• To help target potential partners and appropriate delivery vehicles for encouraging behaviour change, DECC will undertake a mapping exercise of related activity in a variety of third sector and other communities; and • The third sector and CLG will work together to establish a sector-led partnership involving local and national government, the third sector and other sectors, to develop actions for changing individual behaviours in the use of household energy through community action.
Sustainable public services The third sector brings significant benefits to service delivery, with increasingly tailored, personalised services that are responsive to service users and their needs. They often operate under pressure and work with disadvantaged groups, many of which will be hit hardest and fastest by climate change. The scale of their delivery makes a service-based approach to examining climate change critical, as it will be a means of engaging the many third sector organisations focused on service delivery. There is a key opportunity here for the sector’s provision to embed efforts to tackle climate change, build in a response to its impacts and ensure that high quality third sector service provision continues into the future. Commissioning and procurement can contribute to developing more sustainable service provision. Third sector service provision often delivers against multiple objectives. For example, the delivery of greenspace maintenance may also be creating new jobs and skills for the long-term unemployed. Defra is keen to explore how best the third sector’s, often unique, delivery against multiple outcomes can be fully recognised and valued in public service commissioning and procurement.
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