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From Lords #PublicServices Committee Inquiry into learning collaboration & issues in public & charity services during Covid
A thread of clips
1. We haven't seen 'new' forms of collaboration...but the unleashing of what was always possible w/o transactional contracting
A thread of clips
1. We haven't seen 'new' forms of collaboration...but the unleashing of what was always possible w/o transactional contracting
2. Practical collaboration to meet people's universal basic human needs has brought the "humanity' back to what it means to deliver 'public benefit' and #PublicServices
3. The biggest issue going into this pandemic, for charities & councils alike, was 10 years of cuts, a ÂŁ3.1 billion funding gap in children's services, the decimation of children's centres & youth services..... to say we went in cash strapped...would be an understatement"
4. On national v local leadership it looks like a complete mess - where national action has long been needed (eg in social care 'markets') it's absent, and where local is best national govt holds the reins and issues large failing contracts, that no charity would get away with
5. We are very concerned that DfE decided that *this* was the time to deregulate safeguards for children in care when they were not needed locally...and certainly not about doing better for children #ScrapSI445
6. We need to bust the myth that competitive procurement costs less or saves any money at all...... in children's services the bill only keeps rising the more competition and the more tendering you do
(sorry, twitter threading with clips seemed to come to a halt...so here is number 7 from a stand alone tweet!) https://twitter.com/Kathy_CEO_CE/status/1278009455288991745?s=20
8. Targets and KPIs don't measure anything useful... we have been chasing money around to reward disingenuous data #HLS
Accountability for spending public money well does not sit in a spreadsheet
Accountability for spending public money well does not sit in a spreadsheet
And to round up from the eight clips, please do check out our Eight Principles for changing the commissioning environment for all public services, for the better, forever..... [thread ends]
![And to round up from the eight clips, please do check out our Eight Principles for changing the commissioning environment for all public services, for the better, forever..... [thread ends]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbxppdNXgAYsmbe.png "And to round up from the eight clips, please do check out our Eight Principles for changing the commissioning environment for all public services, for the better, forever..... [thread ends]")
