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Wanted: Public and private partnership on the way ahead
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From Lesley Harrison,
Chairman, Prison! Me! No Way!
AS Celia Jeune rightly said in her Our Island article (JEP, 6 June), Jersey is extremely fortunate to have such an active voluntary sector, with many who without question make a significant contribution to the Island, and I do believe that the States of Jersey are starting to recognise the benefits and are seeking to engage with those organisations.
However, the vision is one that is not shared by all, and there is a need for cultural change within the States and a driver who will look to develop partnerships, where appropriate, to ensure that there are more strategic alliances between the public and private sectors to reflect the ever-changing needs of our small Island and economy.
The States of Jersey strategic plan has some ambitious objectives and a distinct lack of resource and funding to achieve some of them within the required timeframes, and within the voluntary sector there are organisations who can bring not just skilled resources, but corporate funding to the table where a true strategic alliance with a balanced partnership working to mutually agreed objectives can be formed.
I am chairman of Prison! Me! No Way! Jersey, which is a joint police and prison initiative and a Jersey-registered charity whose aims are to raise the awareness of young people in the Island about the causes, consequences and penalties of crime by using a non-threatening and non-lecturing style of education.
We hope to dissuade young people from living a life of crime by using a multi-agency approach which will give young people information enabling them to make informed life choices to help them to grow into responsible citizens and, it is hoped, reduce the devastating effects of criminal behaviour on society.
PMNW was formed as a Jersey-registered charity in 2005 and thanks to a vision shared by the three ministers Wendy Kinnard, Mike Vibert and Terry Le Main and the ongoing support of Chief Officer Graham Power at the States of Jersey Police, HMP La Moye governor Bill Millar, Chief Fire Officer Mark James and Chief Ambulance Officer John Moulin, we formed a strategic alliance with Home Affairs, Education, Sport and Culture and Housing and the Lloyds TSB Foundation.
It is a genuine partnership and a happy one which works for the benefit of those who have committed themselves to it and the overall community.
The model PMNW used is a social enterprise model – a very simplistic model where business strategies are applied to generate social value to the relationship. It is a business model which offers the prospect of greater economic power and a more sustainable society by combining market efficiency with social and environmental needs.
Recent government data suggest that there are more than 55,000 social enterprises in the UK with a combined turnover of £27 billion – larger than the GDP of Luxembourg. Social enterprises account for 5% of all businesses with employees and contribute £8.4 billion a year to the UK economy – a significant contribution to the ‘third bottom line’.
The Cabinet Office at the centre of UK government has formed an Office of the Third Sector, responsible for supporting and developing government policy for the third sector, including voluntary and community organisations, charities and social enterprise in recognition of the increasingly important role the third sector plays in both society and the economy.
The Economic Development Department has created Jersey Enterprise and drafted a strategy to address the development of skills within the Island along with new business start-ups, business growth, investment and high-wealth individuals. Surely there must be potential to include a strategy for social enterprise to harness those relevant organisations within the voluntary sector who have social entrepreneurs who can bring innovative ideas and a ‘can do’ approach to achieve some of those ambitious objectives in the States’ Strategic Plan?
It would require commitment from the States of Jersey at ministerial and departmental level and a strategy which would foster a culture of the benefits of true strategic alliances between the public and private sectors and allow for a balanced partnership working to mutual objectives – basically, good old-fashioned ‘joined-up thinking’!
PO Box 746,
St Helier.
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