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Whole Essex Community Budget

Sounding Board13th November 2013

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Time Title/Description Lead12.30 Arrivals

13.00 Welcome Cllr David Finch

13.05 Achievements and Impacts so far• Community Safety• Family Solutions• Economic Growth• Sustainable Communities

Susannah Hancock (PCC)Ian Davidson (Tendring DC)Peter Cook (ECC)Bob Reitemeier (Essex Community Foundation)

13.45 Going Further - Essex in 2020What should communities expect from Public Services in Essex?Discussion

Halima KhanDirector: Nesta Innovation Lab

14.30 Getting us ThereDelivery Plans for 2014/15 and beyond

Joanna Killian

14.35 Public Service Reforms – next steps (1)• Strengthening Communities • Domestic Abuse• Housing• Family Solutions• Social Gateway• Reducing Reoffending

Jasmine Frost (Essex Police)Kevin Nunn(ECC)Glen Chipp (Epping Forest DC)Philippa Bull (ECC)Sue Pottle (DWP)Michael Kay (Essex Probation)

15.05 Refreshment Break / Website Demonstration 15.20 Public Service Reforms – next steps (2)

- Duplicate of session 1

15.50 Next Steps Cllr David Finch

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

COMMUNITY SAFETY – SUSANNAH HANCOCK, PCC

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Domestic Abuse• Basildon & Braintree Domestic Abuse pilot went live in August - 213 victims of domestic abuse

have been supported as of end of Oct ‘13, helping to keep them free from further abuse. • Phase 1 of the Joint Domestic Abuse triage team (JDATT) went live in September by Essex

Police and ECC Children’s Social Care, which has led to more timely and better informed risk assessments

• Securing agreement in principle from EHoG and Refuge providers to develop key principles identified in Safer Accommodation proposal paper.

Benefits achieved so far?Making a conservative assumption that our intervention will lead to just under half of the supported victims becoming free from abuse this will, for example, reduce police intervention and GP visits, which will result in overall benefits of £56,000 per year in respect of the 213 victims being supported so far.

So until 2019/20 this means a saving of £336,000 relating to victims supported so far...The aim is to support 600 victims in the first 12 months and an additional 5400 victims over the next 3 years to achieve the estimated benefits of £6.2m. Investment was secured for the first year but investment for the subsequent years will be required.

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Domestic Abuse

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e6qZV4_pPM

Re-offending• New Ways of Working proposal has been agreed with DWP and will be initially piloted in

Brentwood and Southend for 3 months before wider rollout across Essex• A peer mentoring programme to train ex-offenders has been successfully commissioned -

30 peer mentors trained, 4 of whom will soon be employed by Essex Probation as offender support workers

• A Reducing Reoffending Board together with Joint Commissioning Board Essex Offender Accommodation Forum has been set-up and have begun to identify opportunities where savings may be made and services improved.

• Funding for expansion of link workers for Integrated Offender Management (IOM) scheme has been secured for this FY, which enable us expand the support provided offenders – contract for additional three link workers under negotiation

• Funding for data analyst to develop a performance framework for IOM scheme has been provided by the PCC – recruitment underway.

Benefits delivered so far?• The benefits are not due to be delivered prior to 2015/16.• With Transforming Rehabilitation programme underway more clarity will be required how

the 1% reduction year on year will be achieved.

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Reducing Reoffending

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNvPWrXTEGg

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

HEALTH & WELLBEING – IAN DAVIDSON, TENDRING DC

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Family Solutions• 8 Family Teams working to broader criteria launched October 2013• Early Advice Hub went live in Sept 2013.• Volunteering Mentor programme commissioning process complete - providers identified to

commence activity January 2014• Family Solutions broadcast on BBC 5Live from Harlow office in recognition of the impact of the

work teams are doing with families 30/10/13• Single point of contact for practitioners providing early help advice, guidance and access to Family

Teams

• Co-location of multi-disciplinary staff in the localities providing holistic support to families• Delivering results on the ground - improving school attendance, employment rates and family

relationships• Effective joint-partnership working particularly with DWP Social Justice Advisers• Central data recording system in place capturing information to support families and inform

service developments Benefits delivered so far?Family Solutions has implemented all deliverables to support 1440 families per annum in order to achieve the estimated benefits in total of £41m until 2019/20. First performance figures will be produced after being operational for 6 months.

