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Whole Essex Community Budget
Sounding Board13th November 2013
Agenda2
Time Title/Description Lead12.30 Arrivals
13.00 Welcome Cllr David Finch
13.05 Achievements and Impacts so far• Community Safety• Family Solutions• Economic Growth• Sustainable Communities
Susannah Hancock (PCC)Ian Davidson (Tendring DC)Peter Cook (ECC)Bob Reitemeier (Essex Community Foundation)
13.45 Going Further - Essex in 2020What should communities expect from Public Services in Essex?Discussion
Halima KhanDirector: Nesta Innovation Lab
14.30 Getting us ThereDelivery Plans for 2014/15 and beyond
Joanna Killian
14.35 Public Service Reforms – next steps (1)• Strengthening Communities • Domestic Abuse• Housing• Family Solutions• Social Gateway• Reducing Reoffending
Jasmine Frost (Essex Police)Kevin Nunn(ECC)Glen Chipp (Epping Forest DC)Philippa Bull (ECC)Sue Pottle (DWP)Michael Kay (Essex Probation)
15.05 Refreshment Break / Website Demonstration 15.20 Public Service Reforms – next steps (2)
- Duplicate of session 1
15.50 Next Steps Cllr David Finch
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
COMMUNITY SAFETY – SUSANNAH HANCOCK, PCC
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Domestic Abuse• Basildon & Braintree Domestic Abuse pilot went live in August - 213 victims of domestic abuse
have been supported as of end of Oct ‘13, helping to keep them free from further abuse. • Phase 1 of the Joint Domestic Abuse triage team (JDATT) went live in September by Essex
Police and ECC Children’s Social Care, which has led to more timely and better informed risk assessments
• Securing agreement in principle from EHoG and Refuge providers to develop key principles identified in Safer Accommodation proposal paper.
Benefits achieved so far?Making a conservative assumption that our intervention will lead to just under half of the supported victims becoming free from abuse this will, for example, reduce police intervention and GP visits, which will result in overall benefits of £56,000 per year in respect of the 213 victims being supported so far.
So until 2019/20 this means a saving of £336,000 relating to victims supported so far...The aim is to support 600 victims in the first 12 months and an additional 5400 victims over the next 3 years to achieve the estimated benefits of £6.2m. Investment was secured for the first year but investment for the subsequent years will be required.
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Domestic Abuse
Watch video through link below: -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e6qZV4_pPM
Re-offending• New Ways of Working proposal has been agreed with DWP and will be initially piloted in
Brentwood and Southend for 3 months before wider rollout across Essex• A peer mentoring programme to train ex-offenders has been successfully commissioned -
30 peer mentors trained, 4 of whom will soon be employed by Essex Probation as offender support workers
• A Reducing Reoffending Board together with Joint Commissioning Board Essex Offender Accommodation Forum has been set-up and have begun to identify opportunities where savings may be made and services improved.
• Funding for expansion of link workers for Integrated Offender Management (IOM) scheme has been secured for this FY, which enable us expand the support provided offenders – contract for additional three link workers under negotiation
• Funding for data analyst to develop a performance framework for IOM scheme has been provided by the PCC – recruitment underway.
Benefits delivered so far?• The benefits are not due to be delivered prior to 2015/16.• With Transforming Rehabilitation programme underway more clarity will be required how
the 1% reduction year on year will be achieved.
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Reducing Reoffending
Watch video through link below: -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNvPWrXTEGg
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
HEALTH & WELLBEING – IAN DAVIDSON, TENDRING DC
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Family Solutions• 8 Family Teams working to broader criteria launched October 2013• Early Advice Hub went live in Sept 2013.• Volunteering Mentor programme commissioning process complete - providers identified to
commence activity January 2014• Family Solutions broadcast on BBC 5Live from Harlow office in recognition of the impact of the
work teams are doing with families 30/10/13• Single point of contact for practitioners providing early help advice, guidance and access to Family
Teams
• Co-location of multi-disciplinary staff in the localities providing holistic support to families• Delivering results on the ground - improving school attendance, employment rates and family
relationships• Effective joint-partnership working particularly with DWP Social Justice Advisers• Central data recording system in place capturing information to support families and inform
service developments Benefits delivered so far?Family Solutions has implemented all deliverables to support 1440 families per annum in order to achieve the estimated benefits in total of £41m until 2019/20. First performance figures will be produced after being operational for 6 months.
