Schedule of Actions and Commitments to address Area Assessment findings - - 15 December 2009 V1 1 Theme 1 Safe, Strong and Inclusive Communities FOCUS ACTION INCLUDED IN EXISTING STRATEGY OR PLAN LEAD THEMATIC PARTNERSHIP/PARTNER Work with joint inspectorates to understand the full impact of the Nov 09 floods and lessons learned. • Recovery action plan coordinated by the Recovery Co-ordination Group • Flood impact assessment coordinated by the Cumbria Intelligence Observatory • Lessons learned from previous floods • Impact of the floods on the Cumbria Local Area Agreement Cumbria County Council Partners Cumbria County Council Cumbria County Council Reduce the rate of repeat incidents of Domestic Violence and improve Cumbria’s comparative performance. Included in the Domestic Violence Board exit strategy and business case for Mainstreaming Reduce the number of repeat victims of domestic violence - Carlisle and Eden CDRP Plan Furness SCS Aims: • Reduce rates of violent crime, burglary, drug related crime, anti-social behaviour, and youth crime and disorder. LSP/ Partner Activities: • CDRP Projects: Victim Support, Shelter 08/09, • CDRP Domestic Violence Task Group Action Plan. • Barrow Crime and Disorder Reduction Strategy Domestic Violence Strategic Management Board C&E CDRP Furness Partnership/ Probation Board Improve the way in which Cumbria’s Policing priorities are decided. Not sure if specific action is in a plan, but certainly a priority for Police Carlisle and Eden CDRP Plan Cumbria Constabulary C&E CDRP, Carlisle Partnership Executive Board Improve the re- offending rates of Cumbria’s young people. Youth Crime Action Plan CCC, primarily via Youth Offending Service leading on this. Key partners include Children’s Trust, Criminal Justice Board and the Youth Offending Service Management Board. Delivery Plan for NI19 in place. Furness SCS Aims: • Reduce rates of violent crime, burglary, drug related crime, anti-social behaviour, and youth crime and disorder. • Reduce fear of crime, as measured by an annual survey into the attitudes of local people. Youth Offending Service Children’s Trust Furness Partnership/ Probation Board
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Theme 1 Safe, Strong and Inclusive Communities FOCUS ACTION INCLUDED IN EXISTING STRATEGY OR PLAN LEAD THEMATIC PARTNERSHIP/PARTNER Work with joint inspectorates to understand the full impact of the Nov 09 floods and lessons learned.
• Recovery action plan coordinated by the Recovery Co-ordination Group • Flood impact assessment coordinated by the Cumbria Intelligence Observatory • Lessons learned from previous floods • Impact of the floods on the Cumbria Local Area Agreement
Cumbria County Council Partners Cumbria County Council Cumbria County Council
Reduce the rate of repeat incidents of Domestic Violence and improve Cumbria’s comparative performance.
Included in the Domestic Violence Board exit strategy and business case for Mainstreaming Reduce the number of repeat victims of domestic violence - Carlisle and Eden CDRP Plan Furness SCS Aims: • Reduce rates of violent crime, burglary, drug related crime, anti-social behaviour, and
youth crime and disorder. LSP/ Partner Activities: • CDRP Projects: Victim Support, Shelter 08/09, • CDRP Domestic Violence Task Group Action Plan. • Barrow Crime and Disorder Reduction Strategy
Improve the re-offending rates of Cumbria’s young people.
Youth Crime Action Plan CCC, primarily via Youth Offending Service leading on this. Key partners include Children’s Trust, Criminal Justice Board and the Youth Offending Service Management Board. Delivery Plan for NI19 in place. Furness SCS Aims: • Reduce rates of violent crime, burglary, drug related crime, anti-social behaviour, and
youth crime and disorder. • Reduce fear of crime, as measured by an annual survey into the attitudes of local people.
Youth Offending Service Children’s Trust Furness Partnership/ Probation Board
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FOCUS ACTION INCLUDED IN EXISTING STRATEGY OR PLAN LEAD THEMATIC PARTNERSHIP/PARTNER LSP/ Partner Activities: • Priority and Prolific Offenders - this task group receives top sliced funding from the County
SSCTP budget but also additional funds from Barrow CDRP. Operation Siskin, Operation Regulate, Burglary and Acquisitive Crime Task Group - 'Target Hardening'
• Tackling reliance on high cost credit and loan shark activity by working with Credit Unions and the Illegal Money Lending Team (Trading Standards)
Barrow Crime and Disorder Reduction Strategy
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Theme 2 Health and Well-Being Throughout Life FOCUS ACTION INCLUDED IN EXISTING STRATEGY OR PLAN LEAD THEMATIC PARTNERSHIP/PARTNER Address health ineqaualities. Barrow-in-Furness and Carlisle are amongst the most unhealthy in England.
