Our Focus: The un - met challenge of Neighbourhood Renewal “Harnessing the hundreds of billions of pounds spent by key Government departments, rather than relying on one- off regeneration spending”. National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal 2001

Spotlight – toward a system to deliver transformation and Connecting People 4 underlying assumptions –Scale –Integration –Whole systems of delivery –Community connections

Scale – whatever we do that works, we need to do a lot of it!

Integration is critical to success Source: PMSU/NRU Deprived Areas Review 2004 Concentrations of vulnerable residents Negative peer culture, low social capital Barriers to work for individuals Unpopular neighbourhood in disrepair Strain on liveability Barriers to employers/ investors High worklessness and income poverty Economic development ‘Liveability’ Social capital

UNIVERSAL SERVICES LOCALITY PROVISION ‘WRAP AROUND’ Local engagement and integrated services: ‘Jobshops’ Job Centre Plus Whole systems - shaping cohesive, customer focused delivery Health & Social Care Criminal justice Housing Third Sector

Community connections are the best way in…

We need a system to deliver scale, integration and community connections… Partnerships feel like an add on to the ‘day job’? Public services incentivised by national concerns? Performance measured at city level on many issues? Inflexible ‘one size fits all’ delivery arrangements? Third sector on the fringes? Deprivation as ‘special operations’?

We have tested the model AreaIssueSPOTlight period NDC areaYoung people not in Employment, Education or Training 15 Oct: 19 Nov 2007 Ordsall & Langworthy Safe, Clean, Green29 Oct: 3 Dec 2007 East SalfordWorklessness5 Nov: 10 Dec 2007 Further trialsLone Parents Alcohol Childhood Obesity Transport By June 2008

We have found common problems across issues - Weak local data - Weak analytical capacity - Engagement not influencing delivery enough - Plans not locally specific - Local governance not connected to LSP - Barriers to entry - Patchy evaluation - Weak mainstreaming practice - Fragmentation - Weak cross referral - Lack of incentives to meet local standards - Weak collective action - Instability Understanding needPlanning & deciding Reviewing Delivering THE CUSTOMER JOURNEY

Results: The system is changing - ‘Mainstreaming for Real’ Diversification and choice Worklessness delivery system opened up to 32 ‘new’ providers - Community & Voluntary Sector - Health, Housing Agencies Innovation, Personalisation GP’s incentivised to refer IB patients to employability advisors. Family approach on worklessness Direct payments and personalised budgets in skills and worklessness?

Community Engagement & Accountability Dashboard’ of local safe, clean and green indicators, regular reporting to communities ‘Communities on board’ - social marketing Intensive management arrangements for regeneration areas, aligning incentives between agencies Results: The system is changing - ‘Mainstreaming for Real’ Pace and Urgency Spotlight has given our Partnership go faster and go further stripes!

What’s next? Driving delivery – making this mainstream work Evaluation, further ‘real - time’ tests Make Area Based Grant a new dawn – driving innovation, integration and change in public services Learn more from the Health and Social Care integration and commissioning journey Test the Local Area Agreement with real evidence Hold our nerve - see where momentum can take us!