Link Up Hackney Strategic context

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Link Up Hackney Strategic context

• Taking forward the priorities
• Sonia Khan
• 11.15-12.15

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Taking forward the Link Up priorities

• Agreeing priorities (interactive session to
  select priorities from session 2) 10 mins
• Moving identified priorities forward. What can we
  agree to do together? (discussion) 20 mins
• Strategic fit? 15 mins (presentation)
• Where do the priorities sit? 15 mins (discussion)
  

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Agreeing priorities

• What is the highest priority for the Network in
  2007-8?
• Put an sticker next to your top 3 priorities
  add your comments

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Strategic context

• The community strategy and the local area
  agreement
• Hackney Compact
• The Olympics

• Community Empowerment Network
• Team Hackney
• Voluntary sector liaison group
• Hackney Olympics Unit
• Engagement projects and volunteering

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Community strategy and the local area agreement

• Team Hackney Local strategic partnership (LSP)
  dedicated to improving the quality of life for
  everyone in the borough.  It is about developing
  new ways of working and about speeding up
  improvements in service delivery and outcomes.  
• The Partnership produced a Community Strategy
  which set out its vision for the next few years
  and formed the basis of the Local Area Agreement
  (LAA) (2007-2010) between central and local
  government

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5 priority outcomes of LAA
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Local area agreement

• 4 blocks
• Children and young people
• Safer stronger communities
• Healthier communities and older people
• Economic development

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LAA engagement priorities

• Should under pin all partnership activities and
  specific objectives sit within Safer Stronger
  Communities block
• To enable local people and local organisations to
  better engage in the work of the Team Hackney
  partnership
• Empowering local people to have a greater choice
  and influence over local decision making and a
  greater role in public service delivery
• Developing mechanisms for local people to have a
  voice at a local and neighbourhood level that
  feeds into Team Hackneys decision making
  process, supports the increased capacity of local
  people and local organisations to contribute to
  the delivery of the five LAA priority outcomes
• To empower local people to become agents of
  change in their local areas and communities.
• Local outcomes
• Empower local people tohave a greater voice and
  influence over local decision making and a
  greater role in public service delivery
• Growth of a fit for purpose voluntary and
  community sector

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Who do we work with on the LAA?

• The Community Empowerment Network
• Ensure full participation by VCS in meeting Team
  Hackney priorities
• Meet Team Hackney engagement targets
• Developing networks and forums to inform the work
  of Themed Partnership boards
• Build the capacity of the VCS through Community
  Investment Programme

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OUTCOME - improved reach of partnership
OUTCOME - Community orientated LAA delivery
TEAM HACKNEY
Engagement or Commissioning need identified by
partnership
CEN VCS Reps
Information cascaded to CEN Network of Networks
Engagement gap identified
Commissioning priorities identified consulted
on VCS commissioning events
VCS Networks
New network/forum Established
VCS delivery agents
Engagement activities seminars, workshops,
conference events
Wider VCS Local Communities
LAA engagement outcomes Engagement targets
met Delivery of mandatory LAA targets supported
by VCS
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CEN work programme

• Develop mechanisms for local people to have a
  voice at a local and neighbourhood level that
  feeds into Team Hackneys decision making process
• Support the increased capacity of local people
  and local organisations to contribute to the
  delivery of the five LAA priority outcomes
• Empower local people to become agents of change
  in their local areas and communities

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Network Development Programme

• What will it deliver?
• A new structure for engagement see diagram
• Support development of new existing networks
• Resource 15-20 local VCS networks (up to 10k
  each) set up new networks to compliment
  Thematic Structures
• Compliment existing participatory structures
• Added reach for Engagement mechanisms of Team
  Hackney

