Reduction in Public Expenditure and its effects VOL Secsupporting Adult Services
05-07-2010 15:50
Current year funding cuts affecting voluntary sector organisations funded by NYCC Adult and Community Services At a meeting of the Voluntary Sector Liaison Group on 22nd June, voluntary sector local support and development organisations (LSDOs*) were informed by Seamus Breen, Assistant Director Commissioning and Partnership, that Adult and Community Services (ACS) intend to cut £300,000 from existing voluntary sector funding agreements in the current, 2010/11 financial year. This was explained as a result of substantial reductions in this year’s Government funding to the County Council. They expect that further cuts will be necessary in future years. The LSDOs agreed to help pass on the information to voluntary and community sector organisations. What ACS are doing:The attached briefing from Seamus Breen provides background information on overall budget cuts and some information about how ACS will decide on how the voluntary sector cuts will be distributed. In brief:1. They are inviting organisations to suggest how savings could be made. This could be from individual funding, or from ‘efficiencies’ achieved through collaborative working between organisations. You are asked to feed any proposals for savings back to ACS through your local support and development organisation.2. ACS will also look themselves at options for reducing voluntary sector funding, taking into account:a. ACS priorities and the most critical needs of adults in the communityb. The amount of funding that organisations receive and their potential capacity to ‘deliver efficiencies’c. Areas of service which are regarded as ‘desirable’ rather than ‘essential’ in the light of Government funding cutsd. The risk that some service provision may cost more in the medium term if cuts are made now.They will explore this during July, and then provide further information to the sector. What NYFVO and LSDOs* are doing:We are acting as an information channel between ACS and voluntary sector organisations. An information page will shortly be available on the www.nyfvo.org.uk website.We will send out further information as it becomes available.We will support voluntary sector organisations that are or may be affected by cuts, through our information and advice services and through bringing organisations together to consider collective responses. What you can do:If you receive ACS funding please get in touch with NYFVO and/or your LSDO – email nyfvo@nyfvo.org.uk or see the link below. This will enable us to send on further information to you as quickly as possible.Please tell us:*Organisation; contact name; email address; phone number.*What services you are funded to provide, in what areas. And, if possible:*Whether any savings in your current funding are possible.*Whether you would consider collaborative working to achieve savings.*What effect cuts in your funding would have on your service users.*Whether you can think of savings that could be possible in ACS-delivered services, if delivery was transferred to the voluntary sector. * Local Support and Development Organisations (LSDOs) were previously known as ‘local infrastructure organisations’. You may know yours as the local Council for Voluntary Service, Voluntary Action, or Community Care Association. A full list of these and the areas they cover can be found at http://www.nyfvo.org.uk/index.php/lios.html . Kate TaylerChief ExecutiveNorth Yorkshire Forum for Voluntary OrganisationsThe Hawk Creative Business ParkHawkhills EstateEasingwoldYork YO61 3FETel 01347 825710 Mobile 07738 456782Fax 01347 824246Email: kate.tayler@nyfvo.org.ukWeb: www.nyfvo.org.uk Registered Charity number 518117 -----Original Message-----
From: Seamus Breen 1st July
Subject: Reduction in Public Expenditure and its effects VOL Secsupporting Adult Services Following ACS Executive Meeting this am Cllr. Chris Metcalfe, ACS Portfolio Holder and Derek Law, Corporate Director, authorised the attached briefing to go out to North Yorkshire Forum for Voluntary Organisations (NYFVO) and the Local Infrastructure Organisations (LIOs) as representatives who come to our liaison meetings with the Voluntary Sector. They, as infrastructure organisations, in turn agreed at our last joint meeting to use their various bulletins and communications to bring the briefing to the attention of the front line voluntary organisation services they support. We are encouraging the sector to contribute proposals for reductions in costs this year. Should these proposals be insufficient to meet the required targets then a decision making framework for delivering reductions in costs is outlined in the attached document. We cannot at this stage say for certain what the effects will be next year and the year after and must together await the Comprehensive Spending Review in the Autumn. While regretting the need to consider reductions in Voluntary Sector budgets within this financial year the ACS Directorate, in reconfiguring and transforming how it delivers its own services, see the possibility of new opportunities for service delivery being made available to third sector. Seamus Breen Assistant Director - Commissioning and Partnership,Rm 255 County Hall, Northallerton,North Yorkshire. DL7 8DDLand Line: 01609533622Mobile: 07890560903seamus.breen@northyorks.gov.uk Support - Tina HandleyTel: 01609532535tina.handley@northyorks.gov.uk
From: Seamus Breen 1st July
Subject: Reduction in Public Expenditure and its effects VOL Secsupporting Adult Services Following ACS Executive Meeting this am Cllr. Chris Metcalfe, ACS Portfolio Holder and Derek Law, Corporate Director, authorised the attached briefing to go out to North Yorkshire Forum for Voluntary Organisations (NYFVO) and the Local Infrastructure Organisations (LIOs) as representatives who come to our liaison meetings with the Voluntary Sector. They, as infrastructure organisations, in turn agreed at our last joint meeting to use their various bulletins and communications to bring the briefing to the attention of the front line voluntary organisation services they support. We are encouraging the sector to contribute proposals for reductions in costs this year. Should these proposals be insufficient to meet the required targets then a decision making framework for delivering reductions in costs is outlined in the attached document. We cannot at this stage say for certain what the effects will be next year and the year after and must together await the Comprehensive Spending Review in the Autumn. While regretting the need to consider reductions in Voluntary Sector budgets within this financial year the ACS Directorate, in reconfiguring and transforming how it delivers its own services, see the possibility of new opportunities for service delivery being made available to third sector. Seamus Breen Assistant Director - Commissioning and Partnership,Rm 255 County Hall, Northallerton,North Yorkshire. DL7 8DDLand Line: 01609533622Mobile: 07890560903seamus.breen@northyorks.gov.uk Support - Tina HandleyTel: 01609532535tina.handley@northyorks.gov.uk