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Last updated: 25 March 2010
Rt Hon Anne McGuire MP was appointed the Cabinet Office’s Advisor on Third Sector Innovation in November 2008 and served in the role until March 2010.
Reporting to Cabinet Office Ministers, she considered the third sector’s role in the design and delivery of more personalised public services.
Anne McGuire’s work focused on three service areas:
In February 2010 Anne McGuire published her first report, The Role of the Third Sector: Personalisation of Heath and Social Care and Services to Reduce Re-offending. With third sector engagement throughout the development of the recommendations, the report sets out recommendations to maximise the potential contribution of the third sector to the personalisation of services within these areas.
Recommendations relate to supporting individuals to a point where they are able to make genuine choices; enabling the co-production of services; funding preventative services; measuring the value of service user engagement; and ensuring a vibrant market of services is developed. There is also a key need for the third sector and government to develop a common dialogue on how personalisation can be driven forward.
In March 2010, Anne McGuire published her second report, The Role of the Third Sector: Personalisation of Education and learning Services. The report recognises the role of the third sector in delivering personalised learning opportunities, either in their own right, or in partnership with schools and colleges. It also highlights the important role the third sector plays in driving forward innovation in this sector, informing, supporting, shaping and stimulating service improvement and redesign. Recommendations focus on how the Government can support third sector organisations to demonstrate the value of their work; how Government initiatives could be brought together to make the most of what the third sector has to offer, and how innovation in the third sector can be supported and its full potential realised.
In March 2010, the Government published a response to both of Anne McGuire's reports. The response welcomes Anne's recommendations and outlines how the Government will take them forward.