Health and social care contracts present the biggest growth potential for social enterprises and voluntary sector organisations, finds independent analysis, but they’re held back by a digital skills gap and overcomplicated processes.
Social Enterprise UK tells health minister that draft policy proposals are being interpreted by some commissioners as a message that “they should take services away from social enterprises”.
Northern Irish social enterprises have already faced more than their fair share of uncertainty and delay – and now Covid-19 threatens to derail a growing movement. Will it pull through?
'Lived experience': just another buzzword, or a basic rule of engagement? Catch22 – which runs an incubator for entrepreneurs with direct exposure to the problems they're trying to tackle – weighs in.
Social investors are still too focused on internal battles – distracting them from the huge potential impact they could have by partnering up. Big Society Capital's CEO makes the case for the (sometimes) more difficult path of collaboration.
Social issues including isolation and loneliness are increasingly putting pressure on the NHS – Joanna Hamer explains why social prescribing could be the way forward.
Although services across the country have suffered from funding cuts, a scheme in Hertfordshire is bucking the trend. Now they're getting a helping hand in combatting loneliness and enabling people to live independent lives.
Big Society Capital's Matt Robinson calls for the next UK government to conduct a social outcomes based spending review in 2015 to help make taxpayers' money go further and reduce health inequality throughout the country.
