Third Sector and Public Services: A Comprehensive Analysis

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UNIT 23
THIRD SECTOR AND PUBLIC SERVICES
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION........................................................................................................................3
DISCUSSION..............................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION............................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES............................................................................................................................. 9
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INTRODUCTION
The range of organizations which neither belongs to the private sector nor belongs to the public
sector is termed as Third Sector organization. It includes the set of organizations such as community
and voluntary organization such as self-help group, charity groups, and community groups, Co-
operatives and social enterprises. The main aim of the development of such type of organization is
to help provides the set of facilities and services towards the set of people who are unable to access
and utilize the benefits of the types of services offered by the organization (Kearney, 2018)
The third sector serves as the main component in terms of offering the set of services and facilities
to the people at a low rate or free of cost. This type of organization includes the ability to deliver the
best set of services to the people without concentrating on the profit generation ability in an
organization. The most famous third sector organizations which deliver the set of services towards
the needy people are named as Cancer Research UK and the Salvation Army. It helps in raising
facilities and services for the people by including the public sector (Rees et al., 2017).
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DISCUSSION
An organization named as Cancer Research UK, which is defined as the largest independent cancer
research charity located in UK. The main motive of the organization is to reduce the number of
deaths caused by Cancer and the Motto is Together We will beat Cancer. As a result of the
merger of Imperial Cancer Research Fund and The Cancer Research Campaign It was
founded in 4/02/2002. The set of facilities provided by this organization includes cancer
prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
The Salvation Army, which serves to be defined as the protestant church which operates at
an international level. It includes the members of 1.7 in a global way. The organization was
founded in 1865 by William Booth and Catherine. It serves to accomplish the set of services
provided to hungry and poor people. These organizations rely on the set of contributions made
by the public and private organizations (Salamon and Sokolowski, 2016).
The third sector organizations mainly focus on the set of facilities which helps in maintaining the
lives of the people better by offering the basic standards of living. There are some organizations
which offer the education facilities to the children, some offer the clothes and food for fulfilling the
daily needs, and there are many such types of organization defined in the third sector which offers
the set of services for enhancing the living standards of the people (Fine, 2017).
SERVICES OFFERED BY THIRD SECTOR
In terms of maintaining the proper set of facilities are services provided the third sector
organizations, there are a various set of services which are delivered by these organizations. The
third sector organizations serve as the main element in expanding its role towards the social and
health care in the UK, Canada, and many other countries. The type of services defined by the Third
sector includes the way of working with the entire set of community in which the needs and
demands are made diverse. The third sector serves to implement the various set of policies and laws
which protects the basic human rights of the people. The sector offers the set of policies and laws
such as the protection against the child’s rights. It includes the set of laws and policies for decreasing
poverty and creates a development plan for defining sustainability against the development and
growth of the children (Bovaird et al., 2015).
An organization named Cancer Research UK, offers comprehensive health care to have a healthy and
productive future. Along with this, the third sector serves to provide the set of services dealing with
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the financial and technical support to the education based over the national and education based
intervention programs. These type of organizations also serves to offer basic gender equality and
education by improving readiness for schools focusing upon the set of children which are excluded
to be provided with the education by the initiatives taken in form of childhood health and education
and the set of services provided by the various organization of third sector (Bason, 2018).
ROLES OF the THIRD SECTOR IN SOCIETY
The third sector organization is majorly defined as an independent sector of government, which
serves to defined as an important part of the history and culture of the defined sector. These sectors
are defined as the ‘value-driven' which includes the level of motivation to achieve the defined set of
goals such as enhancing the public welfare or economic well-being. These type of organizations are
also termed as the not-for-profit organization (Dumay et al., 2015).
The set of roles which are defined by the third sector in the society includes the way of
understanding the needs and requirement of the service users and communities which are
addressed by the public sector. It helps in defining the closeness to the people. It provides the ability
to deliver an effective set of outcomes. It helps in developing the innovative set of solutions and it
also helps in improving the performance of the delivering set of services.
Apart from these, the third sector in society helps in evaluating the public needs to enhance the
level of growth among the set of people. The third sector also serves to include the implementation
of various activities based on a drop-in and local advice for people by defining right through the
charity's national communication campaign (Dey and Teasdale, 2016).
COMPARISION OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF SERVICES PUBLIC SERVICES DELIVERED BY the THIRD
SECTOR IN REAL WORLD
The third sector serves to deliver the set of effective services which leads towards the social
development and welfare of the people. The set of public services delivered by the people includes
care homes, housing-related services including a retirement home, support housing such as Joseph
Row tree Housing Trust. It serves to provide the care services delivered to the old age people which
are defined by the Joseph Row tree Foundation. It offers 24*7 nursing facilities to older people
(DENIS et al., 2015)
The availability of ambulances offered by the third sector serves to provide protection and
emergency transport during the time of emergency and health issues suffered by the various set of
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people. The ambulance service offered by the St John Ambulance provides an effective set of
services to the hospital's case of emergency.
Apart from these services, the health and social care services defined by the organization named as
the Salvation Army and the cancer research UK are also offered by the third sector towards the
public services. The major aim of this type of sector is to acknowledge the best set of services in
major possible sectors (Nabatchi et al., 2017).
BARRIERS AND BENEFITS OF PARTNERSHIPS OR OUTSOURCING IN THIRD SECTOR
The partnership working serves to include the combination of two or more services provided by the
different set of organizations. In the third sector, pioneering approaches have been introduced
towards the innovation of a new set of services which aims to prevent an offend among youth. The
designing services have been also defined in partnership in order to enhance the better quality of
services. Such as in delivery services, the NHS ambulance services are sometimes operated by the St
John Ambulance. Apart from these, for variation, the campaign defined by the third sector is made
instrumental to ensure the high level of access towards the set of services related with better
childcare and disabilities (Sands et al., 2016).
The major benefits defined by establishing partnership and outsourcing include the majority power
of engaging the majority of users. It helps in building a high level of trust, respect, and confidence. It
helps in defining the personalized and tailored approach which leads to the abolishment of problems
faced during the time of innovation. It increases the ability to understand the demands of
communities and users along with the expected outcomes defined at the time of delivery of
services.
The set of barriers which are defined towards the partnership and outsourcing includes the ability to
recover the overheads by statutory funding. The barrier of defining the location of contract
knowledge and organization to make the availability in terms of commissioning the variety of
contracts available (Rees et al., 2017)
JUSTIFICATION OF USE OF THIRD SECTOR IN PUBLIC SERVICES
The use of the third sector in an effective way helps in defining the work related to the various
public services provides an opportunity for establishing longer funding and contracts at the local
level. It provides the capability to recover the overheads along with the direct costs by funding
payment at a defined time interval. It helps in managing the excessive burden defined towards the
evaluation and monitoring.
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Thus, the way of implementing the public services defined by the third sector leads towards the
improvement among the lives of people by providing a suitable and effective set of facilities and
services (Fine, 2017).
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CONCLUSION
The main aim of the development of such type of organization is to help provides the set of facilities
and services towards the set of people who are unable to access and utilize the benefits of the types
of services offered by the organization.
The third sector serves as the main component in terms of offering the set of services and facilities
to the people at a low rate or free of cost. This type of organization includes the ability to deliver the
best set of services to the people without concentrating on the profit generation ability in an
organization (Wainwright and Manville, 2017).
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