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year around the need for longer term funding, core funding, strategic commissioning and funding/procurement

Too often, organisations interpret being data-driven as a procurement process.,Procurement might be what’s needed at some point - but it’s unlikely to be what’s needed first.As well

Traditional approaches to commissioning and procurement, coupled with financial pressures on councils,More talking and negotiating, rather than formal commissioning and procuring.,This open conversation – as opposed to the transactional nature of a classic procurement process (where,As part of this, the council looked to reform the way it was procuring its youth work services.,At this time, the area’s youth work services were procured in the traditional fashion, but Kevin Wells

Continuing to open up procurement and initiatives like Community Wealth Building is essential.

Community benefit clause: increasing the use of the clause in procurement contracts could be an incentive

for its conclusions to be made available before the end of this parliamentary session.’Rethinking procurement,: There must be a significant shift to person-centred procurement models that put the needs of beneficiaries

Rethinking procurement: There must be a significant shift to person-centred procurement models that put,Rethinking procurement There must be a significant shift to person-centred procurement models that put,Existing procurement models often do not respect the harsh realities that voluntary organisations are,Traditional procurement models also do not take account of the capacity issues felt by many specialist,Local Equality Impact Assessments on procurement must take this into serious consideration.

too long about the need for a more common-sense approach to funding, that looks past traditional procurement-based

agreements, and other arrangements causing as many complaints in my conversations with members as procurement