HEALTH

Health life sciences

Health life sciences

Introduction

Social enterprise is a business sector that fulfils the aims of market by creating employment and providing necessary local services to the people. This sector has also contributed in the healthcare sector of U.K. social enterprise provide help to Government objectives by delivering public services and by helping to develop an active society. It plays a vital role in health and care services. With its many benefits, it has some limitations that need to overcome for the betterment of this sector (www.sel.org.uk).

Discussion

Benefits and Limitations

Social enterprise provides many facilities and services to the citizens. It includes charity trading arms, home help services, training and treatment for disabled, sheltered housing, Residential care homes and food cooperatives (www.sel.org.uk). Welfare and health care services are the major sector in London which is providing facilities and benefits to the citizens. Almost 1400 organizations are working to provide such services to the needy people (www.sel.org.uk).

Charity Commission

It is a charity organization, which regulates the charities in Wales and England. It maintains the public trust in charities and enhances the accountability of charities to donors and the general public. This organization ensures the public that their donated money will be used under charity law (www.charity-commission.gov.uk). It also maintains a register of charities which decides that the organisation is charitable or not. It also assesses the concerns and complaints about charities and tries to solve them. It does not involve in the outside disputes of the trustees of the charitable organizations (www.charity-commission.gov.uk).

CDF (Community Development Foundation)

CDF is the social enterprise which helps communities to improve the lives of the people. It provides better places to the communities where they can live. The aim of this organisation is to gather resources and people to flourish the communities (www.cdf.org.uk). It manages money, support and people for community development. It also delivers grants to trust and foundations and to other businesses. It fully supports local communities and community groups (www.cdf.org.uk).

JRF (Joseph Rowntree Foundation)

This organization tries to find the root causes of the social problems related to poverty, place and ageing society. JRF believes in the fact that poverty is the cause that is damaging the society. It investigates the reasons of poverty and uses their money for the reduction of poverty in the society. It searches for the practical strategies that can be helpful in the reduction of poverty. This organization is trying to get facts and causes of poverty and inequality (www.jrf.org.uk).

It also promoted the importance of neighbourhood, housing and sense of communities. It tries to find the issues of homelessness and access to the necessities of the communities (www.jrf.org.uk).It responds positively to the issues and challenges faced by the ageing society. This organization is trying to explore the ways in which people can respond well to the ageing population. JRF is trying to cope up with the social problems of the citizens and making lives of the people comparatively easy (www.jrf.org.uk).

Conversion of Voluntary Sector into Social Enterprise

A government needs to expand the social enterprise by converting voluntary ...