Transcript Annual report 2013–14

annual
report
2013/14
review
of the year
may
Lewisham celebrated the
achievement of over 50
apprentices who have
completed their
Apprenticeship Framework
july
the High Court ruled that
the Secretary of State for
Health acted illegally when
he approved a reduction in
the services offered at
Lewisham Hospital
Lewisham Peoples Day
celebrated its 30th year
june
the Glass Mill Leisure
Centre opened to the
public
 the refurbishment of
Catford Broadway
commenced
august
Lewisham once again won 13
‘Green Flag’ awards for its parks
Lewisham pupils achieved
record A-Level and GCSE results
a year of highlights 2013/14
september
october
Lee Manor Primary
School was judged
‘outstanding’ by Ofsted
following and inspection
Lewisham school pupils elected
Emmanuel Olaniyan as the 10th Young
Mayor of Lewisham
Lewisham won an appeal in the High
Court preventing the Government from
closing services at Lewisham Hospital
december
Ladywell Early Childhood Centre was judged
‘outstanding’ by Ofsted following an inspection
Beechcroft Garden Primary School was judged
‘outstanding’ by Ofsted following an inspection
a year of highlights 2013/14
march
eight of the most outstanding apprentices,
mentors, managers and teams were presented with
awards as part of the Apprenticeships Awards
ceremony at the Broadway Theatre in Catford
Doreen Lawrence was awarded the Freedom of
Lewisham borough. Mrs Lawrence is one of only 11
people to have been honoured in this way
a year of highlights 2013/4
Lewisham
overview
£1.3bn
318,000
Lewisham’s projected population by the time of the 2021 Census
gross public spending in Lewisham across
various public agencies
2,745
total headcount of
Lewisham council
employees
286,180
Lewisham’s population in 2013
40
some
40,000
pupils
attend
Lewisham
schools
60%
of Lewisham’s
workforce are
employed across
London and
beyond
an overview in numbers
25
25% of
Lewisham
residents are
children &
young
people aged
0 to 19
27
Lewisham residents
comprise people from 27
countries and five continents
“These are things that Lewisham Council along
with its partner organisations, large and small
must do something about: intervening in the
local housing market; creating opportunities for
those seeking employment to enhance their
skills and experience and using the power of the
council as a service provider to create growth in
the local economy. At the same time we have to
make huge reductions in the Council’s budget.”
- Sir Steve Bullock, Mayor of Lewisham
“I really want to hear about what youths want
and how I can help. Before winning the title
of Young Mayor of Lewisham, I went around
asking people in Lewisham what they would
do if they were the Young Mayor of
Lewisham for the day and how they would
improve the borough they live in. This gave
me a real idea of what they wanted their
borough to be like”.
-Emmanual Olaniyan, the 10th Young
Mayor or Lewisham
….and in quotes
“The proportion of pupils making and
exceeding expected progress by the
end of Year 6 is high, compared with
national figures. By the time pupils
leave, they are exceptionally well
prepared for their time in secondary
school.”
-Quote from Ofsted inspection report
which judged Lee Manor Primary
School as ‘outstanding’
“This is an incredible day. We are
delighted for every single person who has
supported the campaign and those who
will now continue to benefit from this
extraordinary hospital. The support from
thousands of people in Lewisham is a very
real demonstration of the Big Society”.
-Dr Louise Irvine, Chair of the Save
Lewisham Hospital campaign
key
achievements
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Lewisham has continued to demonstrate the value it places on partnership with the voluntary
sector. Lewisham has retained a grant aid budget of £5.2m;
the council continued resident involvement in the local assemblies programme, with local people
agreeing local priorities and working with the council to take action to improve their areas:
 average attendances per assembly meeting are above target at 87; and
 92 per cent of attendees felt that they understood more about local issues following their
attendance at a Local Assembly meeting.
older residents continue to participate in the Positive Ageing Council, giving their views on how to
reduce isolation and work with local services to influence change. A total of 387 older residents
attended Positive Ageing Council events and meetings.
community leadership and
empowerment
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we have improved health outcomes for our most vulnerable children and young people. Over the
course of 2013/14 (through coordinated action between Lewisham council and Lewisham and
Greenwich NHS Trust) the percentage of Looked After Children who completed an Initial Health
Assessment within 28 days has steadily improved to the point where we are regularly reporting
100 per cent success;
Lewisham has pioneered a system of Payment by Results for our Children’s Centre and Targeted
Family Support Services. Created in order to drive an improvement in outcomes for our children,
young people and families, the measures were developed in partnership with practitioners and
providers across the Council, Health and voluntary & community sector;
Children’s Centres identified and worked with more than double the number of families with a
targeted need from July 2013 to March 2014 compared to the same period in 2012/13. In addition,
for the same period, the average performance of a Children’s Centre against its ‘reach’ target
more than doubled in 2013/14 as compared to 2012/13;
as part of the Government’s Troubled Families programme Lewisham has ‘turned around’ more
families than most of the local authorities in London to date, enabling the council to claim under
the Payment by Results scheme;
Lewisham has been one of 31 SEND pathfinders supporting the development of the Education
Health and Care Plan (EHCP) process which will replace the Statement of Educational Need.
