

11. Funding
Clinical Commissioning Money
£80bn: some must be for prevention
£2bn more for social care by 2014
Part of removing the barriers between health
and social care funding & commissioning
Public Health Grant: “
Healthy Lives, Healthy People” 2011

12. Funding
The Social Investment Business
(England)
£5k-£7m in funding allocations
SEIF (Social Enterprise Investment Fund)
Social Action Fund
Communitybuilders Fund
The Adventure Capital Fund
Futurebuilders England Fund
Modernisation Fund
Funding availability update

13. Funding
Social Finance
Social Investment Bonds
The Volunteering Fund: national & local
grants for health outcomes using
volunteers

14. Funding
Supporting People
Housing Benefit
Social Investment Fund Northern Ireland

15. Funding
Big Issue Invest: Loans of £50-£500k
Triodos Bank
Big Society Capital Group (Big Society
Bank)
Social ISA
Charity Bank
Big Lottery Fund

16. Commissioning
Focus on value, not on cost
Social Return on Investment
What are the cost benefits of prevention?
Calculate your cost benefit!
Cap Gemini Report
Strategic policy direction
Commissioners
Providers

17. Commissioning
Strategic positioning for providers:
Influence commissioning arrangements
Health & Wellbeing Boards (England)
Clinical Commissioning Groups (England)
Supporting People & Health & Social Care
Collaborate
Consortia: share costs & specialisms
“Hub & Spoke” arrangements

18. Commissioning
The role of the Sector is meant to be
widening
There is a need for diversification of
services
A wider set of commissioning
relationships

19. Commissioning
What is strategically relevant?
Look at local priorities
Prevention, diversion, inclusion, community
benefit
Increasing interest in “Payment by
Results”
But who defines the outcomes?
Joint Commissioning still the Holy Grail

20. Commissioning
Ironically, public sector reform as a
consequence of financial retrenchment may
lead to this
A state of flux exists whilst the Statutory
Sector adjusts to the Government agenda
Problems for Providers in being heard
But “bottom-up” solutions are required

21. Where Do We Need To Be?
Remodelling & diversifying services
Collaborating where necessary & desirable
Influencing commissioning structures and
thinking
Reallocating costs
Watching out for the DWP announcement on
HB for supported & sheltered housing
Diversifying funding streams

22. Where Do We Need To Be?
Adjusting Business Plans
Promoting preventative service models
Developing cost benefit, social benefit &
SROI arguments
Lobbying, campaigning & networking

23. Our Contact Details
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Birmingham B11 2AA
0121 707 7766/8881
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