Cultural Improvement Partnership East Midlands

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Cultural Improvement Partnership East Midlands

• Local Government Improvement Strategy for
  Culture Sport in the South East
• Princes Hall, Aldershot, 18 June 2008
• Sue Grace Head of Customer Cultural Services
  Northamptonshire County Council
• Board Member of Cultural Improvement
  Partnership East Midlands

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• ENRICHING LIVES THROUGH CULTURE AND SPORT
• A motivator Empowers People
  Facilitates Learning
• Improves Understanding
  Promotes Cohesion
• Central to
  Quality of Life
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  Recognises Diversity
• Achieves
  Wellbeing

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Sport and Culture in the East Midlands A Growth
Market

• Local authorities invest 100 million per annum
  in sport and active recreation in the East
  Midlands alone (1 billion nationally)
• 212,000 employed in creative and cultural
  industries in the region
• 125 million capital being invested in major arts
  facilities in the East Midlands
• Sport employs 46,000 FTE in the region
• 348 static libraries 50 mobile facilities,
  2,217 public access terminals in the East
  Midlands
• 180 Museums in the region

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• Our Vision

Increase the impact and value of cultural
services to the communities of the East Midlands
by facilitating continuous improvement, effective
delivery and shared service provision
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Objectives

• Develop capacity and shared service in Local
  Government and more effective partnership
  working to deliver a cohesive cultural and sport
  offer in East Midlands
• Raise awareness and sharing best practice of the
  impact of culture and sport in delivering shared
  priorities e.g. LAAs
• Achieve continuous improvement in culture and
  sport services with a focus on poor and weak
  authorities
• Develop effective community leadership and
  advocacy to promote understanding and impact that
  culture and sport has in enhancing quality of
  life of our communities

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Regional Cultural Improvement Programme

• A 3-year programme built around a 0.5 million
  investment in continuous improvement in cultural
  services in local government
• East Midlands Improvement Partnership 250,000
• Sport England East Midlands and Arts Council
  England East Midlands both 100,000
• Culture East Midlands, MLA East Midlands, Arts
  Council, Renaissance and Local Government East
  Midlands all contributing

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Delivery Structure
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Early AchievementsObjective 1 Capacity Building
Baseline Study Social Network Analysis

CIPEM is the most centrally connected grouping
in the East Midlands cultural sector
Wealth of leadership, mentorship and problem
solving ability and potential
CIPEM centralises and distributes information to
supporting members
Key priorities for CIPEM should be to focus upon
increasing collaboration and integration with the
sub regions
Pockets of innovation were revealed and CIPEM
needs to continue to champion this
CIPEM is well positioned, must continue to build
a sustainable approach
WWW.CIPEM.ORG.UK
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Early AchievementsObjective 2 Raising Awareness

• Website Developed
• www.cipem.org.uk
• Regional Event Getting Culture and Sport into
  the New Style LAAs in East Midlands

WWW.CIPEM.ORG.UK
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Early AchievementsObjective 3 Continuous
Improvement

• TAES Peer Reviews - co-ordinated improvement
  planning
• Northants BC Local Government Improvement Board
  Peer Support
• Northants Sub-Region - Piloted Single
  Improvement Tool across all LAs

WWW.CIPEM.ORG.UK
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• Early AchievementsObjective 3 Continuous
  Improvement
• Individual LA improvement plans
• Joint Improvement plan
• Implementation through Cultural Forum making
  partnerships purposeful

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Early AchievementsObjective 4 Community
Leadership

• Cultural Member Induction Programme
• 5 workshops in every sub-region
• Elected Member Briefing Packs
• Disseminated to all L.A.s in Region

WWW.CIPEM.ORG.UK
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CIPEM LAA Events
These events formed part of a proposed regional
programme of activity aimed at supporting
cultural improvement through capacity building,
to help them influence the LAA process
78 of respondents considered the quality range
of information offered to be good
It is clear that the partners who attended this
session found it to be extremely useful
78 of respondents indicated that they had found
the event good
Sub-Regional/Regional Priorities There appears to
be a strong consensus of support needs between
sub-regions
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Sub Regional Action Plans
Nottinghamshire Evidence base on impact of
Culture Sport
Lincolnshire Growing Cultural Networks
Leicestershire Rutland Influencing LAA 3
Cities Growth Influence
Derbyshire Developing Cultural Partnerships
Northamptonshire Member Development Growth
Agenda
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Focus On Practical Support

• Cultural Member Induction Programme
• Member briefing notes
• Cultural Portfolio Leadership Programme
• Piloting Single Cultural Improvement Tool (SIT)
• Develop a Cultural Officer Leadership Programme
• Establish a web based Improvement Tool sharing
  Best Practice

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Outcomes

• Strong sustainable cultural network established
  in Region
• The East Midlands as an exemplar for Cultural
  Services provision
• Greater understanding of cross cutting potential
  of Culture Sport
• Better Cultural Services delivered for less
• More effective political champions for Culture
  and Sport
• Shared learning within region and nationally