Download - Towards a Total Neighbourhood Approach Katie Schmuecker Senior Research Fellow ippr north
Towards a
Total Neighbourhood Approach
Katie Schmuecker
Senior Research Fellow
ippr north
Focusing on the Neighbourhood
• Increasing focus of public policy– Decentralisation and place shaping– ‘Big Society’
• Site for multi-agency partnership working
• Neighbourhood is where most people encounter the state– Outreach and engagement– Mobilising community resource
What is Total Place
• Efficiency and improvement: The deep dive– Counting– Culture change– Customer journey
• Moving beyond crude efficiencies to improvement– Community involvement– Long term thinking
Total Place @ neighbourhood level
Worcester ‘area of need’• Co-production and commissioning of local
services using a single pot;• 3 hubs: training & work, children, youth &
families, health & wellbeing• Cross cutting community engagement hub
– support engagement and residents initiatives; neighbourhood participatory budgeting
Kent
• Single Gateway approach
• Margate and Clifton Taskforce: a deep and shared understanding of the issues
• ‘Special Intervention Area’ – All spend takes a spatial element– Local authority able to direct spending of other
services where relevant– Local authority takes on new roles, eg JobCentre Plus
administration
Total Place @ neighbourhood level
Total Place @ neighbourhood level
Birmingham ‘total community’
• More active involvement of community in shaping ambition for an area
• Service integration – aligned and pooled budgets
• Strategic asset management and rationalisation
Total Neighbourhood Forerunner
Blackpool
• Identified 3 priority neighbourhoods
• Identified and ring fenced discretionary spend
• Cross agency team all line managed by neighbourhood manager
Combining Total Place and neighbourhood management
• Total Neighbourhood– Mapping resource– Public service reform from the bottom up– Community engagement and involvement– Assets and potential– Relationships and community outlook