The document discusses the approach to reimagining the second and third years of VCSE (Voluntary, Community, and Social Enterprise) sector engagement in Norfolk, emphasizing collaboration, proactive interactions, and practical actions to improve outcomes for the community. It highlights the importance of shared cultural understanding over traditional strategies and outlines the roles and responsibilities of various sectors to achieve better results for Norfolk's populations, particularly children and vulnerable individuals. Key areas of focus include community engagement, strategic planning, information sharing, and support systems, stressing the need for collective efforts and the removal of barriers to enable effective service delivery.

1. Reimagining Years 2&3

2. • Today is about how we work together going
forward
• The focus is on reimagining years 2 & 3
• Promote the VCSE sector objective of developing
an upstream conversation
• Promote the VCSE sector objective of a people
focused approach to reimagining
• Support positive interaction between VCSE and
NCC
• Support a strong starting point for change
• Strong focus on identifying practical actions to
take forward
Aims for today

3. Norfolk’s VCSE Sector

4. Norfolk’s VCSE Sector

5. Norfolk’s VCSE Sector

6. Norfolk’s VCSE Sector

7. Norfolk’s VCSE Sector

8. • Progressing the actions from the Sector
Led Plan
• Providing a key high level systems
interface for the sector
• Part elected, part appointed to provide
broad representation, legitimacy and
networks to communicate effectively with
the wider sector
System Leadership Group

9. • Opportunity for a better model
• Redefining the relationships internal and
external
• Collaboration structures that work
– Delivery
– Strategy
• Collaboration is the default
• Re-examine traditional roles & approaches
Going forward

10. • Fewer resources, more demand
• VCSE disengages from commissioning
prefers choice over slightly increased
resources with quality & safety concerns
• Community sector doesn't see the point of
engaging
• Natural forces approach to service
provision
• Split resource, reduced co-ordination likely
poorer outcomes overall
Worst Case

11. Those that will
loose most are the
people we most
want to help

12. Innovation
Virtuosity
& Bravura

13. • Culture eats strategy for breakfast
• What does this mean?
• As systems become more complex traditional
command and control and strategic alignment
become impossible
• Culture is behavioural
• People will move in the right direction on
instinct
• A stronger shared culture not a strategy?
Complex interlinked system going forward

14. “Partnership is the
suppression of mutual
hatred in the pursuit of a
funding opportunity”
– head of housing, not in Norfolk

15. The Cake Model of Partnership
• How do you eat your
cake?
• Take your piece, eat it in
the corner and tell us
how good it tasted every
few months
• Stay at the table, eat it
socially and
collaboratively
• Bit messier but probably
more fulfilling

16. Partnership is
fundamentally about
people and
relationships

17. Fundamental areas of
agreement
• Achieving the best possible
outcomes for the people of
Norfolk
• Prevention is better than cure

18. • What can we each bring (public & VCSE
sectors) to a shared endeavour of promoting
the best possible outcomes for the people of
Norfolk?
• Please distinguish between who is bringing what
(VCSE, Public, Both)
• Please separate areas where there is agreement
(both see as role and happy to provide) or areas
where further discussion is required (caveats or
disagreement)
• How do we take them forward?
– Area
– Or discussion about the area

19. 1. Making the best use of grassroots community activity
& develop new
2. Shared strategic planning, intelligence,
evidence/impact
3. Engaging/connected to people (focus low need &
prevention)
4. Information sharing around individual cases
5. Navigating through the support system better (once
in it)
6. 6
7. Assets, investment and competition, shared models
Who else need to be round the table?
What is local, county etc?

20. • Part 1
– What do we need to enable people to do
– What barriers do we need to remove
• Part 2
– What support enables both of these in the
long and short term
– Who is best placed to deliver what and what
will help this happen

21. Prevention is better than cure…

22. • Children and Young People are Healthy &
Resilient
• Children and Young People are Safe and
Well Cared For
• Children and Young People Develop,
Learn and Achieve
• Children and Young People are ready for
Adult Life
Early Help

23. • Looking after yourself
– Involvement in your community
– Getting information and advice
• Keeping well and recovering your
wellbeing
– Getting early help when you need it
– Getting better after being ill
• Living with complex health and care needs
– Managing your long term health condition
– Getting support for your complex needs
Living Independently in later life