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East Midlands Market Development Board

East Midlands Market Development Board. The importance of micro social care enterprise to a diverse market able to offer personalised services Sian Lockwood Chief Executive, NAAPS UK. What is NAAPS?.

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East Midlands Market Development Board

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  1. East Midlands Market Development Board The importance of micro social care enterprise to a diverse market able to offer personalised services Sian Lockwood Chief Executive, NAAPS UK

  2. What is NAAPS? NAAPS is a UK Charity that supports and represents very small (micro) family and community based services

  3. Self Directed Support? • Giving people control of their money is only half the answer • Not everyone wants to employ their own staff • There must also be a wide range of services of all shapes and sizes for people to choose from

  4. NAAPS definition of micro services Services that are: • Providing support or care to people in their community • Delivered by 5 or fewer workers – paid or unpaid • Independent of any larger organisation

  5. Examples of micro services • Supported tenancies • Small residential care homes • Day services • Leisure services • Support to people living in their own homes • Holidays and short breaks • Friendship or good neighbour • Drop in centres and lunch clubs • Advice and representation • Personal development

  6. Who are the providers? • A range of business models: sole trader, partnership, small business, social enterprise, not for profit, charity or voluntary organisation • May be delivered on an informal, voluntary or barter basis • May need to generate income to cover costs or to earn a salary • May employ a small number of staff • Many directly deliver support themselves and have no staff • Full time or occasional - fitting in with other employment, personal, caring responsibilities or study. • Established or new and emerging

  7. What can micro services offer service users? • Personal and tailored • Flexible and responsive to change • Choice and diversity • Co-produced • Firmly rooted in communities with a good understanding of local issues.Local services for local people provided by local people • A service that is based on relationships and will therefore “stick with people”

  8. What can micro services offer local authorities? • Add choice and diversity to a market often dominated by a few larger providers • Help achieve National Indicators (including those not often associated with social care) and targets: stronger communities, adult health and wellbeing, economic regeneration • Demonstrate entrepreneurialism, innovation, and creativity and encourage others to set up services

  9. Example Local Area Agreement National Indicators • Adult participation in active recreation (NI 8) • Social Care clients receiving Self Directed Support (NI 130) • People supported to live independently (NI 136) • % vulnerable people supported to maintain independent living (NI 146) • Working age people on out of work benefits (NI153) • Per capita CO2 emissions (NI 186)

  10. The Challenge - a shrinking market • The way in which services are supported, regulated and commissioned has forced many good ‘micro services’ to close. • It is unattractive or impossible for new and emerging providers to enter the market

  11. Examples of barriers faced • Commissioning practice • Disproportionate or inappropriate regulation and rules • Knowing what people want to buy • Accessing advice and information • Affordable, appropriate insurance • Start up funding • Workforce training and development

  12. A spontaneous market response? • There is a view that new services will emerge spontaneously in response to the growing number of people with their own budget • Our experience indicates that this does not happen easily in an area of work so fraught with regulation, red tape and volatility • Providers need information, advice and some certainty before they will take the huge step of setting up a new enterprise or transforming an existing service

  13. The NAAPS micro market project • Funded by DH • Has successfully piloted a local agency model of support for existing and new micro providers • Learning from pilot areas (Oldham and Kent) has informed a Practical Guide which organisations can use to set up an agency to support micro providers • Is now developing and testing a kite mark for microproviders

  14. Lessons from Phase 1 of the project • Many barriers to micro social enterprise can be overcome with good local agency support BUT • Some barriers are caused by legislation, regulation and government strategies and need to be resolved nationally • NAAPS is working both to support and advise on the support agency model whilst also tackling wider national issues

  15. Practical Guide • 3 versions – key messages, concise (24 pages), detailed (96 pages) • Part of the DH personalisation toolkit • Can be found at: http://www.dhcarenetworks.org.uk/Personalisation/Topics/Browse/Commissionersandproviders/?parent=2735&child=5784

  16. Phase 2 NAAPS is developing and testing a kite mark for micro social care enterprise that will: • Allow providers to demonstrate their quality and continuously improve • Allow customers to judge safety and quality • Be simple, cheap and easy to use to ensure good take up

  17. Supporting local authorities to support micro enterprise The NAAPS Social Enterprise offers tailored support including: • Help with scoping and strategic planning • Support to establish an agency • Support to the agency to become established and effective • Direct establishment and management of a support agency on behalf of the local authority

  18. Further information? Sian Lockwood NAAPS Chief Executive sian@naaps.org.uk

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