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Family Solutions
Watch video through link below: -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkZH5NP4X7s
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
ECONOMIC GROWTH – PETER COOK, ECC
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Skills for Growth• Established the employer led Employment and Skills Board (ESB) with a highly credible line up of members. Wider launch
event with employers in December • Evidence base near completion that is establishing the skills needs of the Greater Essex economy, both now and in the
future. Validated by industry peer review and already influencing skills provision and funding decisions.• Skills Investment Fund being established to give local partners the ability to commission training provision according to
local industry need, pump primed by ECC, but with the longer term aim of being supported through the Single Local Growth Fund (SLGF), ESF, private sector match and eventually mainstream funding
• Essex nominated to lead on European Social Fund (ESF) plans on behalf of SELEP, plans validated by the Employment and Skills Board
• On-line portal being developed to encourage business to articulate it’s skills requirements and enable training providers to respond to them
• Considerable involvement and collaboration of local partners in the overall approach, sparked by the Community Budgets process
• Despite intensive engagement the asks of government, particularly around devolution of skills funding, have not been granted and as a result the ESB will need to explore options for how we achieve benefits within current constraints.
Benefits delivered so far?Estimated (non-cashable) benefits of £151m until 2019/20 were based on the assumption of getting the commitment on governance asks. This has not been forthcoming and so these more easily understood benefits will not be secured in the manner originally intended. Significant benefits will be realised through all of the above but we will only be able to be quantify once we are in the position of more fully understanding what the evidence base is telling us, determining more precisely how the Skills Investment Fund might best be used against this, “proving the concept” of the on-line portal and being certain of the actual influence we have locally over SLGF and ESF.
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KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
ENABLERS – BOB REITEMEIER, ESSEX COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
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Strengthening Communities• 4 Community Builder trial areas launched (Southend, Harlow, Tendering & Braintree).
The first two quarterly network meetings were successfully held in August and November.
• Additional Community Builders being led by Essex County Fire & Rescue and Basildon Council
• Timebanking (volunteering scheme) rollout across North and West Essex by Colchester CVS – increased volunteering hours
• VCS strategy developed with partners and now at public consultation• Community Resilience Fund in development• Essex citizens trained on Asset Based Community Development as part of the WECB • Volunteering research into young people completed – outcome will feed in the
development of the proposals within the Strengthening Communities business case.Benefits delivered so far?The proposal document approved in March 2013 didn’t specify financial benefits. The current community builder trials and time banking rollout will provide first performance data over the next 12 months – first data will feed into the full business case due in March/April 2014.
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Strengthening Communities
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU6rGYHUDfc
GOING FURTHER – ESSEX 2020
Halima Khan, DIRECTOR OF NESTA INNOVATION LAB
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GETTING US THERE
Joanna Killian, CHIEF EXECUTIVE ECC
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Public Service Reform – what next?
