The Salford Spotlight Experience Strategy & Regeneration Scrutiny Committee 1 September 2008

Salford Advertiser, 12 October 2006

Our local challenge and commitment: How do we connect people with economic opportunity?

Principle 1: Scale – tackling deprivation as a core competency

Principle 2: Integration – strong Partnerships are a must Source: PMSU/NRU Deprived Areas Review 2004 Concentrations of vulnerable residents Negative peer culture, low social capital Barriers to work for individuals Unpopular neighbourhood in disrepair Strain on liveability Barriers to employers/ investors High worklessness and income poverty Economic development ‘Liveability’ Social capital

Principle 3: Community connections are often the best way in…

We need a system to deliver scale, integration and community connections… Partnerships are an add on to the ‘day job’ for many partners? Public service incentives focused on national concerns? Performance measured at city level on many issues? Inflexible delivery arrangements? A third sector that is under developed and under supported? Front line workers un - involved in the regeneration effort? Deprivation as ‘special operations’?

Week Stage Products & Tasks (up to) 1 Planning Business case. Team. Methods. Stakeholders The issue Cause and effect analysis: Families, individuals, places The response Delivery Chain analysis: Systems, structures, incentives Delivery Agreements Commitment to change – made to high level panel. Bi Monthly Stock takes Regular high level checks on delivery ‘Quick wins’ – supporting local ideas A high tempo model inspired by PMDU Priority Reviews 6 onwards Delivery Quick wins. medium and long term reform.

We are committed to test the model AreaIssueSPOTlight period NDC areaYoung people not in Employment, Education or Training 15 Oct: 19 Nov 2007 Ordsall & Langworthy Safe, Clean, Green29 Oct: 3 Dec 2007 East SalfordWorklessness5 Nov: 10 Dec 2007 Further trialsLone Parents Alcohol Childhood Obesity Transport By June 2008

We have found common problems across issues - Weak local data - Weak analytical capacity - Engagement not influencing delivery enough - Plans not locally specific - Local governance not connected to LSP - Barriers to entry - Patchy evaluation - Weak mainstreaming practice - Fragmentation - Weak cross referral - Lack of incentives to meet local standards - Weak collective action - Instability Understanding needPlanning & deciding Reviewing Delivering THE CUSTOMER JOURNEY

Results: The system is changing - ‘Mainstreaming for Real’ Diversification and choice Worklessness delivery system opened up to 32 ‘new’ providers - Community & Voluntary Sector - Health, Housing Agencies Innovation, Personalisation GP’s incentivised to refer IB patients to employability advisors Area Based Grant Reform Family approach on worklessness Direct payments and personalised budgets in skills and worklessness?

Community Engagement & Accountability Dashboard’ of local safe, clean and green indicators, regular reporting to communities ‘Communities on board’ - social marketing Intensive management arrangements for regeneration areas, aligning incentives between agencies Results: The system is changing - ‘Mainstreaming for Real’ Pace and Urgency Spotlight has given our Partnership go faster and go further stripes!

UNIVERSAL SERVICES LOCALITY PROVISION ‘WRAP AROUND’ Local engagement and integrated services: ‘Jobshops’ Job Centre Plus Shaping cohesive, customer focused delivery Health & Social Care Criminal justice Housing Third Sector

Need to keep pushing on Spotlight delivery Joining up services within and across themes is still a major challenge Need to incentivise performance at local area level – what happens when delivery doesn’t? Making deprivation a fully mainstreamed issue Investing in effective City and local partnerships – an open assessment of where we are and plans for the future? Key Policy Issues for the City