Social Value Ethos
This publication focuses on the journeys of a snapshot of public sector entrepreneurs who have spun out their services; and looks at how they have used the change as a positive process to embed an ethos of social value across their staff and users.
For anyone who is considering joining this band of public sector leaders, we hope that this publication will help you both frame your change journey, as well as to map out crucial aspects of the potential journey ahead: learning from practitioners who have been where you are right now and taken the crucial next steps.
Read more in-depth interviews from the case studies.
Invitation to contribute to this paper and the debate on social value ethos.
This publication is not intended as the definitive word on enshrining social value across the people who manage and deliver services. In fact, we want this Starting Point Paper to be just that – to stimulate a conversation with practitioners, users and policymakers about what kind of public services we want and need, and how we can ensure that the principles of creating social value can be embedded into new public service spin-outs.
You can join our conversation by leaving your thoughts, comments and spin-out experiences in the box below:
First of all
This is a very interesting publication. I haven’t seen anything else which captures the ‘Why?’ question around the spin out agenda – this goes some way to it. As someone who has been thinking about setting up a spun out waste management service outside the public sector this gives me a strong basis from which to move forward quite practically on that.
Secondly
I really enjoyed the case studies and would like to see more -is that something that will be coming from the Institute?
Thirdly
A question – just how much potential is there in this agenda? Are there the right wider conditions for this to be a flood rather than what seems at times like a trickle at the moment?
Rob
Rob,
Thanks very much for leaving your comment – and for the positive feedback on the publication. There will certainly be more case studies coming from us, so please do watch this space – you can keep an eye on the website, use the sign-up tab on the menu bar to receive our regular bulletins, or follow us on Twitter or LinkedIn.
In response to your question about this agenda, I would agree with the sentiment that there has been no ‘big-bang’ of public service spin-outs.
This could be seen as either a help or a hindrance to be honest – it is, at the moment, allowing those in the process of spinning-out (or those who have spun out already) the time and space away from the political fervour that would inevitably come with a ‘big-bang’ approach.
That said, we here at the TI will be supporting people on the ground to develop their thinking and ideas, and hope that we can play a role in building momentum behind the social value spin-out agenda.
I am sure it will be a long process, at times complex and difficult to navigate, but if we and our emerging networks of practitioners like yourself need any proof that this agenda is the right one, or any inspiration to get us there, then we need look no further than the case studies in the publication.
Thanks again for getting in touch Rob – I hope to see you at a TI event soon.
All the best,
Dom
I recently saw an article on the Guardian Public Leaders network about this publication, and I am really intrigued by the idea of a new type of public service delivery mechanism.
I agree with Rob’s comment in that I have already started using the change management models outlined in the publication. I’m also using it as the basis for which to make my case to my superiors who have been asking ‘why do you want to do this?’.
My concern is that there is a lot that needs to happen for this to take off, and my conversations with colleagues who are commissioners are supportive and some of them really understand why we would do this, but others just can’t see past the commissioning framework they have been working on for the last few years.
I’m personally a bit stuck trying to see where I can move forward at the moment. Initial conversations have been positive on all sides, my team have been especially enthused, but I’m past the reading stage now and want to crack on with this. Is the Institute the place to come to?
Thanks,
JC
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