Norfolk Ambition

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Norfolk Ambition

• Towards a Local Area Agreement for Norfolk
• Stakeholder event
• July 13th 2005

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Outcomes from today

• A better shared understanding about Local Area
  Agreements
• An early picture of what success will look like
  as a result of this Norfolk LAA
• Initial ideas for outcomes that we want for
  Norfolk people

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Todays agenda

• Share the latest information from Go East about
  Local Area Agreements
• Group work on outcomes taking LSP priorities as
  our starting point
• Initial thinking about principles
• Taking it forward

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Capturing issues

• Flipchart and post-its
• Please use those to write up issues/questions
  throughout the session

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• Local Area Agreements - latest

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What are LAAs

• Agreements between partners in an area to deliver
  priorities for local people
• A shared, specific action plan with
• outcomes
• targets
• milestones
• for which we will be held to account

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LAAs are about

• building on what we already do
• improving outcomes making a difference for
  people
• tackling common ground we all share
• amplifying local voices - listening, and acting
• removing some fetters around bureaucracy

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LAAs are not about

• a county take-over
• activity without progress
• dismantling things that work well
• pooling funding streams just because we can
• doing the same but writing it down in a new
  document

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Details of the guidance

• Three-year agreement which sets out the
  priorities for a local area
• Agreement between Government (Go East) and the
  local area - represented by the LSP, other
  partners and local authority.
• Refreshed annually
• Performance checked - six monthly

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Grouping priorities

• Outcomes and targets aimed at delivering better
  quality of life by improving local and national
  priorities
• Outcomes grouped round 4 blocks - but should not
  be confined to these blocks
• Look for cross-cutting outcomes

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Children and young people
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Safer and stronger communities
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Healthier communities and older people
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Economic development and enterprise
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Cross-cutting outcomes
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Outcomes from other LAAs

• Halt the year on year rise in obesity in
  under-11s (Derbyshire)
• Bring all social housing into decent condition
  (Derbyshire)
• Close the gap between achievement of children in
  Sure Start areas and rest of the county (Suffolk)

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Outcomes from other LAAs

• All enclosed public places and workplaces to be
  smoke-free by 2008 (Suffolk)
• Increase older people claiming pension credit
  council tax benefit (Suffolk)
• More people volunteering and engaged with local
  communities (Devon)
• Anti-social behaviour reduced (Devon)

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Voluntary and community sector

• Community engagement and delivery by third sector
  important across all blocks
• LAA should include a statement of involvement of
  VCS and local people in design and delivery of
  the agreement

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Who does what

• Taken forward by local authorities and Local
  Strategic Partnerships
• In three-tier areas, county council and county
  LSP lead negotiations
• District Council and district LSP involvement is
  crucial
• Town and parish councils should be engaged
• Go East broker the agreement and performance
  manage us

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Agreement process

• Step One preparatory work. Stakeholders work to
  identify priority outcomes
• Step two initial submission to Go East by end
  of September. Agree outcomes by end of October

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Agreement process (2)

• Step three negotiation indicators, end of
  December finalise funding streams, freedoms and
  flexibilities closing negotiations 24th February
  2006
• Step four delivery against operational plans
  from April 2006. Continuing dialogue with Go
  East, including six-monthly stock take meetings

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LPSA and Local Area Agreements

• Norfolk has a new LPSA agreement under the
  auspices of the County Strategic Partnership
• Stretch targets around attainment, crime
  reduction, passenger transport, older peoples
  independence, NEET, domestic violence, public
  satisfaction with services

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LPSA and LAA (2)

• LPSA will be brought into the Local Area
  Agreement
• Targets and stretch will not need to be
  re-visited
• LPSA targets built up from priorities for
  Norfolk provide a good fit with the four
  blocks

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Funding streams

• Some can be pooled centrally ie grouped
  together and paid in one lump to the accountable
  body
• Such funds must contribute to outcomes in the
  LAA. In return there are some freedoms on
  reporting and monitoring
• This is not new money it is already directed and
  allocated

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Neighbourhood Renewal Funding

• Remains targeted to the NRF area
• In two-tier areas, where funding from the NRU is
  for a specific district, funding must be directed
  from the county council to the eligible district
  who must use the funding to help tackle
  deprivation...
• Relevant for Great Yarmouth

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Funding streams - examples

• Carers Grant
• Choice Protects - supporting vulnerable children
• Connexions
• Extended schools
• Positive Activities for Young People
• Transforming youth work

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What this might mean

• LPSA2 reward grant might provide a model for
  pooling
• Norfolk Waste Partnership - all districts and
  county working towards stretch targets
• Pooling and sharing any reward grant they achieve

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What this might mean (2)

• Customer satisfaction - joint approach between
  two districts and county shared targets pooled
  reward grant
• Crime reduction - 7 CDRPs working towards stretch
  targets pooling reward grant

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Glass half full or half empty?

