Preston Neighbourhood Management Partnerships

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Preston Neighbourhood Management
Partnerships Developing Excellence in
Neighbourhood Management
Jennifer Carthy - Neighbourhood Manager Annette
Stevens - Senior Neighbourhood Manager
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Local Context

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Background

• Four Neighbourhood Management Partnerships since
  2003
• Structures for partnership working
• Levels of community involvement
• Monitoring and feedback to services
• Influencing service delivery place shaping
• Building community capacity

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Getting Started

• RENEW Northwest call out
• Northwest Focus Group
• Series of workshops
• Developed criteria
• Assessment methods
• Developed workbook
• Existing Excellence model

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Keys Area of Excellent

• Leadership
• Planning
• People
• Management of Partnerships Resources
• Process Management
• Results

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Assessment processes

• Staff team task
• Resident/partner involvement
• Desktop exercise
• Review policies and processes
• Evaluate partnership arrangements
• External assessor visit
• Identify areas of strength/lessons learned
• Feedback to partners

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Areas of strength

• Resident involvement
• Influencing grass-roots delivery
• Strong partner relationships
• Innovative ways of working
• Sharing resources
• Strong team work

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Lessons learned

• Duplication of community engagement methods
• Use community assets more effectively
• Need to utilise local leaders better
• Strengthen service accountability processes
• More robust partnership data sharing
• More strategic buy in
• Challenges of a two tier authority

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Next Steps

• Neighbourhood Working Action Plan
• Review community engagement arrangements
• Developing wider neighbourhood working across the
  city
• Member training programme
• Review Value For Money processes

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Policy Context

• National Indicators and Local Area Agreement
• Local Government and Public Health Act 2007
• Sustainable Communities Act 2007
• Empowerment White Paper 2008
• Comprehensive Area Assessment 2009

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Contact Details
Jennifer Carthy Neighbourhood Manager 01772-827938
j.carthy_at_preston.gov.uk Annette Stevens Senior
Neighbourhood Manager 01772- a.stevens_at_preston.gov
.uk