The Pathfinder programme ended on the 31st March 2014. During the last year the Pathfinder
has continued to work in partnership with families to refine the EHCP process, increasing the
numbers of families who have applied for an EHCP and informing the path of national legislation.
the Young Mayor’s scheme has gone from strength to strength. More eligible young people voted
in the most recent Young Mayor elections. Lewisham’s Young Citizen’s Panel now has 560
members able to contribute to the local decision making;
the majority of Lewisham’s primary schools are rated outstanding or good by OfSTED. There has
been a focus on Level 5+ at Key Stage 2, particularly for those pupils eligible for Pupil Premium.
young peoples achievement
and involvement
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Lewisham worked with partners and stakeholders to obtain 13 prestigious ‘green flag awards’ and
four ‘community green flag awards’;
the council secured just over £500,000 of external funding for improving open spaces across the
borough;
the council delivered a Mayor of London funded new tree planting project that saw the planting of
58 new trees in areas of low leaf cover in the borough;
the council achieved 100 per cent of all graffiti job removals within one day;
significant progress was made towards the start of construction on Lewisham Gateway which will
be the single largest development within Lewisham town centre. The scheme involves the removal
of the roundabout opposite Lewisham's railway and DLR stations, to be replaced by a new road
layout and a new development which will make it easier for pedestrians to get back and forth from
the stations to the town centre. When complete, Lewisham Gateway will include:
 shops, restaurants, bars and cafes
 leisure facilities
 up to 800 homes
 Confluence Place, a park where the Ravensbourne and Quaggy rivers meet
 a town square opposite St Stephen's Church.
clean, green and liveable
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there has been a 49 per cent decrease in first time entrants to the criminal justice system since
2009/10;
the Triage initiative has helped divert low level offenders from receiving a criminal conviction and
has reduced the number of young people coming in to the service;
the actual number of young people entering the youth justice system remains in decline at a rate of
22 per cent;
this year’s baseline custody data shows a significant decline in use of custody compared with last
year. The rate per 1000 of the 10-17 population was 3.36 and this has reduced to 1.27;
an ongoing Home Office peer review on ending gang and youth violence identified 12 key
strengths in Lewisham. The review will assist the Council to ensure that partnerships have
effective structures and responses in place to address gang and youth violence locally;
a new Serious Youth Violence team is in place funded by the London Mayor’s Office Policing and
Crime. The project averages 70 plus high risk referrals a year and represents excellent value for
money. The cost of supporting a young person taken through the Young Victims’ Multi Agency Risk
Assessment Conference (MARAC) process is around £1,700. When compared to the £18,000 that
each incident of serious wounding costs the criminal justice system and health services. Over the
duration of the project's existence Serious Youth Violence and knife crime have fallen by over a
third;
Lewisham has seen a significant 8 per cent reduction in residential burglary, from 2,460 offences in
2012/13 to 2,262 offences in 2013/14.
safety, security and visible
presence
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made strong links with Lambeth and Southwark on economic growth, employment and jobs
through the three-borough ‘Community Budgets’ project;
implemented Youth Task Force employment projects principally getting 12 (out of 22) young
people with learning difficulties or disabilities into employment;
launched the Employability Passport - evidence that a young person demonstrates employability
skills and it is endorsed by the Department for Work & Pensions and employers
supported more than 100 apprentices;
performance on both ‘major’ and ‘minor’ planning applications for the year ending 2013 was in the
top quartile in London;
developed the Council’s Business Growth Strategy for 2013 to 2023 which sets out how the
Council will make Lewisham one of the fastest growing economies in London
the council’s Business Advisory Service and Local Labour & Business Scheme programmes
helped:
 32 businesses to start up
 48 businesses to be ‘fit to supply’
 SMEs to secure over £1.36m of new work
 to create 140 jobs, 15 apprenticeships, nine work placements and 198 training places
strengthening the local
economy
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started the first council homes building programme in 30 years with six new homes built on the
site at Mercator Road in February 2013, with a further 98 homes on five sites located throughout
the borough agreed in principle by Mayor & Cabinet;
secured over £95m from the Government to improve Lewisham’s housing stock over the next few
years;
successfully attracted nearly £5m worth of funding for 2 extra care schemes in Lewisham;
the council modernised well over 1,000 homes;
secured £155k funding for our Rogue Landlord project from Department for Communities & Local
Government and Public Health to make it more difficult for rogue or criminal landlords to operate
in Lewisham, resulting in successfully obtaining a Rent Repayment Order of over £40,000 against
a rogue landlord.
