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 ProposalFamilies with Complex Needs

• 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…

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

Delivering improved outcomes for FCN and Communities at lower cost through:

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 ideasStage 2 Task Groups to ensure priority projects are

appropriate, feasible and sustainableStage 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

• Annual Budget of £320,000 + £30k for development, admin & monitoring

• Intention to split the funds into 3 bands based on population within forum area:

Population

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

TimescalesJune – July 2011 Finalise details of process

August – mid October

Promotion

Late October – December

•Workshops•Finalising projects•Offer letters

Jan – June 2012 •Project delivery•Review process as required•Updates at Forums

June-July 2012 Workshops (for 2012-13)

Police and Crime Commissioners

Police and Crime Commissioners – Basic Principles

The Commissioner will:

• be responsible for appointing their Chief Constable and holding them to account

• determine local policing priorities, publish the Plan, set a local precept and force budget

• have the power to make community safety grants

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.

Police and Crime Commissioners - Community Safety

Police and Crime

Commissioner

Community Safety Partnerships

Duty to cooperate1

Request merger Power to

approve4

Power to call CSPs to a meeting to discuss force-wide issues

2

Power to request a report3

Police and Crime Panel

Scrutinise

Grant making powers5

Police and Crime Commissioners - Community Safety

Reciprocal duty for Commissioners and responsible authorities to co-operate with each other for the purposes of reducing crime and disorder

Commissioners will not be a responsible authority on Community Safety Partnerships but they will have the following powers and duties relating to community safety:

1

Power to bring a representative of any of all CSPs in their area together to discuss priority issues

2

Power to require reports from CSPs about issues of concern

3

Power to approve mergers of CSPs on application of the CSPs concerned

4

Power to commission community safety work from a range of local partners including, but not limited to, CSPs

5

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?