Transcript Savings and Transformation – Review of Partnership Discussions

Leicestershire County Council
Savings, Service Transformation
and Communities
Nicole Rickard
LCC/LRALC Conference 2013
Review of Financial Position
• The County Council needs to make £100m savings
(£65m currently unallocated) in the next 5 years,
from an annual net budget of £356m
• Health savings across LLR are £290m by 2017/18,
including £100m reduced activity funded by CCGs
– £30m East CCG
– £30m West CCG
– £40m City CCG
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Changes in budget
Additional Funding Required
£450m
£425m
£29m increase
£400m
£9m reduction
£40m increase
£375m
£350m
£432m
£372m
Changes 2012/13 to 2017/18
£325m
£300m
12/13 Funding
Received
Inflation (5 years)
Service
Growth
(e.g. demand)
Temporary Capital
funding /
contingencies
17/18 Funding
Required
Funding available
Funding Available
£450m
Changes 2012/13 to 2017/18
£425m
£400m
£16m increase
£375m
£350m
£7m increase
£63m reduction
£372m
£325m
£332m
£300m
12/13 Funding
Received
Council Tax
(net of discounts)
Business Rates
(inflation)
Government Grant
17/18 Funding
Expected
Funding deficit
£440
£100m Funding Deficit
£432
£420
Millions
£400
£380
£360
£340
£320
£332
£300
Funding available 2017/18
Funding required 2017/18
2013/14 budget – total £356m
60%
20%
Targeted (£215m)
Universal (£71m)
11%
9%
Support Services
(£38m)
Capital Financing
(£32m)
2013/14 budget – total £356m
Adults & Communities (£127.6m)
36%
Children & Young People (£59.0m)
17%
Highways & Transport (£50.7m)
14%
Central budgets (£43.7m)
12%
Corporate Resources (£33.3m)
9%
Waste Management / Environment (£26.4m)
Chief Executives (£15.2m)
7%
4%
Universal services – total £71m
Waste (£27.4m)
7.7%
Highways (£18.9m)
5.3%
Education (£4.8m)
1.3%
Libraries (£4.6m)
1.3%
Support for Communities & Economic Growth (£4.4m)
1.2%
Public Transport (£4.3m)
1.2%
Regulatory & Planning (£3.3m)
Heritage (1.8m)
0.9%
0.5%
Sport (£0.7m)
0.2%
Country Parks (£0.5m)
0.1%
Civic Affairs (£0.2m)
0.1%
Targeted services – total £215m
Older People (£55.1m)
15.5%
Learning Disabilities (£50.2m)
14.1%
Childrens Social Care (£38.2m)
10.7%
Targeted Transport (£29.4m)
8.3%
Physical Disabilities (£13.2m)
3.7%
Early Years (£9.4m)
2.7%
Mental Health (£7.6m)
2.1%
Youth (£6.7m)
1.9%
Special Needs (£3.7m)
1.0%
Public Health (£0.8m)
0.2%
Community Safety (£0.5m)
0.1%
Travellers (£0.1m)
0.0%
Timescales
County Council
• Considering savings on three levels :
 Transformation programmes – potential areas for saving through
integration
- Health and Social Care Integration
- Families
- Economic Growth & Transport
 Efficiencies
 Lower priority services
• Indicative targets for departments and themes
• On-going programme of engagement, including
budget consultation – Stakeholder Event (July 16th),
Focus Groups, Survey in Leicestershire Matters
LCC Engagement -Broad timescales
Options agreed
Planning
Engagement and consultation
Internal communications
Stakeholder
events
Focus groups
Survey
Analysis
Feedback
Develop MTFS
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Partnership Priority Outcomes
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First draft of revised LT Outcome Framework
Reflects changed context and priorities in 33 key strategies
Additional principles proposed to underpin delivery
Move from 4 priorities to 6 = early intervention/prevention,
targeted and high cost services
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Vulnerability
Ageing Population
Healthier Population
Communities in Charge
Waste
Economic Growth
• Universal services – people and places
• Tonight part of process of ‘sense checking’ with key
partners/partnerships
Opportunities to integrate
• We need a shared, place-based understanding of the
financial challenge
• We have to appreciate the implications of not working
together to tackle this challenge (e.g. displacement effects)
• Our starting point has to be ‘citizens’, ‘families’ and ‘place’
rather than ‘organisation’ or ‘service’ (-based silos)
• We need to encourage individuals to take more
responsibility for themselves and others
• We must enable communities to play a role in prevention
and early intervention
• We should focus on assets and strengths rather than
deficits and service-based solutions
• We need to have honest conversations about what people
value, and therefore want to protect, most
Big Society Survey 2013
• Big Society is…
…about placing the main responsibility on the individual and on
communities, rather than on government (49% net)
…A strategy for ensuring that services continue to be delivered when the
state cannot provide (35% net)
…a smokescreen for public service cuts (31% net)
• Measuring Big Society – Top 3
– Do you agree or disagree that by working together people in your
neighbourhood can influence decisions that affect the neighbourhood
– How important is it that you contribute to your community in some
way?
– Would you be willing to work together with others on something to
improve your neighbourhood?
Big Society Survey 2013
• Barriers to Big Society
– People don’t know what it is (83% net)
– People don’t see it as relevant to them/their lives (80%)
– People don’t know how to get involved (71%)
• Other Barriers (open ended responses)
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Lack of time / busy lives
Lack of money / financial security
Apathy / lack of motivation
People aren’t inspired to get involved
Lack of skills
Top-down, something being done ‘to’ people
Reliance on an active few – the ‘usual suspects’
Big Society Survey 2013 – Key Themes
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Actively encourage and nurture ownership
Jargon free, regular, clear and honest communication
Less talking and more listening (to everyone)
Support, not lead v pro-active leadership
Provide access to (visible) decision makers
Simplify the process of getting help
Practical support – advice, training, funding, mentoring, project
management…and encouragement
Capacity building support – dedicated workers
Minimise barriers and reduce bureaucracy
Devolve decision making, budgets and service delivery – let go!
Culture change - in communities and LCC
Support and empower minority/marginalised communities
Target support – not ‘one size fits all’