decent homes for all
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the Single Assessment process, introduced in 2013 is working well with 100 per cent of cases
completed within 45 days. All Child Protection reviews are completed on time, (outperforming
London and England). Our strong performance in reducing repeat referrals means that the
interventions that are put in place are working – avoiding the ‘revolving door’ for our most
vulnerable children and young people;
the Partnership is improving its capacity to identify those families most at risk of being in crisis. A
wider variety of organisations are now using the Common Assessment Framework (CAF) to
identify issues and the appropriate support, with more CAFs brought to the attention of the
Council’s Early Intervention Service;
the Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC) has seen an increase in referrals from
Children Social Care when compared to this time last year indicating an increased expertise of
Children’s Social Care staff in recognising the signs and referring the high risk cases onwards;
the Metropolitan Police are working successfully with our schools to make sure that all children in
the borough feel safe and supported. From June 2013, every school in the borough has had
access to a named School Police Officer to support them and their pupils;
improvements have continued in Early Years and at Key Stage 2 where outcomes benchmark
favourably against national and statistical neighbours.
protection of children
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the percentage of people using social care who receive self directed support has increased to
69.4 per cent;
four neighbourhood multi-disciplinary teams have been established who work closely with GP’s to
support people to remain living in their own homes;
enablement services are providing rehabilitative support to 100 people per month;
some 4,500 service users are supported by the council’s assistive technology scheme, which
allows adults to live more independently. A total of 180 people are benefitting from stand alone
equipment;
the council has established the Community Connections programme through the Investment
Fund. The support offered includes leisure, personal support, services for carers, work and
voluntary support, transport, advice and support and health and wellbeing. The programme has
managed 155 referrals from social workers and health. professionals in the first 5 months of
operation;
Lewisham has taken part in a national safeguarding pilot and Lewisham’s work has been identified
by the national scheme as a model of best practice.
caring for adults and older
people
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during 2013/14 Lewisham was successful at the London Youth Games winning the following
events: Boccia, Boys Football and Inclusive Zone Basketball;
visits at Lewisham libraries have increased by an average of 30 per cent per month in the year to
date. Customer satisfaction levels have significantly increased;
following the recent OfSTED inspection Community Education Lewisham’s overall rating moved
from Satisfactory to Good;
the award winning Glass Mill leisure centre opened in Lewisham, and Wavelengths Leisure
Centre in Deptford underwent a major refurbishment. Participation is up 29 per cent with over
359,000 recorded visits in Fusion Leisure’s Lewisham centres;
an improved range of free weight management programmes and support is now available for both
children and adults such as Weight Watchers and Shape-Up and New Mum New You, Mend and
Boost. In 2013/14 over 360 children and their families and 1460 adults accessed the services;
the UNICEF Baby Friendly community stage 2 award was achieved in February 2014;
number of NHS health checks offered is 18,543. The percentage uptake has gone up to 42 per
cent from 36.7 per cent in 2011/12;
actions to reduce the prevalence of smoking in 2013/14 resulted in approximately 1,800 people
quitting smoking in 2013/14;
the largest haul of illicit tobacco in UK in 2013/14 was seized in Lewisham (half a ton of hand
rolling tobacco and more than 15,000 cigarettes);
Public Health have trained more than 20 peer educators on tobacco in 5 schools and reached
more than 1,000 12/13 year olds.
active, healthy citizens
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the council maintained Lewisham’s top quartile performance to ensure that residents in receipt of
benefits receive amongst the best service in London;
Lewisham has increased Council Tax collection year on year with an additional £8m collected in
2103/14;
created a self-financing Investigation and Collection Team whose work has secured £1.2m in
unpaid Council Tax;
won legal challenges to overturn the Secretary of State’s decision to downgrade Lewisham
Hospital;
supported channel shift by increasing the number of subscribers to electronic Lewisham life by
228 per cent;
delivered measured outcomes for Troubled Families –turned around 43 per cent (390 families) of
our overall cohort (910 families). We were 8th in London and 27th in the country;
advanced preparations for Individual Electoral Registration (IER) in the borough including a
successful ‘dry run’ exercise;
Lewisham was the only London borough out of 12 local authorities selected as a pilot to test the
role local authorities may play in the face to face delivery of Universal Credit. The learning that
was gained from testing the model has been fed back to the DWP and will be used to determine
the role local authorities would play in supporting residents with the transition to Universal Credit;
over the year the council supported 94 households and moved 45 households by mitigating
against the impacts of welfare reform.
