board meeting 27 april 2009

Southend Together – The Local Partnership

Board Meeting

27 April 2009


Chairman’s address

Cllr Nigel

Holdcroft

Chair

Southend Together


Key Strategic Partnership

Presentations


Health and Well Being Board

Katherine Kirk

Health and Well Being Board Chair


Safer Communities Board

Simon Ford

Partnership Manager – Community Safety


• Working together to reduce crime and disorder and anti social behaviour, and to improve safety for everyone living, working or visiting Southend.

• Meet the targets as determined by 2008/11 Local Area Agreement.

• Respond to the findings from the local Strategic Intelligence Assessment - what are the PARTNERSHIP crime priorities for 09/10?

• - Violent and Alcohol Related Crime

• -Serious Acquisitive Crime• - Management of Offenders• - Drug Related Crime• - Other Acquisitive Crime

• - Anti Social Behaviour• - Criminal Damage


Scope



• 20% Crime Reduction in last 3 years

• Night Time Economy Group

• Multi Agency Community Safety Team

• Enhanced Communications

Key achievements in 2008/09


Case Study – Night Time Economy Group

• Public / Private sector action group• ‘Safe’ route along High St• BOBB scheme• Help Points• Operation Backstreet• SOS Bus• Street Pastors• Marshalling• Result: Reduction in Woundings of 34% since 05/06



Key activities for 2009/10

– Focus on Domestic Abuse– Focus on Violent Crime– Introduction of Third Party Reporting for

victims of Hate Crime– Management of Prolific Offenders (acquisitive

crimes focus)



Murray Foster / Ashley Jarvis

Enterprise & Community Environment


Mission

To bring together a wide range of agencies and organisations deliver to facilitate collaborative and coherent strategy development and delivery across the partnership’s remit including the opportunity for the alignment and pooling of multi agency resources to deliver a coherent and strategic approach to delivery



Scope

– Housing– Enterprise,

Business and Skills

– Culture– Transport




• Key Achievements for 2008/09Housing

• accurate needs analysis resulting in the production of the Sub Regional Strategic Housing Market Assessment (SHMA) published in 2008

• Development of the Homeless Prevention Strategy, and Older Peoples Accommodation and support Needs Strategy, published in the winter of 2008.



• Key Achievements for 2008/09Transport

• South Essex Rapid Transit Programme taken to consultation stage. Potential for £55 million investment across the sub region

• Securing major investment in Progress Road and Victoria Gateway for delivery in 2011- £13million

• Becoming a cycling demonstration town- £6.4 million



• Key Achievements for 2008/09Enterprise, Business and

Skills– Pecha Kucha events

promoting Southend Cultural Industries

– Secured £1.9 million of EEDA funding to support Southend projects around Economic Participation



• Key Achievements for 2008/09

Culture

• Village Green event in Chalkwell Park

• Starting the new swimming pool on site


Case Study: Village Green

Enterprise & Community EnvironmentPart of the Open Weekend to launch the Cultural Olympiad across the UK

Southend Borough Council and Metal with 220 artists and 46 local arts and community groups

an inspiring day of fun, intrigue, talent, participation and a showcase the creative talent of Southend, alongside some international talent from around the UK and overseas.


key ambitions for 2009/10

• The delivery of projects worth £1.9 of EEDA money to support Economic Participation in the most deprived areas of Southend

• Developing proposals and bids for the New Museum and the New Library

• Taking forward the South Essex Rapid Transit Programme

• Increase the range of Affordable Housing options available in the borough.



Southend Children’s Partnership

April 2009


Purpose and scope

Purpose: to improve outcomes – and narrow the gap - across the Every Child Matters areas

• Being healthy• Staying safe• Enjoy and achieve• Making a positive contribution• Economic well-being

Link to Sustainable Community Strategy - contributes to:• Community cohesion• Community safety• Outstanding learning• Health and social well-being• Economic well-being

Purpose and scope


Key achievements in 08-092008 OFSTED Annual Performance Assessment• Sustained at good: ‘Enjoy and achieve’, ‘Economic well-being’ and

‘capacity to improve’• Improved to good: ‘Being healthy’, ‘Positive contribution’, ‘Overall

effectiveness’ • ‘Improvements have been sustained across a range of fronts and the

direction of travel is good’• ‘The Children and Young People Plan is driven by a clear aspiration to

achieve excellence and action is effectively prioritised to achieve maximum impact.’

• ‘Well embedded, effective Children’s Trust arrangements with strong involvement of partners’

• ‘Integrated multi-agency working is well established and continues to be strong.’


• Rate of improvement in teenage pregnancy: 12/150 areas

• Transformation of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

• 11 children’s centres + 3 more planned

• Integrated youth strategy: e.g. street engagement, Operation Staysafe, Positive Activities, successful Council/YMCA bid for new Shoeburyness Youth Centre

• Strengthened youth participation – e.g. 32% vote for youth mayor

• Integrated working – high proportion of children receiving interventions at early stages; – reduced referrals to social care; – rate of school exclusions significantly reduced

• Extended schools, educational achievement and OFSTED inspections of schools

Key achievements (cont)


Case study: children’s centres• Menu of services in each centre responsive to community-identified need

• Family support: since Sept 08 parenting courses to 150+ families, 5 dads groups, 55 children stage 2 support

• Health led parenting: in 5 children’s centres – nearly 60 families supported through this programme

• Further narrowing of gap in educational achievement of 5 year-olds for lowest achieving 20% of 5 year-olds

• Supporting employment: Since Nov 08 Job Centre Plus seconded a JCP Adviser to work from 3 children’s centres in central Southend: Nov-Feb 50 people accessed service; 7 have started employment

• Contributing to the community: 70+ trained volunteers provide additional support to children’s centres


Planned for 2008-09Children and Young People Plan 2009 – examples:• Further narrowing the gap across all indicators• Dare to dream – raising aspirations• Child poverty• Motivate the Estate – 2nd area• Integrated working: process review, community services

review, Think Family• Implementing Laming recommendations on

safeguarding/child protection• Children with Learning Difficulty/Disability: Aiming High• Education and training for 16-19 year-olds


Stronger Communities

Board


Purpose of the Board

• Build community cohesion in Southend, foster a sense of belonging for local people and break down barriers between communities

• Help local people have a greater voice and influence over decision making and services that affect their daily lives

• Strengthen the role of Southend’s voluntary and community sectors

• Improve communication and connectivity within and between sectors


Purpose of the Board (cont...)

• Deliver LAA community targets: Perceptions of community cohesion, people able to influence local decisions, volunteering, thriving third sector,

• Deliver other LAA targets: – Cleaner, greener public spaces, – tackle climate change, – improve safety on Southend’s roads


Key achievements

• Developing Community Cohesion Strategy and actions resulting from it

• Developed concept of the ‘geographic engagement framework’ into actual events

• Agreed targets for LAA– Place survey perception of community targets– Place survey empowerment targets


Community Voices events

• 4 events across Borough• Groundbreaking for Southend• Great networking opportunity for

partners• Profile raising• Evaluation underway


What’s planned for the future

• Short term decision - rejoin Stronger Communities Boards?

• Engage with a wider range of partners• Develop role of Stronger Executive• Developing plans for an ‘Active Citizenship’

programme to encourage local people to become more involved in decision making

• More Community Voices events• Deliver Community Cohesion strategy


Board Meeting

27 April 2009

board meeting 27 april 2009

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