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How the CEN work programme relates to local VCS
structures and Team Hackney
TEAM HACKNEY FAMILY OF PARTNERSHIPS
BOARD REPS
THEMATIC REPS
VCS NETWORKS
VCS NETWORKS
GRANTS PANEL
CEN Executive
VCS NETWORKS
VCS NETWORKS
THEMATIC REPS
THEMATIC REPS
THEMATIC REPS
THEMATIC REPS
VCS NETWORKS
VCS NETWORKS
VCS GROUPS
VCS NETWORKS
VCS NETWORKS
VCS GROUPS
NETWORK PROGRAMME
ENGAGEMENT/INFORMATION PORTAL WOMENS
GOVERNANCE COMMUNITY ENTREPRENEURS REFUGEE
COMMUNITY CHAMPIONS COMMISSIONING
SUPPORT TRAINING PROGRAMME CAPACITY BUILDING
VCS GROUPS
VCS GROUPS
VCS GROUPS
VCS GROUPS
VCS GROUPS
VCS GROUPS
VCS GROUPS
VCS GROUPS
SMALL GRANTS
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SAFER CLEANER
Team Hackney family of Partnerships
STOKENEWINGTON NEIGHBOURHOOD
NORTH EAST NEIGHBOURHOOD
REFUGEE ARTS
CHATTAM PILOT
Related Team Hackney Activity
THEATRE
YOUTH ARTS
1900 VCS ORGS
WOODBERRY DOWN SRB
SHOREDITCH NEIGHBOURHOOD
PARKS FORUM
VCS-led network
HEN
BEMA
LITERATURE
HOMERTON NEIGHBOURHOOD
CARNIVAL
HSEN
Statutory-led network or agency
ACL
HEP
SHOREDITCH TRUST
ACL
DISCOVER YOUNG HACKNEY
PEACE WEEK
STOKEFEST
SHOREDITCH FESTIVAL
BETTER HOMES
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
ALMO
HACKNEY TRAINING ENTERPRISE NETWORK
BETTER HOMES NETWORK
RSLS
reps
JOB CENTRE PLUS
COLLEGES
LEAD
LSC
reps
reps
1900 VCS ORGS
TENANTS RESIDENTS ASSOCIATIONS
1900 VCS ORGS
TH BOARD
COMMUNITY INVESTMENT
TENANTS CONVENTION
reps
REGENER ATION
reps
SKILLS 4 LIFE
ASSET MANAGEMENT
OLYMPICS
PRISON SERVICE
PARK USER GROUPS
CULTURAL DELIVERY
reps
reps
SERVICE FIRST
reps
HACKNEY ENVIRONMENT FORUM
PARKS FORUM
PROBATION
VCS HUBS
reps
COMPACT
CEN
COMMUNI CATIONS
CHATTAM PILOT
VSLG
CABINET/COUNCILLORS
HCVS
STRATEGIC COMMISSIONING
1900 VCS ORGS
ADVICE STRATEGY
ENGAG EMENT
PCG
LIVEABILITY
PIE PAG
reps
PCT
reps
SAFER CLEANER
BOARD CHAMPIONS
reps
LGBT FORUM
THRIVING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES
POLICE
reps
reps
LEARNING TRUST
POLICE SAFER NEIGHBOURHOOD TEAMS
PALS
reps
DV GROUP
FIRE BRIGADE
DISABILITY REFERENCE GROUP
DRUG ACTION
USER FORA
SCHOOLS
reps
SCHOOL GOVENORS
COUNCIL FOR OLDER PEOPLE
reps
CAPS
OLDER PEOPLE REF. GROUP
ASB
YOUTH PARLIAMENT
HEALTH SOCIAL CARE FORUM
SAFER SCHOOLS PARTNERSHIP
YOUTH CRIME
LAA NRF
LEARNING DIFFICULTIES
1900 VCS ORGS
MENTAL HEALTH REF. GROUP
reps
CHILDRENS CENTRES
reps
reps
CHILDREN YOUNG PEOPLE /TRUST
4 YOUTH NETWORKS
CYP PROVIDERS FORUM
reps
KNIFE VIOLENT CRIME COMMUNITY NETWORK
CYP PARTICI PATION
HACKNEY WOMENS FORUM
VCS YOUTH ORGS
reps
OPERATION STABIISER
HACKNEY REFUGEE FORUM
HACKNEY AFRICAN FORUM (HIV)
SPORTS PARTNERSHIP
YOUTH SERVICES
MOBILE GANG INTERVENTION
VOLUNTEER FORUM
YOUTH FUTURES
YOUTH OFFER
PLAY PROVIDERS NETWORK
INTERFAITH NETWORK
PAKISTANI / BANGLADESHI YOUTH FORUM
BLACK MALE EMPOWERMENT NETWORK
reps
CHAREDI COMMUNITY NETWORK
TURKISH / KURDISH COMMUNITY NETWORK
VCS map of engagement opportunities into Team
Hackney
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Olympics

• 24 projects
• 6 themes
• - transport - employment
  enterprise
• - sustainable benefits - increased
  participation
• - community engagement - image
  reputation
• Volunteering is a key theme across the programme
  an opportunity to develop Hackneys own 2012
  volunteering opportunities

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Hackney Compact

• A clear framework for partnership working between
  the statutory authorities and the VCS to achieve
  the vision set out in the community strategy
• Compact action plan identified series of
  priorities inc training on Link Up, enhancing
  procurement practicesbut need update on progress

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London Borough of Hackney

• Voluntary sector liaison group
• Support the delivery of Hackneys LinkUp work
  programme
• Review and monitor compact in conjunction with
  Team Hackney
• The Voluntary Sector Services Team works in
  partnership with voluntary and community
  organisations to deliver quality services that
  meet the needs of the community. The Team offers
  a direct interface between the council and the
  local voluntary and community sector which
  ensures that the voice and concerns of local
  voluntary sector organisations are effectively
  heard throughout the council.

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Matching our priorities with strategic context

• How do the priorities connect with this strategic
  context?
• What groups do we need to develop joint working
  with?
• What groups need to fund or support Link Up?