Annual General Meeting

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• Annual General Meeting
• 2 September 2008

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Chairmans address

• Katherine Kirk
• Independent Chair 2007/08
• Southend Together

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Key Events 2007/08

• Ade Butteriss
• Partnerships Team

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Key events 2007/08

• Development
• of the Partnership itself
• of the Partnerships focus
• of national and regional policy affecting the
  Partnership

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Developing the Partnership itself
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Getting the governance balance right
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Developing the Partnership
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Developing the Partnership

• Performance Management Group
• (Sept 2007)
• Cross Partnership Working Groups
• (late 2007, early 2008)
• Data Observatory, Area Based Grant Procurement,
  Communications, Internal Audit (late 2007, early
  2008)
• Engagement and Consultation (on its way)
• New identity / logo/ branding (August 2008)

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Identity and branding
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Developing the Partnerships Focus

• Sign off Sustainable Community Strategy
  2007-2017
• (July 2007)
• Sign off worked up vision
• (September 2007)

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Developing the Partnerships Focus

• Delivered old LAA
• (March 2008)
• 3/4 on target at end of year 1,
• 80 of reward targets achieved target
• (5m reward for achieving 13 existing stretch
  targets by 2010)

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Old LAA refreshed (April 2008)

• New Priorities
• Strengthening the local economy
• Raising aspirations and achievement
• Making a safer place to live
• Leading a cohesive community
• Tackling health inequalities
• Safeguarding a high quality, sustainable
  environment
• Revitalising Southends image

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New LAA 2008-11 (from June 2008)
Agreed new Local Area Agreement targets with
Government (May 08) 35 targets from National
Indicator Set 19 local targets Performance
Reward Grant for improved performance c2m
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National and regional policy developments

• Area Based Grant
• Comprehensive Area Assessment

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• Key Strategic Partnership Presentations

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Health and Wellbeing Partnership Board

• Cllr Mark Flewitt (Chair)

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A genuine partnership
Health and Wellbeing Partnership Board

• Southend Borough Council
• NHS South East Essex PCT
• Southend Hospital Foundation Trust
• South Essex Mental Health Trust
• Southend Association of Voluntary Services
• (also representing SUs and carers)

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Challenges and successes
Health and Wellbeing Partnership Board

• JSNA to identify common priorities for action
• A clear need to deal with health inequalities
  that exist within our community
• To continue to improve service quality and
  promote independence (Transforming Social Care
  Community Health Care agenda)

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LAA targets
Health and Wellbeing Partnership Board

• Vulnerable people supported to live independently
  
• Achieving independence for older people through
  rehabilitation/ intermediate care
• Social Care clients receiving Self Directed
  Support
• Adults with learning disabilities/ mental health
  challenges in employment

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LAA Targets
Health and Wellbeing Partnership Board

• Obesity among primary school age children in Year
  6
• Emotional and behavioural health of children in
  care
• Effectiveness of child and adolescent mental
  health (CAMHs) services

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LAA Targets (cont)
Health and Wellbeing Partnership Board

• Under 18 conception rate
• Prevalence of Chlamydia in under 25 year olds
• All-age all cause mortality rate
• Smoking quitters from 5 most deprived wards
• Alcohol-harm related hospital admission rates
• Drug users in effective treatment
• Prevalence of breastfeeding

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LAA Targets (cont)
Health and Wellbeing Partnership Board

• Under 18 conception rate
• Prevalence of Chlamydia in under 25 year olds
• All-age all cause mortality rate
• Smoking quitters from 5 most deprived wards
• Alcohol-harm related hospital admission rates
• Drug users in effective treatment
• Prevalence of breastfeeding

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These are being addressed e.g.
Health and Wellbeing Partnership Board

• Obesity to maintain and improve fitness levels
  among school children, regular weighing and
  measurement sessions are conducted with early
  advice provided if necessary to avoid future
  health issues
• Smoking the target to support 377 quitters in
  2008/09 is on track between April June 08 74
  members of the community accepted the challenge
  to quit smoking, with support from partner
  agencies.

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Cross cutting initiatives
Health and Wellbeing Partnership Board

• Housing - improving standards Older Peoples
  Accommodation and development of extra care. Aids
  and adaptations. HIA
• Reducing alcohol related harm
• Effective treatment for drug users
• Improving employment opportunities for SUs and
  carers

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However, the need to make a real difference for
the community requires new approaches.
Health and Wellbeing Partnership Board

• The Joint Commissioning Framework is one such
  example of a new approach
• Partners combining actual resources to target
  health and well being challenges and inequalities
  in the community. No barriers, just simply
  focusing energy and resources on community needs.
  A template possibly for further flexible working
  by partners across Southend

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Safer and Stronger Communities Board

• Simon Ford
• Partnership Manager Community Safety
• Celia Clarke
• Stronger Communities Executive (Chair)

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Safer and Stronger Communities Board(Safer)

• Mission
• Working together to reduce crime and disorder and
  anti social behaviour, and to improve safety for
  everyone living, working or visiting Southend.

