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Opportunities for improving
Partnership working in the new
arrangements
– Getting ready for PCCs
David Lock,
Policy Adviser,
Local Government Association
12/09/12
www.local.gov.uk
What do PCCs mean for VCSE?
Some themes explored:
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Funding and the current landscape
Understanding the changes
Adapting to the new arrangements – survival
Partnership working – opportunities
Checklist - for VCSE organisations
2. Current important funding streams
Probation
Trusts / Victim
support
Community
Safety Partnerships
Police
Authorities
(Community Safety Fund)
Funding for
various projects
initiatives
established
programmes
Other funding
streams
donations etc
VOLUNTARY COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL
ENTERPRISE ORGANISATIONS
Funding: what will stop?
• Definite:
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Community Safety Fund
Early Intervention Fund – already gone (makes up EGSYV fund)
Youth Crime & Substance Misuse Prevention – already gone (to PA)
Victim’s Services Funding
• Almost Certain:
– DIP main grant
– Drug Testing
– Positive Futures
• Unlikely (but never say never):
– VAWG
Understanding the new arrangements
Understanding the new landscape and
new funding arrangements - PCCs
• Unlike police authorities PCCs will not be part
of community safety partnerships;
• There is however a mutual duty to cooperate,
and have regard to each other’s priorities;
• It is not clear how PCCs will fit in with existing
and new partnership structures;
• But unlike police authorities PCCs will be
commissioners of services.
Understanding the new landscape
– LAs and CSPs
Police and Crime Panel
Scrutinise
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Police and Crime
Commissioner
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Duty to have
regard to each other’s priorities
Power to call CSP chairs to a meeting
to discuss force-wide issues
Power to request a report
Power to
approve
Grant making powers
Request merger
Community
Safety Partnerships
Understanding the new landscape
- some opportunities for VCSEs?
Will PCCs understand the vital role of VCSE
organisations?
• June 2012 LGA survey of prospective PCC
candidates
• Some encouraging feedback?!
VCSE: their vital role
VCSE: their vital role
From the PCCs perspective
Yes the importance of VCSE recognised
– but in practice:
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But will they want to commission services?
Will they have the expertise to do so?
If they do, commission will they act unilaterally or jointly?
Joint commissioning /co–commissioning?
Where does that leave VCSE organisations?
How should they react? Can it be made an easy and
‘obvious’ decision to commission VCSE organisations?
Making it easy for PCCs? (1)
• Get yourself on the radar
• Introduce yourselves to PCC candidates
• Make your case? Linked to their P & C Plan!
(help shape their plan if you can)
• Have some evidence
• Present the evidence clearly
(note other examples..….)
Making it easy for PCCs? (2)
Highlight that VCSEs may provide new models
to deliver services more:
– effectively
– economically
– Flexibly / enthusiastically?
……..in situations where they wouldn't
otherwise be delivered
Note the current Cabinet office push Frances Maude Mutuals Task Force
(money to pump prime and promote) (Mutuals Information Service)
Making it easy for PCCs? (3)
• Group together with others
• Advantages of joint bidding makes it easier for the
PCC by
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Avoiding piecemeal £ handling
Only one body to deal with
More efficient potentially
Joins up partners
• Practicalities of a joint cross boundary VCSE bid
• Opportunities for partnership with your CSP
• Co-ordination of work in Dorset could be vital and
mutually beneficial for all
Others who may commission
- in the ‘new world’
The main focus of this presentation has been PCCs
and CSPs – but don’t forget:
• Heath and Wellbeing Boards (will be
commissioning services)
• Probation Trusts (changes from 2014)
• Victim support (from 2014 MoJ £ to the PCC)
Coordination through joint or co-commissioning?
A coordinated VCSE offer to PCCs?
VCSE organisations understanding joint /
co-commissioning and working
in partnership with others
to help:
- avoid duplication and
- fill gaps in the PCCs
Police and Crime Plan
A further option to exert some influence?
Police and Crime Panels
• Role is to both review and scrutinise the PCC’s actions
and decisions, and also to assist them in the effective
exercise of their functions;
• Review the draft police and crime plan;
• Review the PCC’s annual report and hold a public
meeting to question the PCC about it;
• Approve the PCC’s precept;
VCSE might attend meetings to make their points heard?
Final Checklist / summary of key points
Preparing for PCCs:
 Are you going to compete for funding from the PCC, and how well
prepared are you to do so?
 Could you come together with other partners to bid for funding? If
you do you have the right structures in place to do so?
 Have you engaged with partners and been invited to consider the
impact PCCs will have?
 What are your priorities for services, are they shared by other
partners, and what will the PCC be interested in?
 How easy is it for a PCC to engage with you?
 Do you have evidence that what you do works and offers value for
money?
 What can you do to influence candidates’ priorities, and therefore
potential police and crime plans?
 If the PCC does not support your work what do the members of the
police and crime panel think about it?
David Lock
[email protected]
020 7665 3864