Bolton at Home Neighbourhood Management Role

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Bolton at Home Neighbourhood Management Role

• REGENERATION DIRECTORATE

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BHs NEIGHBOURHOOD MANAGEMENT ROLE

• 4 x Neighbourhood Managers
• BH North Neighbourhood Manager
• BH East neighbourhood Manager
• BH West Neighbourhood Manager
• BH South Neighbourhood Manager
• Operating in 4 x BH Regeneration Areas

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BHs NEIGHBOURHOOD MANAGEMENT ROLE
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BHs NEIGHBOURHOOD MANAGEMENT ROLE

• Each BH Neighbourhood Manager has two hats
• Narrow the Gap between disadvantaged areas (11 in
  total) and the rest of the borough e.g. Tonge
  with the Haulgh Area
• Lead the implementation of the Transforming
  Estates Programme - e.g BH North Regeneration
  Area inc.
• -Tonge with the Haulgh
• -Crompton
• -Halliwell
• -Astley Bridge
• -Bromley Cross

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BHs NEIGHBOURHOOD MANAGEMENT ROLE
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BHs NEIGHBOURHOOD MANAGEMENT ROLE NARROW THE
GAP.WHAT IS THE GAP????

• CASE 1
• Shirley Webster mother aged 54yrs
• 2 sons Sean Webster 15yrs and Simon Webster
  14yrs, 1 daughter Kayleigh Baker 12yrs,
• Ex partner Dave Baker still resides in family
  home
• Sean has had increasingly sporadic attendance at
  school, numerous periods of exclusion, now on
  reduced timetable and been through various
  specialist arrangements, Sean is supervised by
  YOT increasingly disaffected education
  system has no further options to offer - at
  16yrs Sean will pass over to NEET system
• Simon still at present in main stream school,
  however, is now on ABC, his name is increasingly
  being mentioned in ASB on the estate Simon has
  YISP caseworker
• Kayleigh has persistently truanted in years 7 and
  8, exhibits very challenging behaviour, cant
  follow rules, there have been complaints of her
  bullying another child, poor at making friends
  enjoys adult attention
• Mother Shirley has 2 older children from a
  previous relationship a son 34yrs and daughter
  30yrs and has been on benefits continuously
  since 1973
• Mother Shirley admits she has difficulties
  controlling her children and wants to help has
  been referred to parenting support session but
  only attended once
• Sean and Simons father lives around the corner

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BHs NEIGHBOURHOOD MANAGEMENT ROLE NARROW THE
GAP.WHAT IS THE GAP????

• CASE 2
• Gregory Phillips 13yrs has recently been excluded
  from school and has reading and writing
  difficulties
• Gregory is clinically obese
• Gregorys mum Denise has disclosed that she
  cannot read or write, Denise is suffering from
  depression and has a drink dependency for which
  she is receiving some support
• The Phillips have been the subject of verbal
  abuse from other residents in the area
• CASE 3
• Jennifer and Gareth Thompson have 3 children all
  teenagers there is a history of domestic
  violence
• Father Gareth Thompson receives Incapacity
  benefit due to a work related back injury
• Jennifer volunteers in the local charity shop 10
  hours a week
• Jennifers son Calvin has a YISP worker and is
  responding to positive intervention, Calvins
  close friend committed suicide last year Calvin
  needs bereavement counselling
• Mr Mrs Thompson have been referred to PPP
• Jennifer provides care for her mother who lives
  on the estate

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BHs NEIGHBOURHOOD MANAGEMENT ROLEAREA PROFILE

• Health
• Life Expectancy as low as 72.8 yrs (Bolton
  76.7yrs)
• Smoking high 41.2 (Bolton 23)
• 48 of residents aged 44 and under suffer from
  depression, 32 have asthma
• Achieving
• Foundation Stage (age 5) 44 (Bolton 53)
• KS2 English Maths (age 11) - 55 (Bolton 71)
• GCSE (age 16) -5 (Bolton 40)
• Prosperous
• 34.7 of the working age population are claiming
  benefits (Bolton 18.1)
• 16.9 are Claiming Incapacity Benefit (Bolton
  10)
• 28.6 find it hard to manage financially (Bolton
  10.90

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BHs NEIGHBOURHOOD MANAGEMENT ROLEAREA PROFILE

• Safe
• High number of neighbour disputes in some areas
• High no. of woundings
• Adults in drug treatment is 1.69 (Bolton 0.85)
• Cleaner Greener
• Environmental assessment scores show that 31 of
  sites fail to meet satisfactory standards for
  Litter Detritus (Bolton 19) and 22 for
  Graffiti (Bolton 15)
• Strong Confident
• High percentage of residents who feel that the
  area has a reputation problem at 54.1 (Bolton
  7)
• Fewer volunteers are registered ).89 (Bolton
  1.35)

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NARROW THE GAPTHE NEIGHBOURHOOD MANAGEMENT
APPROACH

• Partnership Approach Tonge with the Haulgh
  Partnership Group
• Agencies e.g. PCT, GMP, Schools, Childrens
  Centres, Housing, Environment etc
• Local people
• Elected Members
• Third sector reps e.g. voluntary community
  group reps, church reps

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NARROW THE GAPTHE NEIGHBOURHOOD MANAGEMENT
APPROACH

• Task is to Narrow The Gap across the six key
  themes of
• Healthy
• Achieving
• Prosperous
• Safer
• Cleaner Greener
• Stronger
• Intelligence led statistical and local
• Develop Tonge with the Haulgh Neighbourhood
  Action Plan - NAP

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NARROW THE GAPTHE NEIGHBOURHOOD MANAGEMENT
APPROACH

• The NAP will
• Identify the priority issues in the area
• Identify existing activity to address those
  issues
• Identify gaps in activity and develop activity to
  plug those gaps
• Identify and measure the outcomes expected from
  the activity aimed at addressing each priority
  issue

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NARROW THE GAPTHE NEIGHBOURHOOD MANAGEMENT
APPROACH

• Development of Neighbourhood Management Work
• Mostly thematic
• - joining up / working issues through with
  existing groups / structures/ mechanisms e.g.
  Police LAP meetings, Integrated Youth Service
  Area Planning meetings, Every Child Matters
  partnerships etc
• - establishing task finish groups where no
  established group exists e.g. Health group
• Some non-thematic work e.g. Union Road

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NARROW THE GAPTHE NEIGHBOURHOOD MANAGEMENT
APPROACH

• Development of Neighbourhood Management Work
• i) Joining up use of facilities
• ii) UCANs, Childrens Centres, Schools, Youth
  Centres, Libraries, Health centres etc etc

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NARROW THE GAPTHE NEIGHBOURHOOD MANAGEMENT
APPROACH

• Community Consultation and Engagement
• Underpinning all activity
• Understanding and using all the different kinds
  of consultation and engagement going on across
  the agencies
• Identifying gaps in consultation / engagement
  developing plans to plug the gaps
• Annual programme of area wide, planned
  consultation, engagement and feedback

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NARROW THE GAPTHE NEIGHBOURHOOD MANAGEMENT
APPROACH

• Actions that achieve outcomes
• Prioritisation, Prioritisation, Prioritisation
• Performance management approach Area based
  targets
• Challenging existing service provision
• Negotiating different approaches to service
  delivery

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AND FINALLY

• Any Questions..?

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