Our Focus: The un - met challenge of Neighbourhood Renewal
“Harnessing the hundreds of billions of pounds spent by key Government
departments, rather than relying on one-off regeneration spending”.
National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal 2001
Spotlight – toward a system to deliver transformation and Connecting People
• 4 underlying assumptions
– Scale
– Integration
– Whole systems of delivery
– Community connections
Scale – whatever we do that works, we need to do a lot of it!
Integration is critical to success
Source: PMSU/NRU Deprived Areas Review 2004
Concentrations of vulnerable residents
Negative peer culture, low social capital
Barriers to work for individualsUnpopular
neighbourhood in disrepair Strain on
liveability
Barriers to employers/ investors
High worklessness and income poverty
Economic development
‘Liveability’
Social capital
UNIVERSAL SERVICES
LOCALITY PROVISION
‘WRAP AROUND’
Local engagement and integrated services:
‘Jobshops’
Job Centre Plus
Whole systems - shaping cohesive, customer focused delivery
Health & Social CareCriminal justice
HousingThird Sector
Community connections are the best way in…
We need a system to deliver scale, integration and community connections…
• Partnerships feel like an add on to the ‘day job’?
• Public services incentivised by national concerns?
• Performance measured at city level on many issues?
• Inflexible ‘one size fits all’ delivery arrangements?
• Third sector on the fringes?
• Deprivation as ‘special operations’?
We have tested the model
Area Issue SPOTlight period
NDC area Young people not in Employment, Education or Training
15 Oct: 19 Nov 2007
Ordsall & Langworthy
Safe, Clean, Green 29 Oct: 3 Dec 2007
East Salford Worklessness 5 Nov: 10 Dec 2007
Further trials Lone Parents
Alcohol
Childhood Obesity
Transport
By June 2008
We have found common problems across issues
- Weak local data- Weak analytical capacity- Engagement not influencing delivery enough
- Plans not locally specific- Local governance not connected to LSP - Barriers to entry
- Patchy evaluation- Weak mainstreaming practice
- Fragmentation- Weak cross referral- Lack of incentives to meet local standards - Weak collective action- Instability
Understanding need Planning & deciding
Reviewing Delivering
THE CUSTOMER JOURNEY
Results: The system is changing - ‘Mainstreaming for Real’
Diversification and choice
Worklessness delivery system opened up to 32 ‘new’ providers
- Community & Voluntary Sector
- Health, Housing Agencies
Innovation, Personalisation
GP’s incentivised to refer IB patients to employability advisors.
Family approach on worklessness
Direct payments and personalised budgets in skills and worklessness?
Community Engagement & Accountability
Dashboard’ of local safe, clean and green indicators, regular reporting to communities
‘Communities on board’ - social marketing
Intensive management arrangements for regeneration areas, aligning incentives between agencies
Results: The system is changing - ‘Mainstreaming for Real’
Pace and Urgency
Spotlight has given our Partnership go faster and go further stripes!
What’s next?
• Driving delivery – making this mainstream work
• Evaluation, further ‘real - time’ tests
• Make Area Based Grant a new dawn – driving innovation, integration and change in public services
• Learn more from the Health and Social Care integration and commissioning journey
• Test the Local Area Agreement with real evidence
• Hold our nerve - see where momentum can take us!