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Safer and Stronger Communities Board(Safer)

• Scope
• Meet the targets as determined by 2008/11 Local
  Area Agreement.
• Respond to the findings from the local Strategic
  Intelligence Assessment

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Safer and Stronger Communities Board(Safer)

• Structure/members
• Board, chaired by Supt Williams
• Executive, chaired by Chief Insp Walker
• Range of working groups reporting into Executive,
  e.g. NTEG, Domestic Abuse Forum, PPO, ASBOG etc
• Membership includes representatives from Police,
  SBC, EFRS, PCT, Essex Probation, DARG, South
  Essex Homes and SAVS.
• Key plans/delivery vehicles
• 2008/11 Crime and Disorder Partnership Plan
• Annual Strategic intelligence Assessment

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Safer and Stronger Communities Board(Safer)

• Key achievements in 2007/08
• 20 Crime Reduction in last 3 years
• Night Time Economy Group
• Multi Agency Community Safety Team
• Enhanced Communications
• Developed a safe route in Town Centre

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Safer and Stronger Communities Board(Safer)

• 5 key ambitions for 2008/09
• Appointment of full time DV Coordinator
• Meet 08/09 LAA milestone targets
  (woundings/domestic violence)
• Reduce criminal damage by 5
• Achieve key actions as determined by Crime and
  Disorder Partnership Plan 08/011
• Introduce night time events to attract more
  diverse visitors to our Town centre

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Safer and Stronger Communities Board(Safer)

• Key challenges for 2008/09
• Achieve LAA milestone targets, which have
  attached reward funding
• Change the type of visitors who have historically
  been attracted to the Town Centre
• Preventing inaccurate reporting of criminal
  damage
• Introduce 3rd party reporting sites for victims
  of hate crime
• Improving data collection methods across partner
  agencies that record ASB

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Safer Stronger Communities Board(Stronger)

• Mission
• Working in partnership to improve community
  cohesion, and working towards a sustainable
  environment for Southend.

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Safer Stronger Communities Board(Stronger)

• Scope
• To deliver services in partnership, to meet the
  needs of the new Local Area Agreement.

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Safer Stronger Communities Board (Stronger)

• Board, chaired by Supt Williams
• Executive, chaired by Celia Clark
• Members include
• Southend Borough Council
• Southend Association of Voluntary Services
• Environment Agency
• Turning Tides Neighbourhood Management
• Essex Fire and Rescue Service
• Work is delivered through work groups
• Sustainability
• Road Safety
• Volunteering
• Neighbourhood Management
• Community Cohesion

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Safer Stronger Communities Board (Stronger)

• Top achievements in 2007/08
• Volunteering Target exceeded by 16
• Recycling Target exceeded by 4
• Turning Tides provided over 4500 hours of
  patrol, gave assistance to 400 vulnerable
  residents, and cleared over 150 items of
  discarded drugs paraphernalia.

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Safer Stronger Communities Board (Stronger
Communities Executive)

• Key ambitions for 2008/09
• Working together to deliver appropriate and
  effective services that reflect the diversity of
  Southends community will help to embed the
  principles of Cohesion across all service sectors
  and partnership groups
• Identification of barriers to influence local
  decision making and efforts to promote and
  encourage involvement from harder to reach groups
  will strengthen sense of community integration.
• A customer focused approach will aim to reduce
  enviro-crime through a programme of education and
  enforcement, providing an efficient and effective
  service to improve the local quality of
  environment, improve customer satisfaction levels
  and embed a customer focussed approach.
• With contractors we aim to reduce biodegradable
  waste being sent to landfill and further increase
  recycling.
• To take advantage of participation in National
  Schemes

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Safer Stronger Communities Board (Stronger)

• Top 5 challenges for 2008/09
• Improve cohesion within the partnership
• Meet all environmental/recycling targets to
  deliver a sustainable future for Southend
• Use principles of neighbourhood management to
  ensure that residents views are heard.
• Work with partners to ensure that the principles
  of Compact are recognised.
• Continue to involve volunteers including those
  from hard to reach groups, as each and every
  volunteer is a vital link in the chain that
  enriches our local community.

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Enterprise Community Environment

• Ashley Jarvis
• Enterprise and Innovation Team
• Southend Borough Council

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Enterprise Community Environment

• Mission
• To bring together a wide range of agencies and
  organisations deliver to facilitate collaborative
  and coherent strategy development and delivery
  across the partnerships remit including the
  opportunity for the alignment and pooling of
  multi agency resources to deliver a coherent and
  strategic approach to delivery

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Enterprise Community Environment

• Scope
• Housing
• Enterprise, Business and Skills
• Culture
• Transport

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Enterprise Community Environment

• The ECEP is made up of an overarching strategic
  partnership board that includes representatives
  of agencies and partners with a strategic
  engagement across the partnership's remit. There
  are 4 delivery sub groups that engage partners
  with a particular interest or specialism in the
  different areas.
• Key plans/delivery vehicles
• Each delivery sub group turns the LAA into
  measurable targets and actions. Each groupo
  engages service delivery agencies, local
  residents and key stakeholders.

