Principles met

  • We will develop systems that enable citizens to be equal partners in designing and commissioning public services and in determining the use of public resources.
  • We will support the development of a framework and criteria for social value, giving substance to the concept and supporting Councils with the tools to ensure better local social and economic outcomes.
  • In exploring new ways of meeting the priority needs of our communities we will encourage models, such as co-operatives and mutuals, which give greater influence and voice to staff and users. in designing and commissioning public services and in determining the use of public resources.

Social value models of service delivery for great social care and added social value. Demand for statutory services continues to outstrip capacity and available resources. Cwmpas is leading on a new approach to create a sustainable pattern of social care by supporting commissioners and procurement teams to invest in social value delivery models. Our approach embraces the realities of current social care markets and contract procurement regulations.

The longer-term goal of well-being legislation in Wales is for care and support services to help people to achieve great well-being outcomes. This involves embedding five principles into the work of commissioners to act ‘beyond the care market’, to explore the role of commissioning in developing community self-help activities through organisations working upstream of social care provision.

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