Carlisle Health Improvement Plan & Action Plan Carlisle Community Strategy Barrow has a Health Inequalities Action Plan to reduce premature mortality in line with the LAA targets. This plan is currently being updated to include National Support Team on Health Inequalities recommendations. The plan is monitored and delivered under the Furness Healthy Communities and Older People’s Thematic Group, which is an active multi-agency partnership, linked to other LSP task groups. Key areas of the plan include: • Improving case finding, early intervention and treatment pathways in primary care with regard
to heart disease and cancer • Reducing smoking • Reducing alcohol misuse • Improving physical activity and healthy eating • Tackling obesity • Improving mental health • Reducing accidents A range of activities to support the above are detailed in the Health Inequalities Action Plan. • Barrow-in-Furness Health Improvement and Health Inequalities Strategy Baseline Assessment of Health in Furness Target available resources at priority health inequalities and areas – Eden LSP Action Plan
Carlisle HCOP Furness Partnership HCOP Eden LSP Action Plan
Address major differences in life expectancy across Cumbria and between gender.
Carlisle Health Improvement Plan & Action Plan Carlisle Community Strategy Barrow has a Health Inequalities Action Plan to reduce premature mortality in line with the LAA targets. This plan is currently being updated to include National Support Team on Health Inequalities recommendations. The plan is monitored and delivered under the Furness Healthy Communities and Older People’s Thematic Group, which is an active multi-agency partnership, linked to other LSP task groups. Key areas of the plan include: • Improving case finding, early intervention and treatment pathways in primary care with regard
to heart disease and cancer • Reducing smoking
Carlisle HCOP Furness Partnership HCOP
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• Reducing alcohol misuse • Improving physical activity and healthy eating • Tackling obesity • Improving mental health • Reducing accidents A range of activities to support the above are detailed in the Health Inequalities Action Plan. • Barrow-in-Furness Health Improvement and Health Inequalities Strategy Baseline Assessment of Health in Furness
Reduce the number of people who smoke.
Carlisle Health Improvement Plan & Action Plan Carlisle Community Strategy Furness SCS Aims: • Help people to stop smoking LSP/ Partner Activities: • Additional investment in stop smoking service Partnership working Cumbria F&R service-
incorporated into home safety checks • Brief interventions training for agencies in Barrow • Service promoted through partners • StreetSafe activities at community level will incorporate raising issue of stop smoking • Quit and win incentives scheme in partnership with Barrow Borough Council • Young Firefighters Junior Citizen Scheme educates young people about the health and
social harms of smoking; • Smoking cessation officers use the community room at the fire-station and the community
room at NMT to carry out more accessible sessions in the community for those trying to give up smoking.
• Barrow-in-Furness Health Improvement and Health Inequalities Strategy Baseline Assessment of Health in Furness
Carlisle HCOP Furness Partnership
Reduce Child obesity levels.
CT responsible for implementations part of Cumbria’s Healthy Weight Strategy and as a result a multi-agency Early Years Task Group was set up. Action plan in place and quarterly reports are given to the CT Board Furness SCS Aims: Help children and young people to:
• be healthy: enjoy good physical and mental health and live a healthy lifestyle • enjoy and achieve: get the most out of life and develop skills for adulthood
Nutrition, Do-it - 12 week family initiative to address childhood obesity and encourage healthy eating and exercise); Road Awareness Training; Soccer Cage; Junior Wardens; Building Bridges.
• Multi-agency working to reduce alcohol misuse among children (co-ordinated by CDRP) e.g. action on underage sales
• Implement Life Check programme • CCC funds positive youth activities through the Furness Youth work consortium and sporting
opportunities through Barrow Sports Council. • Central and Hindpool Neighbourhood Management partnership is supporting young people to
complete the John Muir Award scheme as part of their Junior Warden scheme. Neighbourhood Wardens also deliver curriculum and community based activities in support of the wider Junior Warden programme.