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Enterprise Community Environment

• Top 5 achievements in 2007/08
• In 2007/08 this part of the LAA was limited to
  working on Skills and Entrepreneurship. During
  that time the following was achieved.
• Increase in businesses accessing start up
  support from 68 in 05/06 to 120 in 07/08
• Improved access to diagnostic business support
  with 157 businesses accessing this in 07/08.
• Development of a voucher system to enable
  businesses to access support
• Development of a new skills for prosperity
  programme

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Enterprise Community Environment

• Top 5 achievements in 2007/08
• In 2007/08 this part of the LAA was limited to
  working on Skills and Entrepreneurship. During
  that time the following was achieved.
• Increase in businesses accessing start up
  support from 68 in 05/06 to 120 in 07/08
• Improved access to diagnostic business support
  with 157 businesses accessing this in 07/08.
• Development of a voucher system to enable
  businesses to access support
• Development of a new skills for prosperity
  programme

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Enterprise Community Environment

• 5 key ambitions for 2008/09
• The ECEP has widened its remit and revised its
  governance structures for 2008 onwards. Key
  ambitions for this period include
• Development of a cycling town
• Mapping the skills profiles of growth sectors
• Establish a skills network for growth sectors
• Develop the Housing Strategy to increase the
  supply of affordable housing in addition to the
  windfall Section 106 sites.
• Work closely with the private sector to increase
  prevention and intervention work to enable
  greater use of the private sector in homeless
  prevention

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Enterprise Community Environment

• Top 5 challenges for 2008/09
• The economic downturn
• Fluctuations in the Housing market
• Winding down of the LSC and devolution of
  responsibilities
• Sub National review of Economic Development
• Securing investment in transport infrastructure
• Realising the future for the Saxon King

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Southend Childrens Partnership

• Paul Greenhalgh Chair of the Southend
  Childrens Partnership Executive

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Southend Childrens Partnership

• Mission
• For all Southend children and young people, to
• Help them raise their aspirations and achievement
• Ensure they have the opportunities they need for
  inclusion
• Facilitate their participation in decisions that
  affect their lives
• Strive for excellence in the services provided

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Southend Childrens Partnership

• Scope
• Accountable for the five Every Child Matters
  outcomes
• Being healthy
• Staying safe
• Enjoy and achieve
• Making a positive contribution
• Economic well-being

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Southend Childrens Partnership

• Structure
• Board, chaired by Rob Tinlin
• Executive, chaired by Paul Greenhalgh
• Range of working groups reporting into Executive,
  e.g. early years partnership, 14-19 partnership
• Links with Local Safeguarding Children Board
• Membership - All partners working with children
  and young people SBC, health, police, voluntary
  sector, dioceses, early years providers, schools,
  FE, training providers
• Key plans/delivery vehicles
• Children and Young People Plan 2007-10 and
  2008-09 annual update
• Integrated locality working arrangements

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Top five achievements in 2007-08

• Improved outcomes
• APA 2006 APA 2007 Selfassess 08
• Being healthy Adequate Adequate Good
• Staying safe Adequate Adequate Good
• Enjoy and achieve Adequate Good Good
• Positive contribution Adequate Adequate Good
• Economic well-being Adequate Good Good
• Capacity to improve Adequate Good Good
• Improving early intervention and prevention CAF
  integrated working
• Embedding improvements in social care, e.g.
  Fostering inspection
• Positive feedback from GO, e.g. early years
  outstanding, integrated youth support well
  embedded and confident
• Schools quality and standards good/outstanding
  66 overall, 73 primary cf 62 nationally
• Increasing number of national pilots, e.g.
  health-led parenting, Think Family, Support and
  Challenge

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Southend Childrens Partnership 5 key ambitions
for 2008-09

• Priorities in Children and Young People Plan
• Inspire high aspirations for children and young
  people
• Reduce health inequalities
• Ensure children are safe
• Enable children and young people to achieve
  highly
• Enable children and young people to make a
  positive contribution
• Help young people to achieve economic well-being
• Further strengthen partnership working

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Southend childrens partnership top 5
challenges for 2008-09

• Narrowing the outcomes gap between all Southend
  children and those from disadvantaged groups
• Extending the involvement of children, young
  people, families and the community
• Strengthening the joint commissioning and
  integrated financial planning of the partnership
• Journeying to excellence in services for children
  and young people
• Place joined up work with other Key Strategic
  Partnerships in communities

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• Question and Answer Session

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• Local Area Agreement Signing