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THIS EVENT HAS NOW SOLD OUT: To register for Big Society 2011, please click this link.
N.B. Despite the current weather conditions, this event is still scheduled to take place.
Wednesday 1st December 2010, Grand Connaught Rooms - London, 08:45 - 16:45
Social Reform in the UK: Building the ‘Big Society’
CONFIRMED: Lord Wei, Government Adviser for Big Society
Overview
On July 19 2010, the Prime Minister set out how the Big Society will be “the biggest, most dramatic re-distribution of power” from the state to individuals. Outlining his Big Society Plans in Liverpool, the Prime Minister announced the creation of a Big Society Bank which will be financed using dormant bank and building society account money. By expanding the social investment market place and helping to attract extra private sector investment it is expected that over time the Bank will generate hundreds of millions of pounds for charities, social enterprises and voluntary groups to fund social projects across the country, creating opportunities for social action and community involvement.
Sutton, Windsor and Maidenhead, Eden Valley in Cumbria and Liverpool will be the country’s first big society communities. These four areas will now receive targeted and tailored help from the government to ensure they can overcome bureaucratic barriers and take greater responsibility for the decisions that affect the local area and local people. The government hopes the Big Society will help to replace big government to mend ‘our broken society’ and help to cut the size of the public deficit.
The government states it wants to make society stronger by getting more people working together to run their own affairs locally. It aims to put more power and responsibility into the hands of families, groups, networks, neighborhoods and locally-based communities, and to generate more community organisers, neighbourhood groups, volunteers, mutual's, co-operatives, charities, social enterprises and small businesses: the idea is that all of these will take more action at a local level, with more freedom to do things the way they want.
The government will continue to give new powers to neighbourhoods, including greater control over their finances and new rights to take over state-run services, and wants to hear from community groups and individuals who feel they are facing unreasonable barriers to making changes for the benefit of the local community. In addition, the Decentralisation and Localism bill, was announced on 25 May 2010, to introduce greater powers to councils and neighbourhoods and give local communities control over housing and planning decision.
Furthermore, the government will direct around £470 million over the Spending Review period to support capacity building in the voluntary and community sector, including an endowment fund to assist local voluntary and community organisations. As part of this, the government will provide funds to pilot the National Citizen Service and establish a Transition Fund of £100 million to provide short term support for voluntary sector organisations providing public services. The Big Society Bank will bring in private sector funding in addition to receiving all funding available to England from dormant accounts.
Agenda
This timely and unique event will provide key stakeholders with a chance to learn more about the design of the ‘big society,’ as well as hearing about the latest plans for decentralisation and democratic engagement, and what new powers will be given to charities, councils, communities, neighbourhoods and individuals.
| 08:45 |
Registration and Coffee |
| 09:20 |
Chair’s Welcome Address
Lord Archy Kirkwood, Former Chair, Work and Pensions Select Committee (CONFIRMED)
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| 09:25 |
Funding the Big Society
- Funding opportunities in the Big Society
- New opportunities to help charities, voluntary groups and social enterprises make the transition to becoming providers of public service
- Identifying tolls and methods to secure funding
Stephen Bubb, Chair, The Social Investment Business (CONFIRMED)
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| 09:45 |
Big Society: Transferring Power from Central to Local Government
- What will the Big Society mean for local government?
- Drawing on the skills and expertise of local communities to respond to the social, political and economic challenges they face in their community and neighbourhoods
- New powers to help communities save local facilities and services threatened with closure
- Giving communities the right to bid to take over local state-run services
- Reforming the planning system to give neighbourhoods far more ability to determine the shape of the places in which their inhabitant live
- Review of local government finance
Neil O'Connor, Director, Communities and Neighbourhoods, Department for Communities and Local Government (CONFIRMED)
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| 10:05 |
Enabling Big Society through removing barriers - Zurich
- Zurich is working with customers, Government and industry bodies to develop initiatives to enable and support the Big Society.
- Tough Choices - a recently published unique research report, provides insight and debate around the real risks for the public sector and wider civil society, in light of the recent budget cuts
- What effect will the cuts have on charities and voluntary groups, the public sector and what will they mean for the future of the Big Society?
- Providing advice and guidance to community and voluntary groups and acting as an 'enabler' for the Big Society in the future
Paul Emery, Head of Community and Social Organisations, Zurich Insurance (CONFIRMED)
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| 10:25 |
Questions and Answers Session |
| 10:40 |
Coffee and Networking |
| 11:00 |
Special Keynote Address: Building the Big Society
- Building blocks of the Big Society
- Giving communities more powers to solve problems closer to where they live
- The three priorities in building the Big Society ecosystem needed to reconfigure how policy is developed and delivered
- Elements of the Big Society that already exist
- What will be the role of social enterprises, voluntary groups and local authorities be under the Big Society
- Building a more productive, responsive government and a more self-reliant participative society
- Key themes for central government departments to consider in developing and designing policy
- The creation of a Big Society Bank
- Future of the national citizen service
- Launching an annual national ‘Big Society Day’
Lord Wei, Government Adviser for Big Society (CONFIRMED)
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| 11:20 |
Questions and Answers Session |
| 11:25 |
Social Enterprise in the Big Society: Transforming Service Delivery
- Big Society: opportunities and challenges for social enterprise
- Changing context of public service delivery
- Supporting and growing social enterprises
- How can social enterprise play a stronger role in the wider economy
- Innovation, value for money and social enterprise
- Social enterprise driving value for money and economic growth
- Finding ways to commission services providing better value for money and better satisfy the needs of citizens and communities
- Measure the full social, economic and environmental value of services
Peter Holbrook, Chief Executive, Social Enterprise Coalition (CONFIRMED)
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| 11:45 |
Co-operatives: A New Model for Public Service Delivery in the Big Society
- Giving public sectors workers a new right to form employee-owned co-operatives and bid to take over the services they deliver
- Empowering public sector workers to become their own boss and to deliver better services
- Can all services be run co‑operatively?
