1. Tree House Liverpool
Treehouse Liverpool

2. How did I get here?
25 years trying to work out how to respond to complex and interrelated issues in ‘poor’ neighbourhoods.
In those years those neighbourhoods have seen little or no impact as a result of many initiatives and programmes designed to help them.
I live in Tuebrook in Liverpool

3. Complex solutions?

4. What we do? Focus on £ Avoid hard decisions Get the same results?
Set vague aims
Fail to Performance Manage
Often fund more of the same
Fail to evaluate
Make little or no mainstream impact

5. GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS, POLICIES AND FUNDING
Treasury
ODPM
DTI HO
DoH
DWP
DfES
DEFRA
DCMS
DfT
Sustainable
Communities
Plan (2003)
Prosperity
for All
(2003)
Building
Civic
Renewal
(2003)
Saving Lives: Our Healthier Nation (1999)
Opportunity for All: Tacking
Poverty & Social Exclusion
(2003)
21st Century Skills: Releasing Our Potential (2003)
A Better Quality of
Life for All
(1999)
Sustainable Development Strategy
(2004)
Transport 2010: The Ten Year Plan (2000)
E.g Sustainable Communities,
housing, planning,
sustainable construction,
local government, urban policy, Neighbourhood renewal, social-inclusion.
E.g Arts, heritage, libraries, museums, sustainable tourism, lottery, Millennium commission, architecture & design.
Local Leaders to bring together all of these concerns to address the needs of their localities

6. Learning?
People see themselves in terms of families, communities and relationships
Governments see them in terms of issues, responsibilities and departments.
One size doesn’t fit any one.
Services only work effectively if they take into account the ways in which individuals engage and see that most problems are complex and interrelated.

7. We Have the Capacity

8. What now?

9. To succeed we need to be seen and heard here
We are here