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Family Solutions

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkZH5NP4X7s

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

ECONOMIC GROWTH – PETER COOK, ECC

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Skills for Growth• Established the employer led Employment and Skills Board (ESB) with a highly credible line up of members. Wider launch

event with employers in December • Evidence base near completion that is establishing the skills needs of the Greater Essex economy, both now and in the

future. Validated by industry peer review and already influencing skills provision and funding decisions.• Skills Investment Fund being established to give local partners the ability to commission training provision according to

local industry need, pump primed by ECC, but with the longer term aim of being supported through the Single Local Growth Fund (SLGF), ESF, private sector match and eventually mainstream funding

• Essex nominated to lead on European Social Fund (ESF) plans on behalf of SELEP, plans validated by the Employment and Skills Board

• On-line portal being developed to encourage business to articulate it’s skills requirements and enable training providers to respond to them

• Considerable involvement and collaboration of local partners in the overall approach, sparked by the Community Budgets process

• Despite intensive engagement the asks of government, particularly around devolution of skills funding, have not been granted and as a result the ESB will need to explore options for how we achieve benefits within current constraints.

Benefits delivered so far?Estimated (non-cashable) benefits of £151m until 2019/20 were based on the assumption of getting the commitment on governance asks. This has not been forthcoming and so these more easily understood benefits will not be secured in the manner originally intended. Significant benefits will be realised through all of the above but we will only be able to be quantify once we are in the position of more fully understanding what the evidence base is telling us, determining more precisely how the Skills Investment Fund might best be used against this, “proving the concept” of the on-line portal and being certain of the actual influence we have locally over SLGF and ESF.

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KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

ENABLERS – BOB REITEMEIER, ESSEX COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

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Strengthening Communities• 4 Community Builder trial areas launched (Southend, Harlow, Tendering & Braintree).

The first two quarterly network meetings were successfully held in August and November.

• Additional Community Builders being led by Essex County Fire & Rescue and Basildon Council

• Timebanking (volunteering scheme) rollout across North and West Essex by Colchester CVS – increased volunteering hours

• VCS strategy developed with partners and now at public consultation• Community Resilience Fund in development• Essex citizens trained on Asset Based Community Development as part of the WECB • Volunteering research into young people completed – outcome will feed in the

development of the proposals within the Strengthening Communities business case.Benefits delivered so far?The proposal document approved in March 2013 didn’t specify financial benefits. The current community builder trials and time banking rollout will provide first performance data over the next 12 months – first data will feed into the full business case due in March/April 2014.

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Strengthening Communities

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GOING FURTHER – ESSEX 2020

Halima Khan, DIRECTOR OF NESTA INNOVATION LAB

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GETTING US THERE

Joanna Killian, CHIEF EXECUTIVE ECC

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Public Service Reform – what next?

A more integrated Whitehall

More cross-departmental objectives in government business plans

Double-lock funding

Incentivising departments to work in partnership

Outcome focused spending

A percentage of national public spending to be allocated locally on the basis of outcomes rather than through departments

Place based settlements

Multi-annual funding arrangements for local public services based on CSR periods

Local spending reviews

A local Treasury managing public spending in a place against outcomes agreed locally and nationally

A new model of accountability

A new model of accountability for locally elected leaders overseeing a budget for each place agreed through Parliament

‘Getting us there – 14/15’

• Continuation of collaborative working with partners to deliver our shared projects

• Keeping focused to deliver financial & non-financial benefits

• Support and commitment required from partners to secure the delivery of projects within WECB

