Billy Watson

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• Billy Watson
• Chief Executive
• Scottish Association for Mental Health

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• Scotlands leading Mental Health Charity
• 84 Services
• 24 Local Authority Areas
• 3 National Programmes
• 900 staff
• 25m Local Authority Contract Income
• 3500 service users per week 20,000 hours
• of support per week

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STRATEGIC DIRECTION?

• CONCORDAT
• S.O.AS FLEXIBILITY
• C.P.PS
• THIRD SECTOR PAIN ???

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STRATEGIC DIRECTION?

• From Commissioning to Procurement?
• From Relationship to Partnership
• to Supply Chain?
• From Trusted Partner to Provider of Last Resort?

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Operational Challenges Macro

• 15 National Outcomes 45 National Indicators
• 32 Local Authorities 3600 Indicators!!
• 58 of Vol. Orgs have had no uplift
• 39 have had funding reduction
• 50 anticipate cuts for 09/10
• and this is before mass short-term tendering!?

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Operational Challenges Micro

• TUPE / TCS / EQUAL PAY
• CULTURAL TIMEBOMB
• CONTRACTING - E-PROCUREMENT
• - BLOCK
• - COST VOLUME
• - CALL OFF
• - LADBROKES LINE?
• COLLECTIVE REDUNDANCIES
• - NO NATIONAL OUTCRY

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It Doesnt Need To Be This Way

• EU regulations meant that we have to put all our
  services of public interest out to competitive
  tender.
• EU Regulations specifically exclude services for
  the public benefit from the equal opportunities
  guidelines. They must not be used as a means of
  reducing quality to users.
• Jorge Cesar Neves,
• EU Health Social Services Commissioner,
• Brussels, January 2009

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Third Sector Landscapes

• Over Populated and Fragmented
• Local Authority Cash Cows
• Third Sector as the Bank
• Significant UK / Scottish Differences
• Unsustainable Business Models

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Third Sector Landscapes

• Added Value
• Innovation
• Service Development
• Voice of Users
• Policy and Influence

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A Shared Strategic Future

• Social Economies 8.6 billion in
• Mental Health Alone
• National Localisation
  Personalisation
• - A Shared Formula to Crack the Dichotomy
• From 1 Year Contracts to 10 Year Societal Change