The Alternative Provider Collaborative (APC) Convention: Social Value: What is The Point?
The Alternative Provider Collaborative (APC) Convention will be co-hosted by APC Exec Chair, Edna Robinson, GMCA Prevention Demonstrator Director, Warren Heppolette and NHS GM Deputy Chief Exec, Colin Scales.
This year we explore Social value: What Is The Point? Asking what Social Value truly means for communities, how it is embedded in commissioning and why it must be central to system design. Confirmed guests include GMCA Chief Exec - Caroline Simpson, Cllr Arooj Shah (Leader of Oldham Council and GM lead for Equalities and Communities), Sir Richard Leese GM ICB Chair and Mayor Andy Burnham (TBC) along with other senior members of the Greater Manchester Integrated Care System.
On the day APC Partners, System Partners and commissioners will come together to:
- Showcase organisation delivering quality services with social value at their heart.
- Engage in deep-dive conversations about commissioning for real impact and equity.
- Reinforcing that social value benefits people and communities — not just systems.
- Celebrate or the good practice of the APC.
Expect powerful discussions, healthy disagreements, recognition moments, and opportunities to shape what comes next for the APC and our collective vision for Greater Manchester.
