Are you interested in helping Hackney CVS build a consortium which may help to secure contracts for the borough’s local providers?

City & Hackney Health & Social Care Forum (HSCF) has two representative places on the shadow board of the SPV.

If I’m selected, what would I be doing?  

Hackney CVS is working on the development of a Special Purpose Vehicle [SPV] which will be able to deliver public service contracts and subcontract to other not for profit/VCS providers of adult social care, health and wellbeing.

The primary goal of the SPV will be to improve the quality of life of local people, especially those who are most in need, through the provision of high quality, responsive, generalist and specialist services.

Why is Hackney CVS doing this?

We believe it is in the interest of local people to retain the expertise of local organisations which have locally rooted values and a social investment in the borough.

The benefit of this model will allow small organisations to get on with what they do best – delivering services – and let someone else take the strain of monitoring, negotiating and all the rest of it. 

Local providers, if tendering alone, may not have the appropriate organisational capacity to compete with large national organisations that have teams dedicated to winning contracts. Also, organisations based outside Hackney will not be able to adequately reach and provide services to local communities, especially those representing marginalised and diverse ethnic communities, or at the very least, will have to spend much time rebuilding an infrastructure that is already in place. Thus we think it best to invest in what is already here: a demonstrable track record and effective networks in place.

What are we looking for at this point?

This SPV will eventually require a governance structure. In the interim, we are setting up a Shadow Board comprised of as wide a range as possible of health and social care providers. Ideally we are looking for people who are decision makers in their own organisation, i.e. senior management/director level.  If you are interested in helping us with the setting up of this potentially significant development in securing resources for Hackney, then please fill in the attached application form and return it to hscf@hcvs.org.uk by 12 noon on the 1^st August.  Representatives will be selected on the basis of the application forms by a panel of HSCF Steering Group members.  

How much time will be required?

There is no escaping the fact that this will be a fairly intensive piece of work in the first phase – you will need to commit 3 solid days to meetings either August 10^th, 11^th, 12^th or September 07^th, 08^th, 09^th.

This workload may reduce a bit in the autumn but it will still be a major responsibility for the rest of this year.

I’m interested – who can I talk to before I say so formally?

Contact Rebecca Clarkson on 020 7923 1962 or email rebecca@hcvs.org.uk