Aveiro Session – 6
Perhaps of limited interest to many now: Group discussion on applications of the session contents. Brainstorming together: ‘what will I do with this when I go back home?’
3:15 – Budget cuts as opportunity, for organisational change, quality…
7:20 – Moving people around and making people redundant/firing.
8:10 – Stop the panic, policy leading budget cuts, not accounting.
8:40 – Black Box perception of public administration – perception of public administration inflexibility and finding external solutions. Risk of not making needed change within organisation if solutions are about using external services (Social Enterprise).
10:35 – Importance of different people profiles among staff. Value of conflict.
11:20 – Value of working with private companies as partners in training – Models of Cooperation. Stakeholders. (Avilés)
13:00 – How evaluate cooperation?
13:35 – Monetary incentives for hiring – revenue dynamics, spending to save (less budget but even less liability, so more money in the end).
17:20 – Shifting attitudes, from panic and fear to action.
18:15 – Public servants have natural desire to help and this can be channelled.
19:00 – Need for ‘co-production’ (consultation) in budget writing. Political constraints.
20:20 – Motivating people in times of change – give it meaning.
22:00 – Importance of trust, ability to try things.
23:20 – Social Enterprise as a provider of employment.
24:00 – Rennes example, 14% employment in SE.
25:50 – Problem of sustainability as French and Italian examples of SE dependent on public subsidy.
26:40 – UK example, using laws that oblige services to be supplied is an opportunity for SE. Service users can choose provider, thus there is SE opportunity.
28:30 – Employment Centres supporting companies, services that help companies and thus help generate employment.
30:00 – Forecasting skills needs.
30:20 – understanding company motivation.
32:00 – Networking with private sector.
32:20 – People not trusting public services, but maybe other actors – e.g. SE, youth worker, etc.
34:15 – ‘Hard to reach’ people and how to reach them.
35:00 – Social clauses in public procurement.
37:00 – Still comes back to solution via spending money = problem.
38:30 – Enfield regeneration generating jobs and civil servants learning to negotiate. Trading and selling services. Generic job descriptions and working in different jobs one day to another.
42:20 – Do we employ the people we are talking about?
42:50 – Savings created by getting people into work.
43:40 – Help companies hire the right people, and reduce their risk.
44:20 – Working with local college.
45:00 – Demand, lack of jobs for school leavers.
45:40 – Business creation as solution for some.
47:20 – People who ‘don’t speak the same language’ (different profiles, backgrounds). Value of university educated people and being qualified for different posts/flexible.
49.20 – Ideas we take back home