1. What can we learn from the Community Budget pilots?
Paul Gallagher Inclusion
Andy Bowie
Avanta

2. Introductions Paul Gallagher Associate Director, Inclusion Andy Bowie
Director of Business Development, Avanta

3. Overview of Session Background to Community Budgets
What are Community Budgets?
Importance of Community Budgets?
Community delivery and young people
Community Budgets in practice
The Avanta experience
Challenges to Community Budgeting
Future-gazing – where next?
Discussion and Conclusions
Policy and delivery implications for the future

4. Government Perspective
‘We can no longer afford the luxury of fruitless, uncoordinated investment. The damaged lives and communities. So don't dither or fret. Um and ah. Don't pass the buck. This is it....Think of this as a race to deliver by If you motor along then we'll play catch up. But if we get there first - you'll find yourselves behind the agenda. And I'm sorry about people who tell me they've already got a programme that deals with this. Well, if it was all dealt with we wouldn't be here. One or two projects along the right lines isn't nearly enough to solve this problem. So be in no doubt - we are in a hurry, we mean to deliver. You don't need to talk about it or show empathy. I want you to get on with it’. Eric Pickles Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government October 2011

5. Background to Community Budgets
What are Community Budgets?
Less ring fencing and direction over budgets
Localisation and redefining service delivery
Pooling and aligning of budgets of local partners
Targeting Families With Multiple Problems (FWMP), ‘rocket boosted’ since August 2011
Builds on LAA’s, Total Place, co-design pilots, Family Intervention Projects etc

6. Community Budgets in Numbers
£8bn estimated spend on FWMP – ‘welfare millionaires’
120,000 FWMP in England
16 Pilot areas covering 28 Local Authorities – 25% of English population
10,000 families supported by end of this parliament
8,000,000,000/120,000 = £66,000 – includes Universal services
But no sense of what an average family has ‘spent’ on them

7. Numbers in Context Cost per family between £150,000 - £330,000
3.88m households where no-one is in work
Households where no-one has work = 297,000
Children living in households where no-one has worked = 330,000
150,000*120,000 = 18,000,000,000 (£18bn) 330,000*120,000 = 39,600,000,000 (£40bn)

8. Background to Community Budgets
Importance of Community Budgets?
Key initiative for the coalition to manage reduced budgets and deliver more effective public services
Step change in the way that services are commissioned and funded – route for delivering on localism and devolution
Testing ground for Payment By Results (PBR)
Repositions policy to consider models of non-traditional family
New approaches – prevention, early intervention, outcomes

9. Community delivery Over view of the 16 Pilots:
Variance in approaches and progress
Key workers/lead agency
‘Shared pot’ – pooled or aligned budgets?
‘Whole systems’ not ‘individual services’
FWMP loosely defined – drug & alcohol, reducing recidivism, early years intervention etc

10. Community delivery and young people
Examples of good practice for supporting young people (within context of ‘family’)
Keeping young people in school, college or alternative learning (including measures for improving attendance and attainment)
Addressing ASB and agreeing new behaviour codes (including reducing offending and re-offending)
Addressing alcohol/drug issues
Supporting teenage pregnancies and young parents

11. Myths & Misnomers

12. The Avanta Academy

13. Culture: Contestability
Priorities for Avanta
Culture: Contestability
Early Intervention
Not more Money!
Bonds and PBR
Data Sharing
Free Schools

14. Hurdles for Community Budgeting
Scale of transformation - Longevity of approach?
Change in working/professional cultures
Consistency – local/national
Bureaucracy and complexity of ‘government’
New actors and approaches
Data sharing
Simple analysis; simply solutions
Is the challenge only about FWMP?

15. Discussion and Questions
Conclusions

16. Future-gazing – where next?
Policy and delivery implications for the future
Need for consistency over what is trying to be addressed – size of challenge
Need to be more ambitious and to move at a faster pace
From intervention to saving to re-thinking service provision

17. Future-gazing – where next?
Policy and delivery implications for the future
Best practice and models that work
Removal of barriers
Evaluation – understanding what works, but more importantly why
Data sharing

18. Contact Details
Paul Gallagher Associate Inclusion M:
Andy Bowie Director of Development Avanta M: