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Posted on November 13th, 2009
The IDeA is leading on connecting the order viagra or levitra Total Place pilots with other Total Place-like work being carried out across the country. They have collated information from across these ‘parallel places’
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Michelle Nuttall, michelle.nuttall@eera.gov.uk, 01284 729479
Ricky Fuller, ricky.fuller@eera.gov.uk, 07920 466995
Improvement East has provided a total of £1.19 million for upper-tier partnerships to work on Total Place activity in 2009-10 under the banner of ‘Leadership of Place’ work. Essex, and Cambridgeshire have received £300,000 each, Suffolk and Norfolk have received £50,000 each to build on programmes funded in 2008-09; the other upper tier partnerships have received £98,000 each to support both leadership and counting activity.
Contact: Adrian Smith, Head of Corporate Development adrian.smith@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Cambridgeshire Together has received £300,000 from Improvement East for their project “Making Cambridgeshire Count”. The project will include:
The timetable for the work is:
Contact: Dan Gascoyne, Assistant Director for Partnership Delivery, dan.gascoyne@essex.gov.uk, 01245 437302
The Partnerships Director from Essex CC has been to LEAPP events in Norfolk, and taken some positive messages from that, but also some lessons (not least around the cost of the Leadership Centre approach). They are now planning to map both activity and commitment from partners on the issues most important to the partnership. These key themes will be identified at their major partnership conference in July. They expect the mapping to be completed by Christmas, with further work likely to continue through to the end of March 2010.
Essex Partnership have established a Total Place project (“Essex – Essex Works: Essex Counts”),funded by £300,000 from Improvement East. The Partnership forum met on September 15 to consider which themes might be considered for “deep dives”. This session was jointly chaired by South East Essex PCT and Essex CC.
Contact: John Sellgren, john.sellgren@hertscc.gov.uk, 01992 555619
Embarked on a Leadership Centre-facilitated programme in Autumn 2009. Norfolk and Suffolk counties were facing potential local government reorganisation, and having seen the disruptive effect this could have on relationships and partnerships in both Cumbria and Bedfordshire, they were keen to undertake a programme that would emphasise shared interests and build relationships, to safeguard against the potential distraction and disruption of the LGR process.
The RIEP provided £150,000 match funding to each of the counties to pay for the Leadership Centre’s work.
Contact: Eve Dewsnap, eve.dewsnap@norfolk.gov.uk Paul Adams, paul.adams@norfolk.gov.uk 01603 222635
Used PWC to do initial research into total spend. Indicated total public sector spend in Norfolk approximately £7bn. Areas of biggest spend were; social protection, health and education. Areas highlighted where there are several agencies all funding within the same issue e.g. within education, 16 organisations (totalling £88 million) are funding ‘education not defined by level’ (training).
One of the key features of their ‘deep dive’ proposals are to involve local partners and service users as much as possible in the process so that Norfolk can learn from it and repeat it for other issues as they are identified by the partnership.
Norfolk has now completed the cultural part of the programme, which has been named “LEAPP”. It has undoubtedly helped maintain effective working relationships in the county through a protracted LGR process, and associated political difficulties – the GO observes that partnership working around the LAA has been as strong in Norfolk as anywhere in the region, certainly at officer level.
The next stage for Norfolk will be to turn at least one of the five “challenge” areas identified through the first phase into an efficiency project. It is anticipated that a final report will be presented to the partnership in July.
Contact: Christina Wells, Head of Strategic Improvement and Partnership, christina.wells@peterborough.gov.uk, 01733 747474
Peterborough have developed a solutions centre for problem-solving across a partnership with a dedicated space, an analyst and a facilitator and 12 working days allocated over a 3 month period. They have invited Whitehall in to look whole system at problem-solving. It was commissioned by one of the partnership boards with sponsorship from a director of the partner organisations.
Initial trialling on teenage conceptions has proved successful and identified solutions are about to be piloted in at risk areas across the city. A programme looking at car crime is now underway. This approach has parallels with the “deep dive” activity in Total Place.
Southend Together (LSP) have had a group of finance officers from across the Partnership looking at how to align the LAA area based grant with the LAA priorities. They will now recommend to the Partnership that work commence on a broader, more customer focused project (possibly around a neighbourhood Think Family initiative) looking at Total Place as an example.
Embarked on a Leadership Centre-facilitated programme in Autumn 2009. Norfolk and Suffolk counties were facing potential local government reorganisation, and having seen the disruptive effect this could have on relationships and partnerships in both Cumbria and Bedfordshire, they were keen to undertake a programme that would emphasise shared interests and build relationships, to safeguard against the potential distraction and disruption of the LGR process.
The RIEP provided £150,000 match funding to each of the counties to pay for the Leadership Centre’s work.
Contact: Caroline Davison, Corporate Strategy and Partnerships, caroline.davison@suffolk.gov.uk, 01473 264400
In Suffolk, the programme has been called “Lives and Leaders” (“The Lives we Lead, the Leaders we Need”). A leadership collaborative of 22 cross-sector leaders has been through a programme to revisit Suffolk’s collective priorities, engaging in hands-on visits to the front-line of public services and meeting some of the harder-to-reach communities in the county, such as travellers. As a result, strong personal networks have been formed within the leadership group, laying the foundations for much more effective joint working from here on. There has been a reported shift in the trust and maturity of those relationships, evidenced for instance by their openness to proposals for greater data and intelligence sharing between partners. The task now is to mainstream this approach, and one aspect of this is a leadership development programme for the next tier of officers from the county’s eight councils. The Leadership Collaborative have committed to developing a “cookbook” of “recipes” of innovative collaboration.
Suffolk and Norfolk are now jointly undertaking the “counting” aspect of the Cumbria / Total Place experience, and the RIEP’s efficiency cluster is providing £100,000 to fund this. Norfolk and Suffolk are currently going through this process together (“Norfolk Numbers” and “Counting Suffolk”), leading the work themselves rather than the Leadership Centre.
Currently finalising the themes for the ‘deep dive’ explorations. Issues that are complex and that have a significant impact on Suffolk’s people will be chosen. These will be areas where there are multiple inputs across a range of partners and therefore, potential for better collaboration to improve service users’ experience, work more efficiently and reduce costs such as:
Also want to analyse the cost of LSP partnership working in a two-tier structure.
Partners are now applying a whole system approach to service improvement and efficiency. Initially, this will be through an exercise to establish total public sector spend.
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