BIRMINGHAM: Castle Vale [Population: c10,000]

Aspirations…• A fit and active community• More responsive and local services with increased take up and better outcomes

• Community control of local services

… will be achieved by…• Better co-ordination between GPs and community-based Health providers to develop a package of tailored services, managed by…

• A Castle Vale Health and Well-being Board that will manage pooled budgets and commission local health services. This activity would be complemented by:

• The possible transfer of a swimming pool, football stadium and playing fields,

Challenges…• Time commitment required by health partners to disaggregate budgets and establish new ways of working

• Encouraging and supporting local residents to take advantage of opportunities to co-design

pool, football stadium and playing fields, and a nature conservation area to community ownership

BIRMINGHAM: Shard End [Population: c25,900]

Aspirations…• To build pride in the community• To resolve some of the deeply entrenched issues in the community through locally determined action

… will be achieved by…• Establishing a locally governed body capable of driving the agenda for the area and of managing:-

• Assets – e.g. the newly-built library and community hub and the community leisure centre transferred from the City Council, and

• A community-based budget worth around £500k that would include initially libraries, neighbourhood advice

Challenges…• Encouraging and supporting local residents to take advantage of opportunities to co-design• Establishing appropriate governance arrangements

libraries, neighbourhood advice services, community development, sport and leisure, expanding to other themes over time

BIRMINGHAM: Balsall Heath [Population: c14,000]

Aspirations…“to further empower the resident customer by giving them a neighbourhood purse to spend on the services they, not the provider, chooses and on a range of preventative measures which produce ‘better for less”

… will be achieved by…• Identifying with statutory partners what their budget for the neighbourhood is and how much of it can be pooled

• Supporting residents and voluntary agencies to choose how much of that pooled budget to spend on community priorities

• A resident-led neighbourhood strategic partnership which will hold and allocate the budget, and account for its spending

Challenges…• Persuading all partners to move from doing things to residents to doing things with them

• Helping professionals to let go and follow the lead of resident customers in a new partnership of equals

the budget, and account for its spending

BRADFORD: Little Horton Ward [Population: c20,500]

Aspirations…“we want to see the community taking ownership of local issues”

“shifting from process to outcomes… from ‘I will do’ to ‘we will do’…from dependency to prosperity”

… will be achieved by…• Bringing together youth and sports provision in the area, creating a new social enterprise to better serve our young people and innovate

• With a neighbourhood body – possibly an adapted parish council – providing governance and potentially managing a budget of £2.5 - £5m

Challenges…• Level of risk involved in the community sector taking on public sector staff with TUPE and pension issues

• Encouraging and supporting local residents to take advantage of opportunities to co-design

HAVERHILL [Population: c24,000]

Aspirations…“services that are Haverhill-specific, driven by local people and managed by the One Haverhill Partnership”

“we don’t want to create another tier of local government … we want to get away from ‘service speak’ and sweep away notions of how local authorities do things”

… will be achieved by…• Starting with youth provision and public realm, work out budgets that can be devolved

• Building capabilities of different local communities, including businesses, so they can actively define and shape service outcomes

• Strengthening the One Haverhill partnership to direct services

Challenges…• Developing an incremental approach that reflects local priorities and has the potential to expand its ambition

• Enabling all parts of the local community to get involved in co-designing the approach

ILFRACOMBE [Population: c14,000]

Aspirations…• Better health, economic prosperity and high quality living environment for Ilfracombe residents

• A revitalised community that is empowered to direct public service delivery

• Public services that suit the needs of our community & the individual.

• Lone working eradicated! Our public, private & voluntary service “team” will work

… will be achieved by…• Bringing the team of partners together under a single Ilfracombe Commissioning Board

• Offering full transparency to our “shareholders” (residents) by allowing them to see what’s spent where in our town through a Virtual Bank

• Giving our shareholders a louder voice & greater control over what’s spent and prioritised by the Board by improved methods of communication with the community to identify & tackle

problems together.

Challenges…• Enthusing & persuading the community that this is a real opportunity for greater control.

• Merging the vastly different systems and objectives of our partner agencies

• Unpicking aggregated budgets to allow expenditure to be fed into the Virtual Bank

• Defining scope of what can and cannot be managed at local level.