• Central and Hindpool Neighbourhood Management partnership is a pilot site for the national Inspiring Communities programme which aims to raise the educational attainment and aspiration of 11-14 year olds in the Central and Hindpool wards, the programme runs to 31 March 2011.
Delivery through the Furness Youth Work Consortium • Barrow-in-Furness Health Improvement and Health Inequalities Strategy Baseline Assessment of Health in Furness Eden LSP Action Plan Obtain funding for and implement priority projects for: - broadening the offer of sport and physical activity to the whole community in Eden - developing positive activities for young people via the provision of diversionary activity, access to facilities, building capacity and signposting and marketing.
Eden Sports and Physical Activity Alliance, ECYPPG & CDRP
Reduce the rate of teenage conceptions across Cumbria.
Teenage Pregnancy Strategy in place driven by Risk Taking Behaviour Board. Action Plan in place including commissioning of services, analysis of data, targeted activity, performance monitoring Furness SCS Aims: • Provide a sure foundation for children through healthy pregnancy and early childhood • Help children and young people to enjoy and achieve: get the most out of life and develop
skills for adulthood LSP/ Partner Activities:
Children’s Trust Furness Partnership
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• NHS Cumbria commissioning to improve access to contraception and termination services • Barrow-in-Furness Health Improvement and Health Inequalities Strategy Baseline Assessment of Health in Furness
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Theme 3 A SUSTAINABLE AND PROSPEROUS ECONOMY. FOCUS ACTION INCLUDED IN EXISTING STRATEGY OR PLAN LEAD THEMATIC PARTNERSHIP/PARTNER Reduce the number of people claiming incapacity benefit.
LAA economic development and enterprise – reduce worklessness action plan. Specifically, the stretch target si1 relates to the return to work project to get incapacity benefit claimants into sustainable employment. Carlisle Community Strategy Carlisle Economic Strategy Furness SCS Aims: • Increase levels of employment in Barrow through strategies to create new jobs. • Improve the employability of local people, particularly in the areas of greatest need • Support new and existing local businesses and encourage the use of local skills and expertise wherever possible
LSP/ Partner Activities: • Currently using WNF, WLR and other funding Furness Enterprise undertakes the following
range of activities with the integrated objectives of increasing the numbers of jobs available and improving the access to those jobs for local residents. In increasing the number of jobs Furness Enterprise seeks to develop new businesses including those attracted from outside the area and works with existing businesses to help them safeguard existing jobs and develop new ones. Included in this development of new and existing businesses is the provision of financial assistance in respect of loans and grants. The key activity associated with improving job access for local residents is ‘The Workshop’ designed to engage and support unemployed residents towards employment and self employment. Incorporated in this support is training support of the short, sharp, job related type.
• Furness Enterprise also works with long term IB claimants under a Cumbria County Council scheme.Pilot referral programme with Job Centre Plus advisers in GP Surgeries
• CCC provides learning and training opportunities for adults with learning difficulties at Mill Lane Day Centre, Chatsworth Crafts and PAVE at Jubilee House.
• Furness Enterprise Business Plan Furness Enterprise Jobs Document
Cumbria Vision Carlisle Partnership EDE group Furness Partnership
Actions to address Incapacity Benefit are having a greater impact in Barrow than
As above, work done under the reduce worklessness action plan. In addition to the return to work project, furness enterprise deliver a number of initiatives to support those on incapacity benefit (among other target groups), such as the workshop Furness Enterprise also works with long term IB claimants under a Cumbria County Council
Cumbria vision Furness Partnership
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elsewhere in the County.
scheme.Pilot referral programme with Job Centre Plus advisers in GP Surgeries • Furness Enterprise Business Plan Furness Enterprise Jobs Document
Prospects for improvement in the economy are being held back by a general shortage of decent, affordable homes.
Carlisle Community Strategy Carlisle Economic Strategy Carlisle Growth Point Housing Market Renewal Strategy Furness SCS Aims:
• Ensure the sustainability of Barrow’s housing market, through housing market renewal and regeneration activities.
• Improve the quality and choice of accommodation available, including providing for people with special needs.
