3. The UK in numbers
£1,720bn£730bn £25,200bn
£17,600bn
£7,600bn
4. Social action is about people helping people – volunteering,
community action, giving of money, everyday neighbourly acts
32mvolunteer
once a year
74%That’s of us
75%
give to
each year
charity
~ £34bn ~ £11bn
5. 78,000 volunteers
13m hours per year
in acute trusts in England
Around 300,000
50,000
foster families
70,000volunteer
Games
Makers
40%newvolunteering
This has long been part of the fabric of British life
3m people
volunteer regularly
Across health & social care
School
Governors
to
21,500
volunteer magistrates
6. But familiar challenges mean we need to consider how we harness
assets and capability outside the State
the population of over 85yr olds
will increase by 106%
...
Between 2012 and 2032
of GP appointments
50%More than
65% of outpatient appointments
Over 70%
of inpatient bed days
People with long-term conditions
account for:
Challenges:
Our population is ageing
More people have long-term health
conditions
Expectations of public services
continue to rise
People want more responsive,
personalised public services
People want more control and
influence over how their local services are run
Communities are more fluid and
fragmented
2
3
4
1
5
6
7. Our Centre for Social Action is about testing, trialling and scaling
interventions to complement and reduce demands on public services
£40minvestment
over 2
years
185 projects
themes
6
Health, Ageing & Care
Young Potential &
Social Mobility
Rehabilitation
Community Action
Employment &
Prosperity
Digital
8. Our community action programmes are helping devolve power and
resources locally
Community FirstCommunity Organisers
Worked in
400
neighbourhoods
Listened to
150,000
residents
1,500
community
projects backed
Over 5,000
organisers
recruited
1
2
Neighbourhood Match Fund
Endowment Match Challenge
£27m
Govt funds
Allocated
projects
18,000
to with
£94m
match from
communities
£114
value of
endowment
interest
10.6%gaining
£1.7m
so far for 762
charities
enabling
10. Type 1: Platforms that we have helped create that connect people
who can help other people online / via technology
11. Type 2: Platforms that we have helped create that facilitate face-to-
face exchange and volunteering
12. Type 3: Platforms we have helped create that serve as catalysts
/facilitators of powerful social action movements
13. Type 4: Platforms for impact volunteering we have helped create
and develop within our public services
Feb 25, 201513
More than 40 acute trusts …
… and half of all primary
schools by 2018
15. Government as a Platform, or Platforms as Gathering Places of
Exchange?
If it’s right that we need to (and have the opportunity to) better leverage assets and capabilities outside
of the State then Government as a Platform is a very necessary but not sufficient part of the puzzle.
We need to twin track with helping catalyse and support more platforms outside of Government.
Such platforms might be online, technology supported or face-to-face. They may be within public
services or outside but have an impact on outcomes. Government should and will be involved in only a
very tiny fraction of them.
We need to:
Better understand (and it’s mostly not a ‘tech issue’)
Adapt our thinking, tools and approaches – it’ll for example be more fluid and organic, more local
and more about partnerships between public, private and voluntary sectors
Be ready to shift modes and stand back
But, there remain some ‘irreducible policy’ areas that will still require very ‘traditional’ civil service
policy and delivery.
