Transcript The Ward Committee Budget

No Wrong Doors
13th June 2011
How families can influence
their neighbourhoods in the
context of the Area Based
Working Pilot
Kay Bailey & Elizabeth Mower & Carolyn Perry
Neighbourhood Management Unit
2.05 – 2.15
Presentation – area based working
2.15 – 2.35
How families can get involved & have a
voice
Exercise: Definition Dominoes
2.35 – 3.00
Exercise: Do you know who your
partners are?
3.00 - 3.10
Feedback from each group
Any Questions?
Area based working pilot –
the structure
LSP Board
Acomb
Executive
Transformation Board
Dringhouses &
Woodthorpe
Rural West
Project Team
Holgate
Ward
Partnership
Westfield
Ward
Partnership
Ward
Partnership
Ward
Partnership
Micklegate
Ward
Partnership
Task Group
Task Group
Ward
Partnership
The role of the Neighbourhood
Management Unit
Empower communities – by:
•Developing ward agreements
•affect service improvement by holding CYC to account for the services they
receive
•Providing them with the tools to commission new services and solutions
Enable communities – by:
•Providing the skills they need, brokering training opportunities, promoting
volunteering and linking people to the right opportunities.
•Helping existing providers eg Parish Councils to maximise their potential
The Role of Neighbourhood
Management Unit
Include all residents who want to be involved
– by:
•Combining demographic data with local intelligence
•to engage those communities that are marginalised
•to work with them in partnership to ensure appropriate access to services
Help communities increase their sense of belonging – by:
•Supporting existing organisations eg community centres and resident associations to
widen the services they offer and encourage greater involvement
•Encouraging local ownership of actions and ambitions.
•Supporting partners and communities to recognise and address community tensions
using the community conversations network and mediation service.
What’s happened
so far?
Progress
•Priorities agreed by ward and task group meeting to agree actions
•Example 1 Change Champions
•Example 2 Benefit take up
• Ward Audits are being worked on
• Approx 45 different partner organisations are already involved in
the process and others being identified. Eg Age UK, NHS, FIS,
Libraries, YorkLink, CVS
•Community based surgeries (“Chat2Us”)
•Neighbourhood Management Officers working out of local venues
•Community Engagement Assistant working at CVS to broker
volunteering opportunities
opportunities
Opportunities
for CYC & other
service
deliverers:
Opportunities
for families?
• Reduce duplication
• having a voice
• Focus resources
• being part of a community
• Share resources
• being listened to
• For local communities more
responsibility
• taking part in the process of
allocating ward budgets
• Service providers more
accountable.
The Neighbourhood Management
Team
“we look forward to working with you”
Kate Bowers
Sally Barker
Mora Scaife
Julie Hood
Cindy Benton Kristina Davey Kay Bailey
Toby Knight
Carolyn Perry
Claire Taylor
Adam Gray
Matthew Ward
Michal Czekajlo Michael Hawtin Jackie Jackson Lizzie Mower Ted Schofield
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