ABCD in Practice: Vintage Communities Case Study Burcu Borysik Research and Policy Coordinator at Sitra burcub@sitra.org
About Sitra We champion excellence in housing, support, care and health, in order to: • Promote positive outcomes for service users, providers and funders • Drive the policy agenda • Encourage a healthy, diverse and sustainable sector • Support quality and professionalisation
The Commission • Evaluation of two pilot project sites in Balham and Barking and Dagenham • Are we able ‘to create self sustaining initiatives to fulfil the aspirations of the community’? • Triangulation of resources including a desktop review, field- notes and finally semi- structured in-depth interviews with participants
• Care Act 2014: An opportunity to Commissioning recognise asset-based approaches, for ABCD and build bridges between housing, health and care • Outcomes based commissioning • Finding connectors is more difficult than literature suggests • Never under-estimate the power of grape-vine... • The role boundaries of councillors and formal institutions should be clearly mapped out • Local facilities need to be evaluated • Organic growth • Equal partnership
Practicing ABCD • Both sites demonstrate the capacity of ABCD to deliver a citizen-led approach • Being recognised and valued as active partners • Making friends.... Not the simplest of outcomes • External assistance? Nothing to shy from! • The importance of leadership in communities
• Personal rather than professional Withdrawing relationship. Support • Need for a more structured and staged devolvement. • Low levels of support • Links with established community-based organisations, including housing, timebanking
Opportunities • Social capital reduces the need for statutory services • Savings to public’s purse can be made • ABCD is just the next step to recognise resource and utilise individuals’ expertise in not just services but in wider community. • Sincere opportunity for bridging the seemingly separate islands of health, housing and care
Risks • Outcomes-based commissioning and PBR • ‘Hitting the target but missing the point’? • Delivering outcomes within rigid time frames • Complementary but not substitute to public services
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