Review of Torbay Community Partnerships Torbay Strategic Partnership 11 th November 2010

Have CPs fulfilled their stated objectives to…..? Promote economic, social, health and environmental wellbeing Be mechanism for view to be fed into TSP Improve leadership for benefit of the whole area Increase participation Encourage openness and transparency develop area plans Partly – majority focus on environmental wellbeing & progress varied Partly – lack of clear TSP / CP priority links Yes for their own area – not Torbay wide? Yes – query breadth? Partly – issues re trust and greater expectations Partly – some still being developed (7/16 in place)

Key Issues Community Partnerships Agency Engagement Eg schools / health Lack of Capacity / officer support for Network – unrealistic expectations Funded by council only Links with Vol Sector Mixed support / Engagement of councillors TSP links Varied progress & Areas “in need” have made least progress Future Budget Representation – Youth, working age, ethnicity CP fragility - Risks turnover Of Steering group members Mixed response from / use by agencies - Culture shift needed? - process improvement? Data at ward level Out of date Current budget is Council only

Potential Role for CPs in localism & Big Society Communities or Community partnerships Community Asset mgt/right To buy Community Service mgt/delivery Participatory Budgeting / Local budgets Delivery of projects Holding agencies To account / monitoring Co-design of service Influencing decisions / planning Voice of community/ies

The environment and options Budget cuts Big Society Localism / local budget Review of Community Strategy Elections Existing CP’s achievements and expectations Role of TSP Continue as is but enhance support /agree purpose / vol sector link Pilot expanded CP / Big Society Focus resource on areas of most need / targeted neighbourhood working Adopt neighbourhood working across Torbay CPs to continue where self supported Combination of above

Potential way forward Agree CP purpose, criteria, roles & “sign up” with partners and CPs –Also agree “Community Development” objectives Pilot one or two Big Society CPs –Clear success measures agreed at start Focus neighbourhood support around three areas of most need (similar to Hele) –Review total input to area / reorg multi agency resource to avoid duplication / overlap Provide basic support for the other CP areas until proof of progress (esp representativeness)