- Providing advice and guidance to those thinking of setting up their own co-operative
- Regenerating local economies
Ed Mayo, Secretary General, Co-operatives UK (CONFIRMED)
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| 12:05 |
The Role of Civil Society in Building the Big Society
- What will the Big Society mean for civil society?
- Stimulating the creation and development of neighbourhood groups
- Encouraging more people to take part in social action
- Galvanising neighbourhood renewal and social action
- Creating opportunities for people to learn new skills and give back to communities
- Raising awareness of the role and importance of volunteering to the community and personal development
- Unlocking potential of the voluntary sector: improving public sector delivery
Sir Stuart Etherington, Chief Executive, National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) (CONFIRMED)
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| 12:25 |
Young People Building the Big Society
Dr. Terry Ryall, Founding Chief Executive, v The National Young Volunteers’ Service & Vanessa Sanyauke, Trustee & Member, v20, Youth Advisory Board (CONFIRMED) |
| 12:45 |
Questions and Answers Session |
| 13:00 |
Lunch and Networking |
| 14:00 |
Afternoon Keynote: The Big Society Network: Empowering Citizens
- Using social networking to empower citizens and communities to come together and make the changes they need in their area
- Your Square Mile: enabling citizens to find and join community groups and social enterprises
- Linking social enterprises and communities to each other to share ideas and resources, complementing the role of existing umbrella organisations
Overcoming citizen engagement challenges
- Big society, diversity and inclusion: overcoming the challenges of inclusive participation
Paul Twivy, Chief Executive, Big Society Network (CONFIRMED)
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| 14:20 |
Afternoon Keynote Questions and Answers Session
Paul Twivy, Chief Executive, Big Society Network (CONFIRMED) |
| 14:25 |
Localism with a twist – How to Make Local Planning Work
- Two shortcomings of ‘Localism’
- a locality is connected to surrounding interests and cannot be planned in isolation
- public consultations are not normally a true reflection of the full public interest
- Four twists to make it work:
- A’ joined-up concept’ of urban life
- A dynamic planning method - understanding why problems happen and integrated strategies to modify their causes
- A community impact analysis – a social cost /benefit analysis of the full range of beneficial and adverse impacts and the people affected
- Participatory Budgeting – a fun way to enhance mutual understanding and trade-off
Dalia Lichfield, Senior Partner, Lichfield Planning (CONFIRMED)
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| 14:45 |
Case Study: Wiltshire Delivers ‘Big Society’
- How is Wiltshire delivering the Big Society?
- Wiltshire's approach: empowering communities to take on more and to influence what services are provided in their local area and how these can be best provided - shifting the role of state and citizen
- A robust an innovative governance structure
- Delivering a proactive approach to engaging and involving local people
- Enabling and facilitating communities so that they become fully self-reliant, reducing the public service resources needed
- Delivering services that communities want in a joined up way
- Breaking down bureaucratic barriers
- Using excellent intelligence and communication to make the Big Society a reality
- What efficiency savings can be made in the Big Society?
- Lessons learnt
Andrew Kerr, Chief Executive, Wiltshire Council (CONFIRMED)
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| 15:05 |
Questions and Answers Session |
| 15:20 |
Coffee and Networking |
| 15:40 |
Case Study: Becoming a Big Society Community
- What will the Big Society mean for Liverpool
- Working with government to implement ideas behind the Big Society
- Funding the Big Society community
- Existing elements of the Big Society in Liverpool
- Empowering the citizens of Liverpool to make decisions for themselves
- Creating a generation of community organisers
- Encouraging people to take an active role in their communities
- What will the Big Society mean for Liverpool economically and socially?
- Overcoming bureaucratic barriers
- Lessons learnt from the pilot
Joe Anderson, Council Leader, Liverpool City Council (CONFIRMED)
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| 16:00 |
Case Study: Transforming the Delivery of Social Care Services through Community Engagement
- The Circle model: co-designed with thousands of older people and their families and developed by Participle
- Southwark Circle - flagship organisation - a community-based, personalised model of social care
- Providing a platform for participation and contribution by 'Neighbourhood Helpers'
- Preventative service estimated to save taxpayer £2.4 million
- Building towards financially self-sustaining social enterprise
- Social impact measurement demonstrating increase in social capital and quality of life
Daniel Dickens, Managing Director, Southwark Circle (CONFIRMED)
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| 16:20 |
Questions and Answers Session |
| 16:45 |
Close |
*programme subject to change without notice
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Audience
Delegates will be drawn from right across central, regional and local government, police, NHS, private, social enterprises, community groups, voluntary groups and will include directors, heads of planning, policy, housing, community cohesion, neighbourhoods, community safety officers, voluntary, community sector partnerships, community learning, directors, heads regeneration, economic development, business change, finance directors, chief executives, strategic directors, heads of policy and performance, heads/directors of public health, social care.