• Measuring the success including SROI

methods of communication • Being innovative and visionary

KINGSTON: Norbiton [Population: c10,500]

Aspirations…“To improve the lives of communities in Norbiton by giving them more control and influence over the priorities and resources set for their area”

“To raise awareness across all residents and communities so that all have the opportunity to be informed and involved at the level of their choosing”

… will be achieved by…• Testing the concept and co-designing a radical proposal for local service redesign

• Aligning the objectives of two pilots:o Neighbourhood Community Budgets and Local Integrated Services;

o Mapping and pooling partner budgets in line with community priorities to take our activity to the next level in terms of devolving more power and influence to

Challenges…• Managing community and Member expectations (outcomes; pace of project; no budget)

• Ongoing capacity of partners to deliver• Willingness to engage at all levels• Willingness of budget holders at all levels to let go of their budgets and devolve spending decisions to neighbourhood level

devolving more power and influence to the local level

NEWCASTLE: Cowgate, Kenton Bar and Montagu [Population: c10,500]

Aspirations…“we want to provide services the community needs through the most effective and locally responsive mechanism”

“the key challenge will be changing perceptions embedded in both public services and residents”

… will be achieved by…

• Provide peer-led family support through local people with 'real life’ experiences...

• Enable asset-backed local social enterprise managing community and social housing facilities that can...

• Commission and be commissioned to deliver local services, including family support

Making the social and physical assets in the community work to...

Challenges…• Developing an approach that can accommodate different characteristics and histories within the neighbourhoods

• Encouraging and supporting local residents to take advantage of opportunities to co-design

support

TUNBRIDGE WELLS: Sherwood [Population: c6,850]

Aspirations…“the community working in unity”

“a community led approach to service delivery focussed on preventative rather than reactive activity”

… will be achieved by…• An initial focus on early intervention for families, building on the current Family Intervention Programme, which will be further informed by:-

• Insight work to determine what the current experiences of services looks like from the residents perspective, which will lead in due course to:

• the community being supported to help redesign services to meet local needs with:

Challenges…• Encouraging and supporting local residents to take advantage of opportunities to co-design

• The local community centre as the hub for joined-up service delivery for all residents

WESTMINSTER: Queens Park [Population: c11,500]

Aspirations…• Improve outcomes for children and young people / families at risk

• Create a formal role for residents in service development and delivery

• Improve communications between the community and service providers

• Create a sense of 'ownership' and belonging – bring together people from across the different neighbourhoods that exist within Queen's Park

… will be achieved by…• Setting up a Recovery and Early Action Partnership (REAP)

• Involving local residents in bringing together and co-designing key services

• Potentially pooling budgets, where appropriate / feasible

• Promoting civic engagement

Challenges…• Being clear about the constraints / limitations of a neighbourhood budget, getting buy-in & developing trust

• Developing sustainable governance arrangements

• Encouraging and supporting local residents to take advantage of opportunities to co-design services

TOWER HAMLETS: Poplar [Population: 25,000]

Aspirations…• Demonstrate the legitimacy of the voluntary and community sector

• Make the case for decentralisation to local authority officers and politicians

• Engage with residents and use their skills, where possible

• Address frustrations about siloed funding streams, which don't support integrated solutions and delivery of services

… will be achieved by…• Mapping the resources that are coming into the area

• Creating / simplifying funding streams• Developing services in a way that responds more effectively to the needs of residents

Challenges…• Being clear about the focus of the neighbourhood budget - getting buy-in from relevant providers and the wider community and securing the technical and political will

• Engaging, encouraging and supporting the wider community to take advantage of opportunities to co-design services

• Developing appropriate governance

HAMMERSMITH & FULHAM: White City [Population: c9,000]

Aspirations…“…give the people of [White City] ultimate control over the decisions which affect them”

“…delivering a bespoke strategy for social renewal focussed on: families, employment and crime”

… will be achieved by…• Routing funding for physical regeneration, economic development and social investment through a single neighbourhood pot – including public, private and third sector resources.

• Priorities set by the community through a new Neighbourhood Forum representing the range of local community groups – backed up by local polling and community engagement

Challenges…• Ambitious agenda, will need substantial engagement from the community and partners

• One of a number of different initiatives in the area – will need to ensure they join up, especially in approach to the community

polling and community engagement volunteers