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

Commissioning for ABCD

• Care Act 2014: An opportunity to recognise asset-based approaches, 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

Withdrawing Support

• Personal rather than professional relationship.

• 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