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Mutuals given go-ahead as Cabinet Office confirms initial pilots
August 27, 2010
The first wave of John Lewis-style ‘employee-owned’ public services were given the go ahead this week by the Coalition Government. The Cabinet Office has announced 12 ‘public service spin -offs’ to be pioneered as mutuals. This will see entrepreneurial public sector workers joining together, often across organisational boundaries, to establish co-operatives or social enterprises. All the pilots will be supported by expert mentors including staff from the John Lewis Partnership. Initial pilot sites include services in Westminster, Essex, Lambeth, Mansfield, Hamersmith and Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea, Swindon, and Leicester.
Mark Lloyd becomes Acting MD for Essex Cares
August 23, 2010
The Board of Essex Cares has asked the CHS Director Mark Lloyd to become Acting MD for the LATC which is one year old. Flexibility and the need for radical entrepreneurial thinking has led the Board to appoint an experienced consultant to lead the organisation forward. Tremendous opportunity exists to capitalise on the new health agenda, forge new partnerships, and look to diversify the business base into the private social care markets.
Mark is delighted to take this opportunity forward on behalf of CHS.
Enterprising Stuff at the NAEP Conference
August 18, 2010
Please find a useful account on the Essex Cares LATC model as provided by the Director of the Countywide Equipment Service.
http://www.thiis.co.uk/enterprise-naep-aug10.aspx
Strategic partnerships with Capgemini and Camb-Ed (Mott Macdonald)
August 7, 2010
Care and Health Solutions (CHS) has formed strategic partnerships with two of the Country’s largest Corporate Consultancy and Provider Agencies involved in the delivery of health and educational services.
Capgemini offer CHS the opportunity to jointly tender for NHS transformation work post the Government White Paper offering our specialist Social Care services to find solutions for major health and social care modernisation programmes with Local Authority Partner involvement.
Camb-Ed (Mott Macdonald) offers CHS the opportunity to tender for Local Authority transformation work across both Children and Adult Services where major departmental savings and potential externalisation of services is required.
Mike Walsh CHS Director comments,
”CHS is delighted to have come to the attention of two of the largest Corporate players in the health, social care, and educational markets. CHS is able to offer these Corporate Agencies added value in terms of our expertise within the Social Care enviroment and our track record in innovation and delivering major transformation programmes.”
The arrangements in place will be on a tender by tender basis with CHS remaining an independent consultancy agency.
CHS help Solihull Council meet Personalisation Agenda
August 5, 2010
CHS has played a lead role through Mark Lloyd in assisting Solihull Council put in place a complete programme of Personalisation Transformation to help the Council meet the Government Concordat ‘Putting People First’ Agenda. With the requirement for 30% of all service users to be assessed for the option of individual budgets by March 2011, a strategic programme has seen the introduction of a new end to end process including information on services provided by the third sector through an IT portal (link below), a new contact centre to deal with enquires, the creation of a reablement service, and processes which now allow service users to have access to assessed individual budgets. The role out of this strategy is now being undertaken by CHS associate Martin Furber.