We worked with the Shropshire VCS Assembly to develop the Change and Compact Group. The aim of the group is to secure voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) engagement at an early stage of service redesign and strategic change.

The group focuses on identifying where VCSE engagement needed to be organised to generate co-production, and provide us with independent challenge and community expertise.

Public sector commissioners from a range of organisations are involved in the work of the group including Shropshire Clinical Commissioning Group, West Mercia Police and Crime Commissioner’s Office and Shropshire Association of Local Councils.

The group has been actively involved in supporting a range of projects and programmes, including the development of market position statements, Shropshire’s Big Conversation and the Cabinet Office-led Learning Programme for Social Action. The group also works to share up-to-date information across the public and voluntary sectors.