ACEVO COmmission on Personalisation Interim Report Launch16 November 2009
 The ACEVO Commission on Personalisation have launched their interim report, ‘Making it Personal: A Social Market Revolution’ at an event hosted by the Royal Bank of Scotland.
The audience, made up of ACEVO members, representatives from leading think tanks, Government officials and the media, were given an overview of the report’s key recommendations before hearing about how personalisation is working in practice for children with learning difficulties and adults affected by mental illness. Matthew Pike, Chair of the Commission, spoke about the importance of the current political consensus in support of personalisation before calling on the Government to set a clear implementation timetable, provide sufficient levels of investment and strong leadership to ensure that the full benefits of these reforms can be realised. He was joined by Councillor Lorna Campbell who announced Lambeth Council’s decision to work with ACEVO to capacity build the local third sector for personalisation. The interim report details the bold reforms that are necessary to “revolutionise the delivery of public services, by devolving power and responsibility from state to citizen”. It recommends the creation of a “series of social markets where people can choose from an increasing range of providers”. This system change has the potential to achieve real cost-efficiency, providing an opportunity to stop funding services that aren’t needed, wanted or delivering quality; joined up spending; enable more self-help and mutual aid; encourage more private investment into the system; place more emphasis on prevention; and use carefully managed market forces to allow good services to drive out bad over time. Download the Full Report [PDF, 4MB] Over the next 10 months the Commission are looking to build on the recommendations in the interim report, producing a final report to be delivered to the Cabinet Office in Autumn 2010. ACEVO will be hosting a series of workshops to receive feedback on the interim report and suggestions for the future direction of the Commission with members, service users, Government officials etc. We would also welcome written submissions on the report. If you would like to be involved in the next phase of the Commission’s work, please contact Amy Richards. << Return to previous page
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