Making Sense- Local Integrated Services

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What is the Big Society?

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Taking an active role in

our communities,

engaging in positive

social action, and

helping others out

neighbourhoods are in charge of their own destiny, feel able to shape the

world around them, and choose to do so

Government becomes a

better buyer from a

range of providers in

order to achieve more

innovative, diverse and

responsive services

which give real value £

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•LAA’s

•Central burdens inhibit innovation

•Total Place

•Pressure to deliver better for less

•High expectations of services, less money to deliver

•Citizen led decision making

•New financial freedoms and flexibilities

•Rapid implementation

EXPERIENCE GOING FORWARD

Community Budgets

CONTEXT FOR REFORM

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DfE

The Problem

Intensive family intervention

worker/ parenting

practitioner

DH

LA YJB PCTPolice

Surestart

Parent support advisers/Schools

Police officer

YOS workerCAMHS/ Mental Health Worker

Drug and alcohol team

DWP

JCP

Employment Personal advisers

VCS

Young carer support worker

Prisons

Family support workers

CLG

Housingauthorities

Housing link worker

MoJHO

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How did this happen?

1801183419121944 19862004

Birmingham = Bourton-on-the-waterPop 1 million vs Pop 4 000

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Community Budgets: The challenge around families with multiple problemsUniversal Services1

Education - £583m

Child benefits - £113m

GP/NHS costs - £31m

Targeted Services2

Welfare benefits - £753m

Mental health treatment - £21m

Parenting support - £53m

Drug treatment - £10m

£727m universal spend/yr

£837mtargeted spend/yr

Reactive spend3

Children going into care, hoax fire calls, nuisance behaviour costs, juvenile criminality costs, truancy costs, alternative education costs, vandalism, evictions due to ASB

£2.5bn reactive spend/yr

1 DfE 2010-11 planned pupil funding. HMRC website. NHS costs taken from NHS expenditure in England 2009, entitlement benefits HMRC, education costs taken from DfE planned educational spend 2010/112 Unit costs taken from the following sources Dept of Health supplied figures (drugs, alcohol & mental health, Home Office (Dynamic Benefits report – Welfare) all other unit costs from published research Steve

Parrott and Christine Godfrey, Family Intervention Projects: Assessing potential cost-effectiveness University of York, 2008 (unpublished).3 Unit costs from published research Steve Parrott and Christine Godfrey, Family Intervention Projects: Assessing potential cost-effectiveness University of York, 2008 (unpublished). Distribution of costs to families

based on a sample of 40 families selected by 17 authorities using a standardised methodology (DfE internal analysis)

46,000families

All of these families access universal services…

…and specialist services, (often repeatedly for many years)

but family breakdown and crises still leads to very poor and costly outcomes

NOTE: BROAD ESTIMATES ONLY - does not include costs of criminal justice services.

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LIS – A Step Further

Public services

Public sector buildings

Community assets – day care centre

Pubs

Business premises

Volunteers

Charity staff

Private sector staff

Clubs + Social activities

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Principles

Local Authorities commission services in liaison with local community and frontline staff

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What can others offer?

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In practice

Community as a commissioner

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Ricky Community Researcher

Basildon, Essex

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Responsibility and Activity

• Holocaust Centre – approach at a community level. Helping people understand why they need to take responsibility

• Community Organisers – Cabinet Office supporting recruitment of 5000 people to galvanise social action

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What does this mean for local authorities?

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The Challenge

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