LSP/ Partner Activities/Strategies: Housing Market Renewal Programme, housing needs assessment and the Local Development Framework • Barrow-in-Furness House Condition Survey • Barrow-in-Furness Housing Needs Study • Cumbria Housing Strategy • Furness & West Cumbria Housing Market Renewal Prospectus • Barrow Borough Local Plan Review • Barrow Borough Local Plan Housing Chapter Alteration 2005 • Barrow Borough Local Development Framework, including:
• Local Development Scheme • Statement of Community Involvement • Annual Monitoring Report • Barrow Port Area Action Plan • Core Strategy
Town Centre Area Action Plan
Carlisle Partnership EDE group Furness Partnership
More new jobs are needed, and in
LAA Economic Development and Enterprise – Reduce Worklessness Action Plan. This has recently included the County Council’s Future Jobs Fund bid. The initial contract will last until
Cumbria Vision
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particular for young people (and particularly in Barrow).
May 2010 and will create 128 jobs across the county for long-term unemployed 18 to 24 year olds. Under the ED & E Increase Enterprise Action Plan, the County Council is the Accountable Body for the NWDA New Start contract, which aims to create 300 businesses over 3 years. Carlisle Community Strategy Carlisle Economic Strategy Furness SCS Aims: • Support new and existing local businesses and encourage the use of local skills and
expertise wherever possible LSP/ Partner Activities: Furness Enterprise utilising currently WNF funding has a very successful programme of new start support from initial advice, through training and financial support to ongoing development. Survival rates of Furness Enterprise assisted new businesses at 85% are very much higher than the national average. In 2008 150 new start jobs were created. • Furness Enterprise Business Plan Furness Enterprise Jobs Document
Carlisle Partnership EDE group Furness Partnership
Prioritisation of key projects within the West Coast Masterplan to deliver outcomes for local people.
Address skills levels across deprived areas of West Cumbria and Barrow.
LAA Economic Development and Enterprise – Increase Skills Action Plan. The Learning & Skills Council have been working jointly with Jobcentre Plus to re-skill and up-skill those affected by the recession in terms of redundancy. The Employment & Skills Board have recently commissioned research into current skills provision, and the impacts on provision of the Economic Strategy, which will inform schools, colleges and Higher Education providers of the key growth areas on which to focus. Furness SCS Aims: • Support new and existing local businesses and encourage the use of local skills and
expertise wherever possible LSP/ Partner Activities: Furness Enterprise utilising currently WNF funding has a very successful programme of new start support from initial advice, through training and financial support to ongoing development.
Cumbria Vision Furness Partnership
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Survival rates of Furness Enterprise assisted new businesses at 85% are very much higher than the national average. In 2008 150 new start jobs were created. • Furness Enterprise Business Plan Furness Enterprise Jobs Document
Too many secondary schools are rated ‘satisfactory’. Increase the number that are ‘good’ or better.
Improvement required at Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4.
Some Children from minority groups do not perform as well as in similar areas.
Inequalities in achievement at ‘A’ Level or equivalent in Cumbria compared to similar areas and nationally.
Increase the rate of young people from lower income backgrounds progressing to higher education.
Carlisle Community Strategy Carlisle Economic Strategy Cumbria 14-19 Strategic Partnership is the lead organisation. Action plan in place in order to ensure ongoing analysis of data, targeted activity, monitor performance Furness SCS Aims: • Improve the employability of local people, particularly in the areas of greatest need. • Help children and young people to achieve economic well-being: not be prevented by
economic disadvantage from achieving their full potential in life
Carlisle Partnership EDE group Children’s Trust Furness Partnership
2 Information on the John Muir Award scheme: http://www.jmt.org/jmaward-home.asp
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• Support development of the University of Cumbria hub in Barrow • Improve provision of post-14 education and training, and raise achievement of students aged
14 and over. • Help and encourage more young people to continue in post-16 education and training. • Reduce barriers to learning and raise achievements through interventions to promote
attendance, punctuality and the value of learning LSP/ Partner Activities: • Furness is a priority area for the Cumbria Aimhigher Project and has its own local co-
ordinator. The Project is aimed at families with no history of Higher Education and inevitably there is over-representation of those on free school meals within this group. Activities are aimed at pupils from primary school through to post-16 all intended to raise awareness and aspiration to continue into HE.
• In the analysis of HESA data for 2001-06 Barrow was identified as one of four areas in the NW which had the highest overall increases in 18-20 year old students entering HE and the highest, with very nearly a 10% increase, for females.
