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NEIGHBOURHOOD RENEWAL
THE CHALLENGE OF DELIVERY
Jon BrightHead of ImplementationNeighbourhood Renewal UnitOffice of the Deputy Prime Minister
Tel: 0207 944 3784Email: [email protected]: www.neighbourhood.gov.uk
NEIGHBOURHOOD RENEWAL THE CHALLENGE OF DELIVERY
Two long term goals:
• lower worklessness and crime, better health, skills, housing and the physical environment
• narrow the gap between the most deprived areas and the rest
NEIGHBOURHOOD RENEWAL THE CHALLENGE OF DELIVERY
What’s gone wrong before………..
• Lack of Government attention to poor neighbourhoods
• Lack of community engagement
• Weakness of regeneration/ partnership work:
- lack of engagement by service providers
- failure to do “what works”
- no link between problems - actions - results
- poor design and implementation of plans
• Skills and knowledge shortage
• Failure to deliver results quickly
NEIGHBOURHOOD RENEWAL THE CHALLENGE OF DELIVERY
• Departments set “floor” targets, agree delivery plans and ask local agencies to deliver targets and support NR
• Neighbourhood Renewal Fund allocated to 88 most deprived LA districts. 26 to receive extra £175m in 04/05
• Government Offices promote Departments’ plans, support LSPs and oversee local NR strategies
• LSPs appoint delivery team, co-ordinate delivery of NR strategy and work with community networks
• Local thematic partnerships work closely with LSPs
• Neighbourhood / ward partnerships prepare Action Plans
Government Departments(Floor Targets)
NeighbourhoodRenewal Unit
Government Offices
Local Strategic Partnership
LSP Delivery Team
Neighbourhood PartnershipsNeighbourhood Action Plans
Neighbourhood Co-ordinators / Managers
Local Service Providers e.g. Police,
LAs, schools
Neighbourhood RenewalStrategy
(floor & other NR targets)
Community Networks
NEIGHBOURHOOD RENEWAL
• In the past, regeneration involved a modest amount of money for a small number of areas for a limited period of time. Often, it helped shore up poor public services.
• The Neighbourhood Renewal Strategy aims to improve the performance of public services so a lasting improvement is made in all disadvantaged neighbourhoods
Key principle: “Mainstreaming” Neighbourhood Renewal Fund
2%
Mainstream LA Funding 98%
NEIGHBOURHOOD RENEWAL
“Mainstreaming” involves changes to
• policies
• resource allocation
• how services are provided
• how services are accessed
• target setting
So services in poor neighbourhoods are improved, animpact made on problems and the gap between the worstand average narrowed.
NEIGHBOURHOOD RENEWAL THE CHALLENGE OF DELIVERY
Mainstreaming - examples
Topic Location Result
Maternal health Castle Vale, Birmingham Reduction in child deaths
Policing High crime neighbourhoods, Reduction in crime and fear West Midlands of crime
Jobs In 88 areas: outreach JCP More support for unemployed. staff in priority neighbourhoods Reduced worklessness
Environment Bristol: street services Improved services. Fewerre-engineered. Southampton abandoned cars. More operation clean sweep in frequent refuse collection.priority zones Cleaner environment
NEIGHBOURHOOD RENEWAL THE CHALLENGE OF DELIVERY
• Government - strengthen departments’ support for NR
• LSPs - introduce performance management
• LSPs - include national and local targets in NR strategies
• LSPs - create delivery team
• LSPs - think about Neighbourhood Management
• LSPs - prioritise liveability: clean, safe & well managed
• LSPs - build capacity: analytic, planning, delivery
• LSPs and Community Networks - work up protocols
• Communities - set up neighbourhood partnerships / boards
• Communities - hold service providers to account
NEIGHBOURHOOD RENEWAL THE CHALLENGE OF DELIVERY
LSPs - Performance Management
2001 / 2003 : setting up and preparing strategies
2003 : move to implementation and performance management
Performance management will enable LSPs to:- monitor delivery of floor and local targets
- assess plausibility of strategies
- engage in improvement planning
- hold partner organisations to account
LSPs use own system or adopt NRU model
Complete performance review by April 04
NEIGHBOURHOOD RENEWAL THE CHALLENGE OF DELIVERY
Neighbourhood Management
• Identify priority neighbourhoods
• Secure support of service deliverers
• Use NRF as incentive / performance reward fund
• Mesh floor, LPSA and local targets
• Create Neighbourhood Management Board
• Appoint neighbourhood manager / delivery agent
• Prepare neighbourhood plan
• Focus on “clean, safe, well managed”
• Neighbourhood Wardens often crucial
• Youth provision often crucial
NEIGHBOURHOOD RENEWAL THE CHALLENGE OF DELIVERY
Tools for the job:
Delivery toolkit
Neighbourhood statistics
Renewal.net
Neighbourhood Renewal Advisors
Analytic capacity
Skills programme
Floor target interactive website
Support from Government Offices and NRU