A more integrated Whitehall
More cross-departmental objectives in government business plans
Double-lock funding
Incentivising departments to work in partnership
Outcome focused spending
A percentage of national public spending to be allocated locally on the basis of outcomes rather than through departments
Place based settlements
Multi-annual funding arrangements for local public services based on CSR periods
Local spending reviews
A local Treasury managing public spending in a place against outcomes agreed locally and nationally
A new model of accountability
A new model of accountability for locally elected leaders overseeing a budget for each place agreed through Parliament
‘Getting us there – 14/15’
• Continuation of collaborative working with partners to deliver our shared projects
• Keeping focused to deliver financial & non-financial benefits
• Support and commitment required from partners to secure the delivery of projects within WECB
• Resource requirements – will not only be cash, also people ‘in kind’
• Continued collaboration with central Government and pressure to deliver our ‘asks’
• Agreeing partners’ vision for on-going Public Service Reforms
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Break-out Sessions
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Break Out Sessions Lead
Domestic Abuse
Updated business case including supporting business cases:Health Pilot, Perpetrator Scheme, Safer Accommodation and Support Services
Kevin Nunn, Chelmer Hall
Reducing Reoffending
Increase understanding of the Reducing Reoffending Business project and implications from Transforming Rehabilitation.
Michael Kay, Upper Hall
Family Solutions
Overview of FS from business case to delivery- understanding the processes, procedures, activities and benefits of the Family Solutions Service.
Lise Bird, Horizon Suite
Strengthening Communities
New SC business case and outline of supporting business cases: Community Builders, Timebanking, Carebanking and volunteering
Jasmine Frost,Chelmer Hall
Housing
Areas under consideration for new business case, exploring how partner’s can achieve their housing objectives by working together on housing and public sector land.
Glen Chipp, Chelmer Hall
‘Social Gateway’
Exploring the idea to create an online platform as the ‘go to’ place for people and practitioners in Essex looking for a single source of public service information, consider scope and next steps.
Sue Pottle, Upper Hall
Break-out Sessions
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In here (Chelmer Hall) Upstairs (Upper Hall)
Upstairs (Horizon Suite)
• Reducing Domestic Abuse
• Housing
• Strengthening Communities
• Reducing Reoffending
• Social Gateway
• Family Solutions
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Dates ActivityNovember & December 2013
Engagement with partners to review business cases and delivery plans including resource requirements for FY 14/15
December 2013 – January 2014
Approval of business cases & delivery plans by responsible project/programme board
18th Dec 2013 Essex Partnership BoardJanuary - February 2014 Formal approval of resources by sovereign
partners18th Feb 2014 Essex Partnership BoardEnd March 2014 Mobilisation of resources for 14/15 delivery
Halima KhanDirector, Innovation Lab
November 2013
Who is Nesta?
Nesta is an independent charity with a mission to help people and organisations bring great ideas to life.
We do this by combining:
Programmes and funds
Investments
Research and policy
Innovation skills Centre for Social ActionInnovation Fund
Public services reform: what next?
• Innovating under conditions of austerity
• Demographics and expectations
• “Initiative-itus”
• Combining community and state resources
• Trust in the face of change
Key challenges
• People powered public (services)
• Partnerships towards integration
• Commissioning for outcomes
• Market making
• New citizen – state contract
Key opportunities
• Provider
• Commissioner
• Convenor
• Campaigner
• Steward
• Mobiliser
Different modes of operating
Reading Borough Council
Early years centres
Such as…
Lambeth mental health services
Alliance contracting
Derbyshire council
Corporate parenting
Essex
Who Will Care?
Innovating systems
PRODUCT AND SERVICE
INNOVATION
MARKET INNOVATION
POLITICAL INNOVATION
CULTURAL INNOVATION
Health for people, by people and with people
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PRODUCT AND SERVICE
INNOVATION
MARKET INNOVATION
POLITICAL INNOVATION
CULTURAL INNOVATION
Public service innovation
• Current vs future cohorts
• Real lives
• Strengths not just needs
Reflections – ‘who’
• Challenge your assumptions
• Solution may not be a service
• Products vs services vs culture vs policy
Reflections – ‘what’
• Mobilising to achieve change
• Design with people not for them
• Experimentation – with a clear route to scale
• Decommission strategically
• Slow and fast
Reflections – ‘how’
• Resilience
• Leadership
• Risk-taking
• Effective decision-making
Reflections – ‘how’
Match ideas with great potential to sources of investment, new business models and the people who can make them work
Halima Khan
[email protected]@halima_khan1