Transcript Charnwood Community Safety Partnership

Charnwood Community Safety
Partnership
•Families with Complex Needs
•Big Society Funding
•Participatory Budgeting at Area Forums
•Presentation re Police and Crime Commissioners
Leicestershire Community
Budgets
Programmes included to-date:
• Reducing Drug & Alcohol Misuse
• Improving Access to Services
• Improving Outcomes for Families with Complex
Needs (FCN)
Overview of Proposal
Families with Complex Needs
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Leicestershire 1 of 16 places
Theme selected by Whitehall
Proposal submitted to Whitehall 28 Feb 2011
Whitehall governance same as for Total Place
3 phase programme to 2013
Programme governance includes partners and reps
Agreement to pool budgets
Work will be based on learning from existing families with complex needs
and practitioners in Leicestershire, as well as evidenced based practice
from other places
Programme will focus on…
Delivering improved outcomes for FCN and Communities
at lower cost through:
1. Identifying with FCN and Practitioners / Services what is needed
2. Developing an improved place model for providing required services
3. Taking a whole systems approach to address root problems not just
‘presenting’ problem i.e. housing, substance misuse, parenting skills,
mental health, learning disabilities
4. An integrated and coordinated approach to service delivery
• voluntary sector and communities integral element
5. Early / earlier intervention to reduce vulnerable families from
developing complex needs
• identification of key trigger points and earlier support
Links to Community Safety Partnership
Priorities
• Reduce re-offending
• Protect the vulnerable in communities
• Reduce anti-social behaviour
• Increase public confidence and user satisfaction with local crime &
disorder services
There is clear overlap between these priorities and those sought
from Community Budgets
Big Society Funding
• The Leader and Deputy Leader officially
launched the £340,000 "people power" Big
Society Grant Fund on June 6th.
• It is part of LCCs support for the Government's
Big Society
• This aims to enable people to take key decisions
over their lives, to run local services, to buy land
and buildings and encourage people to take part
in their community.
The funding is intended to provide pump priming
support for key community projects, such as:
• Identifying community needs
• Developing a business plan or feasibility study
• Getting specialist, technical or legal advice on a
project
• Advice on running a specific service, such as a
community shop, piloting a service or activity,
training, mentoring and/or support for volunteers
• Advice and assistance with buying land or
buildings
• The funding must be used for the development
of new projects that meet identified community
needs.
• Applicants should be "not for profit"
organisations with an annual turnover of less
than £500k.
• Applicants for more than £1,000 must be
constituted groups.
• There is a short, simple application form
which is available at:
www.leics.gov.uk/bigsociety along with
guidance notes, case studies and sources
of advice and support.
Participatory Budgeting
What is Participatory Budgeting?
• ‘Participatory Budgeting (PB) engages people
in taking decisions on the spending priorities
for a defined public budget in their local area.
This means engaging residents and
community groups to discuss spending
priorities, make spending proposals, and vote
on them, as well as giving local people a role
in the scrutiny and monitoring of the process’
DCLG
LAA2 Participatory Budgeting Pilot
• Leicestershire Together pilot was from June 2009
• £20,000 for each of the 27 Community Forums.
• Key feature was the Community Forum workshop (stage
1)
• local residents/groups could present project ideas for the
local area
Basic Outline of process:
Stage 1
Workshop to identify & prioritise project ideas
Stage 2
Task Groups to ensure priority projects are
appropriate, feasible and sustainable
Stage 3
Community Forums recommend allocation of funds to
priority projects, District Local Strategic Partnerships
agree allocation
Stage 4
Project delivery & monitoring, including through
Forums
LAA2 Pilot - Achievements
• All of the £540,000 (27 x £20k) has been
allocated to over 150 projects.
• Projects ranged widely between village
hall refurbishments and feasibility studies ,
through to enhancement of sports facilities
and buy in of additional services from the
voluntary or public sector, through to
environmental enhancements.
Community Forum Budget Process
2011
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Annual Budget of £320,000 + £30k for
development, admin & monitoring
Intention to split the funds into 3 bands based on
population within forum area:
Populati
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Budget
Nr of
forums
< 15,000
£ 10k
5
15,000 –
30,000
£ 12,5k
13
> 30,000
£ 15k
7
Criteria
Funding can be used for new or existing projects. Projects
need to be:
• APPROPRIATE: Projects should not duplicate existing
services and should provide value for money
• link to one or more of the 6 high level priorities of the
Leicestershire Sustainable Community Strategy
• FEASIBLE: Projects should be lead by an eligible
organisation /body (see below) that is able to deliver the
project by June 30th 2012
• SUSTAINABLE: Projects need to provide some lasting
or longer term benefits for the area (or part of it) and
should not be reliant on further public funding to continue
once this funding has been used.
