Get your paperback or ebook copy of Vitalising Purpose – The Power of the Social Enterprise Difference in Public Services
Jamie Veitch and Jonathan Bland, with a foreword by Lord Victor Adebowale CBE.
“A must read for chief executives, heads of transformation, commissioners and procurement officers, and social entrepreneurs.”
Maximise social value, public benefit and good outcomes for people and places when delivering public services
We depend on public services for a functioning society. But there are record pressures on them. Resources are stretched. Demand is escalating. Some services are at risk of collapse.
Traditional approaches in which public authorities do everything in-house or outsource services using the same process as when they buy goods are not delivering good outcomes. The market has failed many people-centred services. We must do better.
Vitalising Purpose investigates how partnerships between public authorities and social enterprises can make a difference to how public services are provided, and to people’s lives.
Its contributors were asked whether social enterprises have made things better in public service delivery; if social enterprises have generated better outcomes for people and places, what are they; and what holds social enterprises back from doing more?
Vitalising Purpose contains inspiring examples of the ‘social enterprise difference’, and practical ideas.
- For CEOs and senior officers in local government and integrated care boards; commissioners of services; procurement and legal officers; elected officials; policymakers; social investors; and people leading and working in social and community enterprises.
- Contributors have worked in central and local government, the NHS and some of the UK’s leading social enterprises which deliver services: Professor Carolyn Wilkins OBE, Richard Selwyn, Barry Fletcher, Rachel Law, Nathan Atkinson, June O’Sullivan MBE, Julian Blake, Sandra Hamilton, Mark Heasman, Naomi Hulston, Heidi Fisher MBE, Tej Dhami, Eddie Finch, Richard Fairchild, Fay Selvan and Gainsborough resident Vanessa
- Contains practical ideas about collaboration, commissioning, social investment, impact, risk, equality, culture and leadership.
- Will support readers to maximise social value, public benefit and good outcomes for people and places when delivering public services.
- It is for all ‘custodians of local democracy’. It will enable readers to maximise social value, public benefit and good outcomes for people and places when delivering public services.
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