Assessing the impact on Salford of “The Coalition: our programme for

government”

Salford Strategic PartnershipExecutive, 27 July 2010

A Healthy City

NHS

• GPs as main Commissioners

• Future of Strategic planning

• Maintaining delivery and stability in a period of change

• Reconfiguration of services – New rules

• Future of Public Health and Partnership working

Mike BurrowsSalford NHS

A Safe City

Civil liberties• Programme to reverse the erosion of civil liberties and roll back state intrusion

Crime and policing• Make the police more accountable through oversight by a directly elected individual• Give local authorities and the police much stronger powers to remove licences from, or refuse to grant licences to, premises that cause problems• Pay independent providers to reduce reoffending, paid for by the savings this new approach will generate within the criminal justice system

Justice• Explore alternative forms of secure, treatment-based accommodation for mentally ill and drugs offenders

Don BrownCommunity Safety Unit

Salford City Council

A Learning and Creative City

Universities and further education • Support apprenticeships, internships, work pairings, and college and workplace training places • Judge Lord Browne’s report into higher education funding against need to increase social mobility, consider the impact on student debt; properly funded universities and better teaching• Review support for part-time students in terms of loans and feesCulture, Olympics, media and sport• Enable partnerships between local newspapers, radio and television stations to promote a strong and diverse local media industry • Improve identification of funding streams

Keith BarnesUniversity of Salford

A City where Children and Young People are Valued

Schools • Ensure that new providers can enter the state system in response to parental demand; that all schools have greater freedom over the curriculum; and that all schools are held properly to account • Improve vocational education, increasing flexibility for 14–19 year olds and creating new Technical Academies

Families and children • Maintain the goal of ending child poverty in the UK by 2020 • Take Sure Start back to its original purpose of early intervention, increase its focus on the neediest families, and better involve organisations with a track record of supporting families. Investigate paying providers by results • Investigate a new approach to helping families with multiple problems

Nick PageChildren’s Services

Salford City council

An Inclusive City

Communities and local government • Devolve power and greater financial autonomy to local government and community groups, including a review of local government finance • Help communities save local facilities and services threatened with closure, and give communities the right to bid to take over local state-run services

Equalities • Promote improved community relations and opportunities for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities, including an enterprise mentoring scheme for BAME people

Social action • Train community organisers and support the creation of neighbourhood groups, especially in the most deprived areas• Encourage volunteering and involvement in social action, including launching a national day to celebrate and encourage social action

Lynne ElliottSalford CVS

An Economically Prosperous City

Communities & local government• Local enterprise partnerships to replace regional development agencies

“Big Society”• Support creation and expansion of mutuals, co-ops, charities and social enterprises and involve them more in running public services• Train new generation of community organisers and support creation of neighbourhood groups, especially in most deprived areas

“Breakthrough Britain”• Five pathways to poverty: family breakdown, economic dependency and worklessness, educational failure, addiction and serious personal debt. Highlights the role of the voluntary sector in reversing breakdown

Welfare reform • End all welfare to work programmes and create a single one • Reform government funding for welfare to work programmes to reflect the fact that initial investment delivers later savings through lower benefit spending • Re-assess all Incapacity Benefit claimants for readiness to work, moving onto Jobseeker’s Allowance those assessed as fully capable of work• Investigate how to simplify benefits to improve incentives to work – Dynamic Benefits

Chris MarshSalford City Council

A City that’s Good to Live In

Communities and local government • Abolish regional spatial strategies and return decision-making powers on housing and planning to local councils• Reform the planning system to give neighbourhoods more ability to determine the shape of the places• Phase out the ring-fencing of grants to local government and review the unfair Housing Revenue Account

Energy and climate change • Encourage home energy efficiency improvements paid for by savings from energy bills. • Improve energy efficiency in businesses and public buildings

Transport • Reform the way decisions are made about which transport projects to prioritise to recognise fully the benefits of low carbon proposals, including light rail schemes • Support sustainable travel initiatives, promoting cycling and walking, and encourage joint working between bus operators and local authorities

Paul WalkerSustainable Regeneration

Salford City Council

OverallDeficit reduction• Deficit reduction, and ensuring economic recovery, is the most urgent issue • Protect those on low incomes from the effect of public sector pay constraint and other spending constraints

Government transparency• Create a new ‘right to data’ so that government-held datasets can be requested and used by the public, and then published on a regular basis

Communities and local government• Ensure that citizens know how taxpayers’ money is spent in their area and have a greater say over how it is spent

Political reform• Give residents the power to call local referendums on any local issues

Alan TomlinsonSalford City Council