• Could be seen as a loss of control
• Or as a new opportunity to influence
• And giving a greater say in how things are done
  for Norfolk people
• Freedoms and flexibilities - including the
  ability to carry over

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Learning from pilots

• Concentrate first on outcomes - what is it you
  want to achieve
• Consider the scale of ambition
• Three-tier LAAs are complex to work through
• It will test, but should strengthen partnership
  working

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Learning from pilots (2)

• Senior management and senior member commitment
  important
• Identify leads for each block with specialist
  support ensuring consistency
• Consult widely beyond the local authority
• Engage VCS early
• Needs good leadership and project management

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What we think well need

• Principles about our collective working
• A core team of people who can do stuff
• Expert leads for each block
• Relevant groups/partnerships for each block
• A decision making and accountability framework
• Clear communications

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Questions and discussion
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Towards Norfolk Outcomes

• Not starting from blank piece of paper
• Likely to be based on CSP/LSP Priorities
• Analysis of current priorities and identification
  of common areas
• Links to LPSA 2
• What are the priorities identified by local
  people

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Summary of CSP/LSP priorities

• Children and young people
• - Integrate childrens services
• - Improve 14 19 learning
• - Improve educational attainment
• - Engage young people as active citizens
• - Broaden range of facilities for young
  people

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Summary of CSP/LSP priorities

• Healthier Communities Older People
• - Health improvement campaigns
• - Reduce inequalities
• - Reduce Teenage Pregnancy
• - Improve local health services
• - Implement older people strategy
• - Drugs and Alcohol prevention
• - Increase access to cultural events

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Summary of CSP/LSP priorities

• Safe and Stronger Communities
• - Implementation of CDRP Action Plans
• - Reduce domestic violence
• - Improve community cohesion
• - Implement ChangeUp Norfolk
• - Improve and protect the environment

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Summary of CSP/LSP priorities

• Economic Development Enterprise
• - Raise aspirations
• - Increase skills
• - Develop regeneration, including the
• rural economy

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Summary of CSP/LSP priorities

• What contributes to all the blocks
• Affordable Housing
• Transport/Accessibility
• Environment

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Links to LPSA2

• Children young people
• Primary attainment
• Secondary attainment
• Reducing the 16 18 NEET population
• Looked after children qualifications

• Healthier Communities
• older people
• Improving the independence of older people

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Links to LPSA 2 (cont.)

• Safer and Stronger Communities
• Youth Crime
• Domestic Violence
• Crime Reduction
• Fear of Crime

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What are the priorities identified by local
people?

• Most important to making somewhere a
• good place to live (BVPI Survey, Norfolk)
• Low level of crime (75)
• Health services (54)
• Affordable decent housing (45)
• Clean streets (41)
• Public transport (36)

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What most needs improving in Norfolk? (BVPI
Survey, Norfolk)

• Clean Streets (53)
• Activities for teenagers (50)
• Affordable decent housing (50)
• Low level of crime (39)
• Public Transport (37)
• Road/Pavement repairs (35)
• Facilities for young children (35)

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Over to you developing the outcomes

• This is the first stage in the process
• Not deciding the final outcomes today
• Working towards agreeing the priority areas

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Taking forward the outcomes

• Existing standing networks include
• District Chief Executives Group
• District LSP Partnership Officers (LSP network)
• Norfolk LGA

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Taking forward the outcomes (2)

• Building on existing themed partnerships
• Children and Young Peoples Strategic Partnership
• Strategic Crime Reduction Group
• Health/older people - steer needed
• Shaping the Future
• Voluntary Sector Consortium

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Principles - a starting point

• Engagement of all partners
• Engagement of Voluntary and Community Sector
• Clear, regular, on-going dialogue between all
  partners

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What we do next - suggestions

• Meeting with Go East 21st July. Will post a
  summary on Norfolk Ambition website
• Will work with existing themed partnerships and
  others to develop outcomes
• Feedback progress at Management Group 7th Sept
  Norfolk CSP conference 16th Sept

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What we do next - suggestions

• Information for both those events will be on the
  Norfolk Ambition website
• Re-convene this group?
• Develop a presentation/FAQ for you to use with
  partnerships, groups, teams