inspiring efficiency,
effectiveness and equity
governance and
management
mayor and cabinet
the mayor
•is elected by the
whole borough to lead
and speak up for the
whole borough;
• chooses up to nine
councillors to form the
cabinet with specific
areas of responsibility;
•sets out major decisions
to be taken in a Forward
Plan published monthly;
•proposes budget and
key policy proposals to
council;
•takes decisions to
implement policy
within agreed policy
framework;
•considers
recommendations for
actions with officer
advice
the cabinet
•provide advice to
the mayor;
•jointly with the mayor
take decisions relating
to contracts
council
•consists of 54 elected councillors, three for each of the 18 wards
•appoints the overview & scrutiny committee and other committees
•approves the policy framework and budget
regulatory
committees
overview and scrutiny
•meets at least once a year and is ultimately responsible for overview
and scrutiny;
• delegates work to other scrutiny bodies - six select committees, two
business panels, all of which are formally sub committees of overview
and scrutiny;
•the business panel co-ordinates the work programmes of select
committees;
•the six select committees draw up work programmes each year to
hold the Mayor and senior officers to account for decisions; check
performance; examine issues in depth and make recommendations
for policy development;
•responsibility for scrutinising health services and health issues with the
healthier communities select committee, which makes suggestions to
the local health trusts for action and improvements;
•the safer stronger communities select committee has responsibility
for fulfilling the overview and scrutiny functions in relation to crime
reduction and equality of opportunity;
healthier
communities
select
committee
public accounts
select
committee
safer stronger
communities
select
committee
licensing (x2). These
committees are
responsible for all
entertainment
licensing and the
provision of late night
refreshment.
planning (x4). The
planning committees
consider planning
matters across the
whole borough. The
Strategic Committee
only considers
strategic regeneration
proposals.
other committees
audit panel
appointments
elections
health & safety
pensions investment
business panel
children &
young people
select
committee
statutory committees
standards committee
health & well being
board
sustainable
development
select
committee
housing
select
committee
working parties
constitution working
party
cllr Alan Smith
cllr Joan Millbank
cllr Rachael Onikosi
deputy mayor & cabinet
member for growth regeneration
cabinet member for
the third sector
cabinet member for
public realm
Sir Steve Bullock (Lab)
mayor of Lewisham
mayor
and cabinet
cllr Damien Egan
cllr Janet Daby
cllr Chris Best
cabinet member for
customer services
cabinet member for
community safety
cabinet member for
community services
cllr Paul Maslin
cllr Joe Dromey
cllr Kevin Bonavia
cabinet member for
children & young people
cabinet member for
policy & performance
cabinet member for
resources
cllr Alan Hall
(Lab); chair
overview &
scrutiny business
panel
cllr Obajimi
Adefiranye
(Lab)
chair of
council
council
cllr John
Paschoud
(Lab); chair
children &
young people
select
committee
cllr John
cllr Jamie
Muldoon
Milne (Lab);
(Lab); chair chair public
healthier
accounts
communities
select
select
committee
committee
cllr Gareth
Siddorn
(Lab);
vice chair
cllr Pauline
Morrison
(Lab); chair
safer, stronger
communities
select
committee
cllr Liam
cllr Carl
Curran (Lab); Handley
chair
(Lab); chair
sustainable
housing
development
select
select
committee
committee
overview & scrutiny
business panel
workforce
gender
The
council
employs about
2,745 full-time
staff
38.5 per cent
of council
employees
are male
ethnicity
age
57 per cent
of council staff
are White
and 37 per cent
are Black and
Minority
Ethnic
69.7 per cent
of the workforce
are aged 40 and
over. This
compares to
30.3 per cent
who are under
40.
workforce profile*
(*excluding
schools staff)
*excluding schools
61.5 per cent
of council
employees
are female
disability
About
3.7 per cent
of council staff
describe
themselves
as disabled
7.63 days
Levels of sickness absence have fallen from an
average of 7.63 days per employee in 2010-11
to 7.24days per employee in 2013-14
2010-11
7.19 days
7.23 days
7.24 days
2011-12
2012-13
2013-14
sickness absence*
(*excluding schools staff)
£284.6m
In 2013-14 the council’s revenue budget was
£284.6m. The council under-spent its budget
by £0.8m for the year. This compares to
under-spends of £3.5m in 2012-13 and £1.8m in
2011-12.
2013-14
revenue budget
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-0.5
Millions (£)
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-1.5
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-2.5
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-3.5
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revenue budget
2011-12
2012-13
2013-14
£1.8m
2011/12
£3.5m
2012/13
£1.8m
2013/14
council structure and directorates
council spending over £250
strategies and plans
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