1. Championing Champions: the Big Society
Isobel Mills, Deputy Director, Government Office for Yorkshire and The Humber

2. Championing Champions: the Big Society
About the Big Society
Key components
Doing it already?
Positioning Community Health Champions
Things to think about

3. About the Big Society
Too much centralism has squashed creativity and common sense
Smarter state, simpler state
Doing everything at the lowest possible level
Giving away power – to local institutions, communities, individuals…
…and with it more responsibility to co-create better quality of life

4. Key components Removing bureaucratic burdens
Empowering citizens and neighbourhoods
Enhancing local democratic accountability
Transparent local information about costs and services
Encouraging local control of public spending
Stimulating more diverse local service suppliers

5. Doing it already – empowering citizens and neighbourhoods
Neighbourhood management
Transfer of assets
New forms of community involvement
Community Empowerment Panel

6. Doing it already – more diverse local service suppliers
A number of YH areas involved in community budgets – four trialling community-led commissioning
Strong social enterprise tradition
Strong partnerships
Strong charity, SE, voluntary and community sector
Highly innovative

7. Doing it already – encouraging local control of public spending
Taking choices around spend out to communities
Personalisation and individual budgets
Lots of experience of participatory budgeting
…but still around discretionary funding

8. Positioning Community Health Champions
Great examples of loved community buildings kept in use…
…role for health champions in neighbourhood services

9. Positioning Community Health Champions
Tackling social isolation…
…by building support around people and families

10. Positioning Community Health Champions
Innovative models of structures – like award winning social enterprises…
…is there a new model for health champions?

11. Positioning Community Health Champions: keep your eyes on…
Neighbourhood planning
Transition Fund
Community Organisers
Localism Bill
New forms of social finance and partnering
Green Paper on Modernising Commissioning

12. Things to think about What are the issues, concerns and challenges?
How we do support the most vulnerable (people, places)?
If we get away from the idea of the state as the single source of help –what does it mean for capacity?
What is the role of Community Health Champions…
…and where does GP Commissioning fit?

13. Finally…
Any fool can make things bigger, more complex and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction
Albert Einstein