Comprehensive Area Assessment Suffolk Performance Management Group

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Comprehensive Area AssessmentSuffolk
Performance Management Group
Edwina Child Area Assessment Lead (for
Suffolk) 9th July 2009
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Progress

• Originally identified 54 risks in Suffolk after
  desktop analysis first round of presentations
  and these were the basis of LSP self assessment
  diagnostic
• Report to PMG 19th March PMG requested further
  engagement with partners, particularly
  councillors - done (except for Babergh DC and One
  Ipswich)
• Extensive analysis of information and interviews
  held with key partners this is on-going
  (September cut off)

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Progress

• Dialogue started with all Partners Early and
  Often challenge coming back on emerging issues
  good level of engagement and feedback e.g.
  Ipswich/ Forest Heath/ Waveney (see new issues)
• Inspectorates now contributing - OfSTED and CQC
  attended meeting on 16th June agreed areas of
  interest/ concern
• Over 700 judgements in evidence file to date
  regular QA (every three weeks) with core team of
  experts and evidence sharing with other CAALs

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New issues of concern raised

• Rural transport - particular problems for young
  peoples mobility and access (marginalising)
• Not enough stuff in the right place older
  people and young families (disproportionate
  access e.g. Ipswich v Waveney)
• Impact of government policy and funding
• Planning restrictions
• Lack of infrastructure monies to improve roads
• EEDA funding decisions
• Coastal protection funding limits
• Impact of USAFE personnel in Forest Heath

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New issues of concern raised

• Support for people with mild learning
  disabilities to access volunteering and jobs
• Getting maximum value out of the Third Sector
• Some gaps and concerns in health provision e.g
• - No Admiral Nurses to support growing numbers
  of
• Alzheimers sufferers
• - Crossroads Care not available in rural areas
• because of transport costs
• - Future of cardiac care
• - Childrens Community Nursing Team smaller in
  
• West than Ipswich area

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New issues of concern raised AC report available

• Housing (16,000 people registered for social
  housing )
• Skewed private sector housing availability in
  Forest Heath because of USAFE needs
• Affordable housing increasingly becoming a rural
  issue (e.g. shared ownership properties difficult
  to sell in Ipswich)
• High number of empty properties (3,664) highest
  in Waveney, Suffolk Coastal and Babergh lowest
  in Forest Heath (just 12)
• 500 social units empty (148 in Ipswich)
• Poor condition of private housing stock
• Lack of supported accommodation for YP in Forest
  Heath and St Edmundsbury.
• Gap in provision of housing support for victims
  of domestic violence in Babergh, Mid Suffolk and
  Suffolk Coastal

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Tags
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Self Assessment for Suffolk

• Thank You! Lots of information
• Better in some places than others good analysis
  of economic development challenges (match with
  our emerging judgements as follows)
• No coherent approach to economic development with
  overlaps and gaps. There is a disjointed approach
  with a funding split across a number of agencies
  and this jeopardises future funding
  opportunities
• White space in the middle of the county because
  of funding divide between sub-regional
  partnerships
• Transport infrastructure problems in the north

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Self Assessment for Suffolk

• Some good analysis of education attainment and
  improving skills challenges (match with our
  judgments as follows)
• A key challenge is that current school and skills
  attainment levels are not keeping pace with
  national averages
• NEET figures are higher than average although
  improving (but not catching up as fast as
  partners would like despite good focus and
  activity)
• Suffolk starting from a low skills base.

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Self Assessment for Suffolk

• Some good examples of what partners are trying to
  achieve within the Greenest County Delivery
  Partnership but no analysis of how this compares
  with other counties and more links with outcomes
  would be good (sort of a match with Green Tag on
  Saving Energy/Alternative forms of Energy)
• However, some of the text lost focus and was less
  an analysis and more a scatter gun approach
  without a clear story although a clear match with
  Street Prostitution Green Tag
• It is helpful to have the separate LSP analysis
  because these are rich in good information about
  targeted work to address key priorities (WSLSP
  and One Ipswich were very good at capturing all
  of their initiatives and Waveney has an ongoing
  dialogue updating information with good regular
  engagement with GY Waveney NHS)

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What happens next?

• Evidence continues to build and challenge from
  core experts of our analysis
• Use of Resources Assessments/ Managing
  Performance Assessments/ Organisational
  Assessments (for councils) add to the picture
• On going sharing of analysis with other
  inspectorates
• Report gets written over the summer to be
  shared with LSPs in the early autumn
• Public reporting now on 10th December.