Welcome to the PSP Project
Public Social Partnerships (PSPs) are an innovative approach to public service delivery, involving enterprising third sector organisations. The PSP model has great potential to benefit the third sector and the public sector in Scotland, and to improve outcomes for service users, clients and communities.
The Scottish Government has selected a consortium of social enterprise, Forth Sector, and consultants, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, to identify and then develop 10 PSPs to provide co-planning and delivery of services to local communities over the next two years.
The PSP Scotland Project comprises three stages:
- Third sector organisations working with public sector purchasers to design a service;
- A consortium of public sector and third sector organisations participating in a short-term pilot, helping to refine service delivery parameters;
- The service is further developed to maximise community benefit before being competitively tendered.
This site is to provide more information about PSPs and to provide updates on the PSP pilots, which the project is supporting over an 18-month period from November 2009.
The Scottish Government's Public Social Partnership Project, delivered in partnership with PricewaterhouseCoopers and Forth Sector.