Criteria (cont.)
The following organisations / bodies will be eligible to
receive funding:
• Voluntary & Community Sector organisations,
• constituted local groups and charities (including social
enterprises, but excluding political groups)
• Parish Councils, Local Authorities and other statutory
agencies
The Leicestershire Sustainable Community Strategy
priorities are:
• Supporting Individuals and families
• Delivering effective services
• Protecting our environment
• Improving our communities
• Enhancing children’s lives
• Developing our economy
Timescales
June – July 2011
Finalise details of process
August – mid
October
Late October –
December
Promotion
Jan – June 2012
June-July 2012
•Workshops
•Finalising projects
•Offer letters
•Project delivery
•Review process as required
•Updates at Forums
Workshops (for 2012-13)
Police and Crime
Commissioners
Police and Crime Commissioners – Basic
Principles
To increase the accountability of the police and strengthen the
link between police and communities we will abolish Police
Authorities and replace them with elected Commissioners.
The Commissioner will:
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be responsible for appointing their Chief Constable and
holding them to account
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determine local policing priorities, publish the Plan, set a local
precept and force budget
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have the power to make community safety grants
Police and Crime Commissioners - Community Safety
Police and Crime Panel
Scrutinise
1 Duty to cooperate
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Police and
Crime
Commissioner
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Power to call CSPs to a meeting to
discuss force-wide issues
Power to request a report
Power to
approve
Grant making powers
Request merger
Community
Safety Partnerships
Police and Crime Commissioners - Community Safety
Commissioners will not be a responsible authority on Community
Safety Partnerships but they will have the following powers and
duties relating to community safety:
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Reciprocal duty for Commissioners and responsible
authorities to co-operate with each other for the purposes
of reducing crime and disorder
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Power to bring a representative of any of all CSPs in their
area together to discuss priority issues
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Power to require reports from CSPs about issues of
concern
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Power to approve mergers of CSPs on application of
the CSPs concerned
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Power to commission community safety work from a
range of local partners including, but not limited to, CSPs
What do we know already?
• PCCs will be elected in May 2012 for a four-year
term
• Police Authorities abolished, but chief exec may stay
on for a transition period
• Every force will have one, other than the Met (the
Mayor will act)
• PCCs will have to produce a Police and Crime Plan
• PCCs will become Responsible Authorities under
CDA 98 to work with CJS – not CSP
• Obliged to engage at neighbourhood level to ensure
police are accountable
• PCCs will be scrutinised by Police and Crime Panel
Police and Crime Panels
• Police and Crime Panels will be created,
including cllr representation from every council
in the force area
• These Panels will hold the PCC to account in the
shape of an Annual Report, the Police and
Crime Plan, HMIC reports and other reports on
activity as and when these are necessary (to be
shared with councils)
• The Panel can appoint an acting PCC from
within its own ranks should there be a vacancy
• Panel can veto the CC selection/removal and
the Budget with a ¾ majority
So what will this mean for
CSPs?
• A new line of accountability
• Consideration of how CSPs align with PCCs and
the Panel for overview and scrutiny
• CSP strategies should align with PCC Plans,
although retaining a local focus
• Funding streams currently going to CSPs will go
to PCCs
• PCCs can make grants to anyone to reduce
crime and disorder – so CSPs are in competition
What might be different?
• PCCs may choose to commission ALL CS services
– or just focus on policing
• If so, services will need to be evidenced for delivery
and quality – evaluations must be of a high standard
• You may be in competition with third/private sector
providers. Is it worth competing, or do you withdraw
from some services?
• If you do compete, do you need to merge services
for efficiency across boundaries?
• Can you create a single commissioning framework
across the force area to realise efficiencies?
Timeline:
• Bill to return to Commons shortly
• June-July/Sep-Oct: ping-pong
• 6 Nov: last date Bill can be passed for May
elections
• Panel decisions made by c.March 2012 (or
HS decides)
• 6 May 2012: First elections OR
• May 2013 if not passed in time
Questions to consider:
• What services are already operating
across council boundaries?
• What services can be best delivered at a
force level?
• How can you “sell” CSPs to the incoming
PCC?
• What will the CSP landscape look like in
2013? What do you want it to look like?