HAVE you noticed our city is going through a period of significant transformation?
The City of Edinburgh Council has made the decision to shift from a traditional, somewhat paternalist position as ‘the deliverer of every service people need’ to a more contemporary, enabling attitude of ‘we’ll help support communities, because People (not complex power hierarchies) build better lives.’
Simultaneously, the Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act – more commonly known as Integration (of Health with Social Care) Legislation – includes the imperative that (Health and Care) services Must be delivered via at least two localities for every Integrated Joint Board (one IJB covers the City of Edinburgh).
Edinburgh has agreed to re-shape service-delivery boundaries, dividing the city into four quadrants, commonly called ‘localities’. The two major drivers of this shift are the Integration of Health and Social Care and the City of Edinburgh Council’s BOLD (Better Outcomes, Leaner Delivery) programme.
We have published some information about the BOLD programme, as well as on the Integration agenda on our website. We hope you’ll find this information useful.
We, at EVOC, are committed to bringing the city’s Third Sector together to consider what some of these changes are, how they might affect our organisations and the communities we work with, and – crucially – how you would like us to further shape the development of both strands of work.
To engage, to inform, and to gather your views we will deliver a series of four thinkSpace events being held in the various localities, and you are welcome to join us for whichever one(s) you would like.
During the two-and-a-half-hour sessions we will hear from partners from the Integration and the Bold teams, and we will share with you our own plans for engaging with the local Third Sector as these two complementary workstreams develop. Tell us what you like, and tell us what you don’t like. We want to hear what you think will be helpful, and we want to hear what your expectations of EVOC are.
Please take a moment to register for your chosen event(s). If you have any questions just email Dianne Morrison in the first instance.
We are determined to do whatever we can to ensure that the city’s Third Sector is influential through these changes, that our Public Sector partners are clear what we think, and that your needs – and the needs of the people you work with – remain at the heart of planning and delivering these transformational changes.
You can find Milind on Twitter @evoc_milind
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