I was invited to speak at the Legal Futures Conference today (some interesting conference trending on Twitter at #lfconf). I was focusing on how the ABS reforms (alternative business structures) might impact on the legal aid market. There were some interesting … View Complete Post
Posted in 4Governments, Blogs, Innovative funding for our work |Tagged ABS Reforms, Legal Aid, Legal Futures Conference, Legal Services Market |You may have seen the article in the FT on 8th March, entitled ‘Welfare to work contract goals doubted’. [You can read the article here.] I read it with interest and whilst many of the issue raised were relevant, I … View Complete Post
Posted in 4Governments, Blogs, Innovative funding for our work |Tagged Financial Times, invest to save, payment by results, Welfare to Work |I wrote a blog recently (http://www.mya4e.com/2011/02/16/social-investment-summit-brilliant-start-so-much-more-to-do/) on the launch of the Big Society Bank and the government’s vision for social investment. There are some good ideas in their strategy document. This is an issue close to my heart given the … View Complete Post
Posted in 4Governments, Blogs, Growth, entrepreneurialism and thriving places, Innovative funding for our work, Social justice and routes out of poverty |Tagged Big Society Bank, Enterprise, Outcome Funding, Social Investment |David Cameron recently announced the headlines http://www.number10.gov.uk/news/latest-news/2011/02/pm-sets-out-vision-for-public-services-reform-60932 from the forthcoming White Paper on public service reform. Alongside our work on Total Person, a concept we have been advocating over the last 3 or 4 years is ‘licensing and personal budgets’. … View Complete Post
Posted in 4Governments, Blogs, Innovative funding for our work, Social justice and routes out of poverty |Tagged Cameron, Licencing, Personalisation, Public Service Reform, Total Person |I was at the Social Investment Summit on Monday. Hosted and co-launched by JP Morgan, the social investment ‘movement’ was given some profile and impetus by Francis Maude and Nick Hurd in launching their vision for a new model of … View Complete Post
Posted in 4Governments, Blogs, Innovative funding for our work |Tagged Big Society Bank, Social Business Model, Social Investment, Social Values |Further to the recent FT article ‘Clegg Tackles Banks on Social Investing’ , I thought I’d summarise my thoughts around this. It is going to take courage. It will require change. The public sector must change. Finance institutions must change. … View Complete Post
Posted in Blogs, Innovative funding for our work |Tagged reform, Social Investment, welfare |
The government has decided it does not want to create a state backed bank via the Post Office. The suggestion is that joint ventures with the high street banks are the way forward. On a commercial basis this is a … View Complete Post
Posted in Blogs, Innovative funding for our work |Tagged banks, money, Post Office, Post Office Bank, Total Person |
I’ve blogged before on our ideas around being a Social Purpose Company. We have been doing some work to share our ideas on what this means in terms of the values of A4e and the way we want to work … View Complete Post
Posted in Blogs, Innovative funding for our work |Tagged careers service, CBI, CSR, Financial Times, Social Purpose Company |
