Running with LAAs: Tuesday 30 October

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Running with LAAs Tuesday 30 October

• Isobel Mills, Deputy Regional Director,
  Government Office for Yorkshire and The Humber

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Running with LAAs Tuesday 30 October

• To cover
• Overview of the agenda
• Lessons from practice so far
• Things that may be concerning you
• and what can be done about them

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Running with LAAs Tuesday 30 October

• A new central-local relationship
• New duties for partners
• A much strengthened focus on community
  involvement
• Cross-cutting activities and service
  transformation

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A new central-local relationship

• ¾ councils good or excellent
• Sense that the easy stuff is done
• Significant growth in trust of LAs to deliver
• Too many targets
• Complexity of 21 century life

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New duties for partners

• Named partners in Bill (inc PCTs, FTs, NHS Trusts
  but not VCFS)
• Duty to co-operate
• Duty to have regard to targets
• Creating shared priorities for places

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A much strengthened focus on community involvement

• Duty to involve
• Community Calls for Action
• Neighbourhood Charters
• Significant numbers of survey indicators in new
  indicator set
• CAA measuring community engagement
• Government focus

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Cross-cutting activities and service
transformation

• PSAs
• Thriving third sector
• Broadening of LAAs into more complex areas
  (ageing, chronic conditions, alcohol harm)
• Varney report
• democratisation of services

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Lessons from practice so far

• Feasibility testing involving 17 partnerships
  May to July
• Many different approaches all u2 35 to some
  samples (bullying Third Sector added value)
• Focus tending to be on cross cutting issues
• Process as important as outcomes
• Two formal workshops
• Written report (on CLG website)

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Lessons from practice so far for Central
Government

• Is this about under-performance or ambition?
• Which places matter most?
• Do I need my priorities in?
• How much will I let go?
• Outcomes v inputs
• User views

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Lessons from practice so far for Government
Offices

• shadow priorities testing own sense with
  partners
• Some themes needing additional expertise
• Difficulty of different spatial levels
• Doesnt get done through paper trails
• In the lead- but in the middle

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Lessons from practice so far for partners

• Need a process for getting to priorities
• Need to tell the story of the area..
• ..so soft evidence as important as data
• Some wholly new opportunities this time round
• Are some things just too hard?

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Things that may be concerning you

• Pace and complexity
• Getting your indicators in
• Not being a named partner
• Balance between social and economic
• Funding changes
• Knowing who to talk to
• Wider picture

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and what can be done about them

• Playing a strong role on LSPs
• Thinking about outcomes rather than indicators
• Drawing on your own evidence
• Opening up debate on vulnerable adults
• Understanding the service transformation agenda
• Championing the community empowerment agenda

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Finally

• One doesnt discover new lands without consenting
  to lose sight of the shore for a very long time
• Andre Gide