• Aimhigher activity will continue and has been part of a coherent approach overseen by the highly successful Furness 14-19 Partnership. This Partnership is linked to the Furness Strategic Partnership via the latter’s Lifelong Learning Thematic Group.
• The Barrow Engineering Project is funded jointly by the Royal Academy of Engineering and local companies and organisations and is intended to raise the status of engineering as a career path for young people including increasing those entering through the degree route.
• CCC Furness College Sports Hub – partnership of Furness College, Barrow Council, Cumbria County Council, Barrow Sports Council and Connexions – promoting sports courses and subsidising them as appropriate. Alternative way of encouraging young people to further education.
• CCC funds Furness Youth consortium including Youth Inclusion Project which supports young people at risk of exclusion from school
• Central and Hindpool Neighbourhood Management partnership is a pilot site for the national Inspiring Communities programme which aims to raise the educational attainment and aspiration of 11-14 year olds in the Central and Hindpool wards, the programme runs to 31 March 2011.
Central and Hindpool Neighbourhood Management partnership is supporting young people to complete the John Muir Award2 as part of their Junior Warden scheme. Neighbourhood Wardens also deliver curriculum and community based activities in support of the wider Junior Warden programme.
The condition of private sector housing in some areas is still poor
Carlisle Community Strategy Carlisle Economic Strategy Carlisle Growth Point
Carlisle Partnership EDE group Carlisle Partnership HCOP
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and difficult to heat, leading to fuel poverty in low income households.
Furness SCS Aims: • Ensure the sustainability of Barrow’s housing market, through housing market renewal
and regeneration activities. • Improve the quality and choice of accommodation available, including providing for
people with special needs. LSP/ Partner Activities: Housing Market Renewal Programme, housing needs assessment and the Local Development Framework • Barrow-in-Furness House Condition Survey • Barrow-in-Furness Housing Needs Study • Cumbria Housing Strategy • Furness & West Cumbria Housing Market Renewal Prospectus • Barrow Borough Local Plan Review • Barrow Borough Local Plan Housing Chapter Alteration 2005 • Barrow Borough Local Development Framework, including:
• Local Development Scheme • Statement of Community Involvement • Annual Monitoring Report • Barrow Port Area Action Plan • Core Strategy
Town Centre Area Action Plan
Furness Partnership
Most Districts are some way off meeting the Government target to halve the number of households in temporary accommodation (getting worse in Barrow and Allerdale).
Affordability Condition of Private Sector Housing Reduction in temporary accommodation.
Public Sector Organisations in Cumbria need to be more efficient and effective in
Overall joint plan required to influence how money is spent, improve services and reduce costs.
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spending budgets. With public services budgets predicted to be substantially reduced, a wholly different and much more radical approach is needed to achieve major efficiencies in how public services are run in Cumbria in the future.
Overall plan in 2010 to jointly improve services and reduce costs.
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Theme 4 Effective connections between people and places FOCUS ACTION INCLUDED IN EXISTING STRATEGY OR PLAN LEAD THEMATIC PARTNERSHIP/PARTNER People in Cumbria find it difficult to access job opportunities and services compared with other areas.
Carlisle Community Strategy Carlisle Economic Strategy Eden LSP Action Plan Publicise available activities for young people with details of transport Provide subsidised fares on buses for young people/young people's buses Develop innovative solutions to reduce need to travel Develop transport concessions for young and old people on all modes of transport
Carlisle Partnership EDE Group Carlisle Partnership HCOP EDEN LSP ECYPPG
Public Services need to work better together to make best use of budgets, co-ordinate plans and set clear priorities.
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Theme 5 World class environmental quality FOCUS ACTION INCLUDED IN EXISTING STRATEGY OR PLAN LEAD THEMATIC PARTNERSHIP/PARTNER CO2 emissions across the County are high and the prospects of reducing them require priority actions to be agreed and investment in new technologies.
Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan Carlisle Community Strategy
Carlisle Partnership Convenors Group Carlisle City Council
Successful implementation of the Climate Change Action Plan will require better use of the planning system to require minimum or zero CO2 emissions in new developments.
Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan Carlisle Community Strategy
Carlisle Partnership Convenors Group Carlisle City Council
Partners want Cumbria to be a major producer of renewable energy types, however much work is needed to achieve this long term project.
It is not clear how partners’ initiatives to reduce CO2 emissions are working
Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan Carlisle Community Strategy
Carlisle Partnership Convenors Group Carlisle City Council
