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Community Fund HoldingJohn Waters

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About me

• In Control lead on research and evaluation• 23 years’ experience in sector•Conceived and developed the approaches that underpin RAS •Led National Personal Budget Survey (national audit report)• Personalisation for most marginalised


A wealth of knowledge skills and experience


AccessLifeaspergersBlackburn with Darwen Borough CouncilCambridgeshire County CouncilCaring AlternativesCentral Bedfordshire CouncilChoice Support

Council of the Isles of Scillycurrently unemployedEcebs LtdEclipse HomeCareEnhamEssex CouncilHartlepool Mindheadway dorsetHerefordshire Carers Support

Hertfordshire PASSHF Trust LtdHomeCareDirectIn ControlLondon borough of LambethMiddlesbrough CouncilNHS CumbriaNottinghamshire County CouncilNotts CCPapworth TrustPeople CanPeople in Action

philhadastroke.tvStockport councilSuffolk County CouncilSwindon borough councilVOICE UKYork Council

Assistant Director of PBSBrokerage CoordinatorCase-Coordinator for AdultsCommissioningcommunity development workerDevelopment ManagerDirectorDirectorDirector of Development, Research and Policy

Equal Access to Justice Project Coordinator

Roles

Independent consultantLocal Area Coordination Development Manager

Locality directorManagerManaging DirectorMarketing ManagerparentParticipation Facilitator

Organisations

Personalisation LeadPersonalisation LeadPersonalisation ManagerProject development managerProjects ManagerReablement Programme LeadRegional DirectorResearcherSelf Directed Support Team ManagerService Directorservice manager personalisationsocial workerStrategic Development Manager

How we plan to develop and implement Community Fund Holding


Working with Commissioners

Working with Communities

Sharing LearningOpenly Clear

values

Communities

Person centred System centred

The people and places I know and am connected to.

Administrative boundaries

Common interest, experience, identity

Common services

Neighbourhoods Wards

Gifts resources and growth Deficit & deprivation stagnant

Capacity Incapacity

Active partnership Dependence passive

Putting People First (social care transformation) talked about social capitalThere is a need to think about the relationship between communities.

Community fund holding

Community Fund holding Builds on the learning of self directed support, applied at a community rather than an individual level.

A Community FundFinancial resources that are under the control of a community being used to achieve outcomes that have been agreed with the state (the local authority).

Predefined outcomes Support to plan Review &Evaluation

Provide a focus for and a ring fence on the usage

of money

Link to democratic accountability

Localised decisions

Capacity to mix social and statutory resources

Capacity to measure impact of money against

outcomes

Share learning across a community.

Devolving control of resources

• Increase the capacity for innovation• Solutions, services, responses that are better attuned to

local needs and circumstances• Matched resources (latent capacity)• Active ownership, away from passive recipient.

• The most articulate take control• Only most popular concerns are addressed• Only the most local concerns are addressed and

strategic overview is lost• Lack of democratic accountability

Opportunities

Risks

Creating an alignment of interest

• Tensions in the purchaser provider spilt• Outsourcing of activity• Innovation and contribution are inhibited


How do personal budgets and Community Funding connect

• Work side by side; not intended to replace personal budgets

• Feature a devolution of power and control• Maximise innovation, contribution, and flexible use of

resources • Reshape key relationships • Feature strong conditionality


Both

Some things need to be done collectively - some things are best done around a person

It is possible to stimulate engagement and contribution?


The way local authorities act can make a big difference (POET)

Engaged and contributing

Disengaged

Conditions?

A story of a residents’ committee

No Tea Tuesday

Maximising engagementA direct personal interest I must be directly affected by the goals of the plan

Personal influence and

impact

I must have genuine opportunity to shape and influence the plan

Feedback and communication I must see how my contribution is influencing the decisions and activity of

the community.

Common purpose I must share a common interest with others developing the plan

Opportunity There must be an opportunity for me to engage and I must have capacity to

take it

Expectation I and others must expect me to take part and contribute

Size Communities over a certain size are unlikely to be able to maintain the

conditions that maximise engagement.

Conditions

Community fund holding model

Local commissioning body

• Composition: link to existing (management, governance & democratic structures)

• Prioritisation: set priority with clear link to policy and corporate objectives

• Define outcomes: not tasks and solutions • Allocate: and provide resources: (time constraints and duration)• Collaboration: single or partnership body (funding integration)• Approval: endorse lead group & signs off community plan (against

explicit conditions)• Overview and auditing function• Support: facilitating planning• Review: and public accountability, receives and monitors

outcomes

Community fund

• Defined Money: the resources available to the community need to be known early on in the process.

• Outcomes: what must be achieved with the money must be clear to all from the start.

• Parameter: if there any restrictions to be placed on how the money can be used these need to be made known at the start.

• Holding: it should be clear how and where the money will be held, there are likely to be a range of options. Those allowing local control, quick and easy deployment are likely to work best.

• Probity: arrangements for auditing should be simple and proportionate

Group

• Most communities will have a network of established ‘groups’, formal and informal

• It will be necessary to identify one lead ‘formally constituted’ group to act as ‘banker’ budget holder

• The group should share a common purpose with the predefined outcomes

• The group should be from or created within the community

• The role of the group is to act as host and hub (employing facilitator, holding money) providing a central coordinating point for the Community Fund Holding process

Community Plan

• Agree a decision making process (people won’t always agree)

• Create vision of possibility, what does a perfect community look feel like?

• Think about the gifts, talents, resources available within and to the community

• Focus on the outcomes (not activity)

• Map a path (Today, 3 months, 6 months time)

• Include risks, opportunities barriers en route

• Be clear about who’s doing what

• How will people communicate ?

• How will people be sustained on the journey ?

Sign off

• Legitimate function of local commissioning body• Approval against pre-defined outcomes & constraints• Considering risks (threats to community wellbeing)• Contribution & innovation (established as a pre-requisite)• Timely and proportionate• Risk enablement strategy• Avoid perverse incentives (by withdrawing funding as

social capital is released)

Delivery

• A changeable plan (feedback from review)• Combination of funded formal activity and informal

contribution • Extend beyond lead group (not a function of the lead

group)• Variable activity across different groups , towards single

outcome• Day to day management: co-ordinate management • How will delivery be sustained• Crisis management problem solving mechanism

Review

• Outcomes focused review• Live reporting to lead group to shape delivery

implementation• Embedded: low transaction costs• Reporting periodically to commissioning body

accountability• Celebrating is sustaining• Share learning locally and nationally

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