• Resource requirements – will not only be cash, also people ‘in kind’

• Continued collaboration with central Government and pressure to deliver our ‘asks’

• Agreeing partners’ vision for on-going Public Service Reforms

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Break-out Sessions

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Break Out Sessions Lead

Domestic Abuse

Updated business case including supporting business cases:Health Pilot, Perpetrator Scheme, Safer Accommodation and Support Services

Kevin Nunn, Chelmer Hall

Reducing Reoffending

Increase understanding of the Reducing Reoffending Business project and implications from Transforming Rehabilitation.

Michael Kay, Upper Hall

Family Solutions

Overview of FS from business case to delivery- understanding the processes, procedures, activities and benefits of the Family Solutions Service.

Lise Bird, Horizon Suite

Strengthening Communities

New SC business case and outline of supporting business cases: Community Builders, Timebanking, Carebanking and volunteering

Jasmine Frost,Chelmer Hall

Housing

Areas under consideration for new business case, exploring how partner’s can achieve their housing objectives by working together on housing and public sector land.

Glen Chipp, Chelmer Hall

‘Social Gateway’

Exploring the idea to create an online platform as the ‘go to’ place for people and practitioners in Essex looking for a single source of public service information, consider scope and next steps.

Sue Pottle, Upper Hall

Break-out Sessions

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In here (Chelmer Hall) Upstairs (Upper Hall)

Upstairs (Horizon Suite)

• Reducing Domestic Abuse

• Housing

• Strengthening Communities

• Reducing Reoffending

• Social Gateway

• Family Solutions

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Dates ActivityNovember & December 2013

Engagement with partners to review business cases and delivery plans including resource requirements for FY 14/15

December 2013 – January 2014

Approval of business cases & delivery plans by responsible project/programme board

18th Dec 2013 Essex Partnership BoardJanuary - February 2014 Formal approval of resources by sovereign

partners18th Feb 2014 Essex Partnership BoardEnd March 2014 Mobilisation of resources for 14/15 delivery

Halima KhanDirector, Innovation Lab

November 2013

Who is Nesta?

Nesta is an independent charity with a mission to help people and organisations bring great ideas to life.

We do this by combining:

Programmes and funds

Investments

Research and policy

Innovation skills Centre for Social ActionInnovation Fund

Public services reform: what next?

• Innovating under conditions of austerity

• Demographics and expectations

• “Initiative-itus”

• Combining community and state resources

• Trust in the face of change

Key challenges

• People powered public (services)

• Partnerships towards integration

• Commissioning for outcomes

• Market making

• New citizen – state contract

Key opportunities

• Provider

• Commissioner

• Convenor

• Campaigner

• Steward

• Mobiliser

Different modes of operating

Reading Borough Council

Early years centres

Such as…

Lambeth mental health services

Alliance contracting

Derbyshire council

Corporate parenting

Essex

Who Will Care?

Innovating systems

PRODUCT AND SERVICE

INNOVATION

MARKET INNOVATION

POLITICAL INNOVATION

CULTURAL INNOVATION

Health for people, by people and with people

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PRODUCT AND SERVICE

INNOVATION

MARKET INNOVATION

POLITICAL INNOVATION

CULTURAL INNOVATION

Public service innovation

• Current vs future cohorts

• Real lives

• Strengths not just needs

Reflections – ‘who’

• Challenge your assumptions

• Solution may not be a service

• Products vs services vs culture vs policy

Reflections – ‘what’

• Mobilising to achieve change

• Design with people not for them

• Experimentation – with a clear route to scale

• Decommission strategically

• Slow and fast

Reflections – ‘how’

• Resilience

• Leadership

• Risk-taking

• Effective decision-making

Reflections – ‘how’

Match ideas with great potential to sources of investment, new business models and the people who can make them work

Halima Khan

halima.khan@nesta.org.uk@halima_khan1