Commissioning from the third sector

Details

Date:  July to November 2010
Location:
26 July – venue: tbc, Exeter
29 July – venue: tbc, Newcastle
14 September – MacDonald Burlington Hotel, Birmingham
21 September – Royal York Hotel, York
5 October  – Holiday Inn London, Kensington Forum, London
12 October –  Radisson Edwardian Hotel, Manchester
19 October  – Radisson Blu Hotel, Bristol
26 October  –  Holiday Inn, Kensington Forum, London  
2 November  – MacDonald Burlington Hotel, Birmingham
9 November – Holiday Inn, Kensington Forum, London  
16 November – Radisson Edwardian Hotel, Manchester
23 November –  Holiday Inn, Kensington Forum, London  
Cost: Free 

About the event

LG Improvement and Development has partnered with the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) to deliver a comprehensive training programme for commissioners and finance staff across the public sector.

Courses will increase awareness and understanding of the third sector, help improve engagement and enable greater access to specialist knowledge that will benefit the delivery of public services.

The initial day-long courses, aimed at commissioning organisations new to working with the third sector are now available. The courses will cover:

• the policy context for the national programme (strategy, key drivers, aims and objectives of phase 2)
• greater involvement and engagement: potential benefits and perceived barriers
• building relationships with the third sector
• keys to successful engagement, partnering, commissioning and service delivery
• research and analysis, promoting innovation, stimulating the market
• measuring outcomes and assessing impact
• accounting for social return and social value
• working within the EU procurement framework and other regulation
• joint commissioning and joint provision
• performance measurement; proportionality and materiality
• risk: assessment, management and mitigation.

The day will be interactive and case-study based to ensure the programme will be highly relevant and of real practical value to both senior officers involved in setting policy and finance and commissioning practitioners.

Who should attend?

Commissioners and finance officers (level 1).

Programme

9.00 Registration and refreshments
9.45 Welcome and Introductions from the chair
10.00 National programme (Office of the Third Sector):

• Context/the policy framework
• Current issues
• Aims and objectives of phase 2

10.30 Greater involvement:

• Potential benefits
• Case study 1: third sector adding value to public services

11.00 Greater involvement:

• Potential barriers
• Case study 2: overcoming barriers, addressing perceptions

11.30 Coffee
11.45 A model for more effective involvement (1):

• building relationships
• forms of engagement; the commissioning lifecycle
• market research
• promoting and stimulating innovation
• Case study 3: effective engagement

12.30 A third sector perspective – Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO)
13.00 Lunch
13.45 A model for more effective involvement (2):

• match-making
• requirements, language and terminology
• measuring performance and achieving success
• case study 4: effective commissioning

14:30 Breakout sessions:

A: Finance

• Tools for decision-making
• Funding models
• Risk management
• Separation of roles

B: Commissioning

• Procurement law
• Proportionality
• Social Return on Investment (SROI)
• Joint commissioning

16:30 Barriers to change
17:00 Summary and close

Booking information

Manchester

12 October online booking form

16 November online booking form

Exeter

26 July online booking form

Newcastle

29 July online booking form

Birmingham

14 September online booking form

2 November online booking form

York

21 September online booking form

London

5 October online booking form

26 October online booking form

Bristol

19 October online booking form

Please note: delegates are liable for £100 charge if cancelled under a days notice without a replacement.

Presentation materials

We plan to distribute all presentation materials on a memory stick on the day, and these materials are also available on our Community of Practice (CoP). However if you prefer to receive these in hard copy format please complete the relevant section on the booking form.

National Programme for Third Sector Commissioning CoP

Further information

Gemma Pullen
telephone: 020 8667 8595
email: Gemma.Pullen@cipfa.org.uk

Page published July 2010.