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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