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What does intelligent commissioning look like? In some areas, cuts are being met by a salami slicing approach with loads of disjointed small scale lots mitigating against collaborative partnership and community working.

 

Fergus Beesley, Executive Director Groundwork Sheffield, shared a more intelligent model developing in Coventry.

 

http://www.vacoventry.org.uk/here-2-help-consortium 

 

The Here 2 Help consortium, owned and run by local voluntary organisations, was launched on 21st February at an event attended by over 60 people. Facilitated by members of the founding group of 12 local charities, the event gave a detailed presentation on the aims and workings of the consortium as detailed in the membership prospectus.

 

The consortium will provide a new way for local voluntary organisations to work with the Council and other statutory agencies to deliver cost-effective services for the people of Coventry. The consortium will enable smaller local voluntary organisations to work collaboratively and tender together to compete more effectively against larger, national commercial organisations, thus helping to keep a strong local provider base in the city, close to Coventry's communities. The consortium has been set up by a founding group of 12 local charities, chaired by Voluntary Action Coventry, and forms part of wider discussions with senior officers of the Council since early 2010.