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In December 2013 the Treasury released a discussion paper on the topic of contracting for social services.
The paper draws its key themes directly from conversations with a number of non-government providers of social services. It analyses the social sector contracting environment from the perspective of an economic market.
The paper identifies four key areas for improvement:
- Managing contracting risks
- Higher quality information
- Target the burden of collecting, researching and reporting on NGOs’ performance
- Improve the transparency of government processes
- Better determination of the balance of what is delivered directly and what is contracted out, and
- Processes to agree outcomes and maximise NGO ownership of final outcomes.
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