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Value For Money Tell Me the Score Dylan Chipp Non-Executive Director, Voluntas Housing Rated By Residents Your Residents, Their Views
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Value For Money

Tell Me the Score

Dylan ChippNon-Executive Director, Voluntas Housing

Rated By Residents – Your Residents, Their Views

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To Cover in this session

Introductions

The Climate we’re in

TSA Standard (VfM)

Short Notice Inspection

Case Studies

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Its 2010….

An Election Year…..£150m campaign and costs

An Investment Year….£117b on Banks

Peak Debt Year for UK at £170b (…ish)

To be followed by Five Year’s of Austerity......

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Change of Government

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The Manifestos so Far

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Case Study – Team Meetings

Midlands HA, 8,500 homes

Business Excellence Model

Robust Golden Thread

Quarterly team meetings to focus on performance trends using simple graphs of success/failure over time and asking “Why did it do that?”

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TSA Standards

VfM

Home

Tenancy

Neighbourhood and community

Tenant involvement and empowerment

Governance and viability

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A local VFM “offer”

Resource allocation and VfM arrangements (for each service-delivery related Standard)– Relate spending to results

– Redistribution/divest/invest of new funds explained

Performance offered: Cost and quality baseline - inclusive of benchmarks and opportunities identified

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A local VFM “offer”

Performance arrangements: Visibility of high cost/low performance service areas (within other Standards) and actions to improve

Performance failure: Triggers, Materiality, Sourcing and Intervention arrangements

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Business Plans..... Service Charges....

The Acid Test.....The Plan.....

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Case Study – TSA Standards

North East ALMO, 8,500 homes, Two Stars

In-house performance system

Procurement focused

With Tenants, reviewed all KPIs alongside TSA Standards, amending, ditching and finally aligning Standards/KPIs and Tenant expectations read for 1st April 2010 launch.

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Short Notice Inspection

39 SNIs completed in 2009/10

9 service areas covered– 36% Repairs

– 31% Gas

– 13% Resident Involvement

– 9% Income

Diversity ratings an emerging trend….but at least

VfM isn't quite as bad…….

Strengths In balance Weaknesses

VfM 26% 50% 24%

Access 23% 54% 23%

Diversity 18% 46% 36%

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SNI – Where its done well

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SNI – Some examples

Strategic approach and embedding– There is clear strategic direction for managing VfM through a

steering group, procurement strategy with a timetable of proposed reviews, savings register and appointment of a cost manager

– Uses cost and performance information to implement more efficient ways of working, addressing higher cost services, reducing costs to the association, and challenging contractors

– VfM is included in training for staff and briefings– All staff have at least one efficiency target to achieve as part of

their appraisal– VFM features as high level targets in business plans

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SNI – Some examples

Resident involvement– Resident involvement impact assessment are clear

and thorough, assessing outcomes from the activities and what has been achieved, against the costs

– An amount is also set aside as an Excellence Fund for initiatives or service improvements. How the money is spent is agreed by a panel of managers and residents

– Tenants are involved at all stages of the procurement process

– Identifying residents’ priorities in the residents’ business plan process

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SNI – Some examples

Improvement and performance – Service reviews have focused on high cost areas and identified

savings are being reinvested in priorities– Performance reporting links cost and quality measures with

some customer satisfaction indicators– Business transformation programme has already delivered £1.5

million in efficiency savings– Value for money is built into decisions around setting the

budgets and the costs of delivering and improving services are scrutinised

– Considers the cost, the quality and the level of service customers expect and are satisfied with

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SNI – Some examples

Procurement– A procurement plan sets out contracts in place

and timescales for review

– Relevant staff are given responsibility to lead on contracts

– A purchasing guide is available on the Intranet, which includes a flowchart to simplify options available based on values

– Sufficient time to consider procurement options

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Case Study – VfM Register

North West LSVT, 5,500 homes

Social Enterprise focus

Own maintenance workforce

In-built VfM and improvement register as part oflog-on to IT Network

Builds body of auditable evidence

Forms part of Annual Awards for performance

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The Mighty Have Fallen

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Summary

Plan for a fiscal challenge to your business and improvement plans

What ever the Standard....

Check your measures and intervene quickly

High Cost/low performance first

Transparency and focus from Website to staff members – The Golden Thread

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