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We Need to Talk about Commissioning
We need to talk about what commissioning is. Or is not. Instead of seeing ‘commissioning’ as a process or a cycle, it may be better to see it as a set of skills, … And instead of seeing it as something that a small team of people – the ‘commissioners’ – ‘do’ in the world,…
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The stories we tell: what does the VCSE talk about when it talks about commissioning?
‘Yeah, I know … they say they want to get better, want to treat us as equals but they don’t seem to change much. Too obsessed with their own stuff’ she pauses, watches the remnants of the earlier shower drip from the moss overflowing the gutter while the words come, ‘I doubt they intend it…
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Mythical beasts: commissioning with the charity sector
‘Well, good luck’ The parting words of … is it advice? … from a colleague after they listened patiently to me explain how a small group of people working in the voluntary, social enterprise and community sector want to change public sector commissioning. I doubt luck has much to do with it. Though it would…