WELCOME TO NORTH SOMERSET COUNCIL

Jo Walker, Chief Executive

8 May 2019

Jo WalkerChief Executive and Director of

Corporate Services

VacantDirector of

Finance

Sheila SmithDirector of

People and Communities

Paul MorrisHead of Performance

Improvement and Human Resources

Lucy ShomaliDirector of

Development and Environment

Nick BrainHead of Legal

and Democratic Services

CORPORATE MANAGEMENT TEAM

Vacant

Director of

Public Health

ROLE OF COUNCILLORS

• Represent your ward and the people who live in

it

• Provide a community leadership role

• Contribute to the development of the council’s policies and strategies

• Perform a regulatory role – e.g. determining

planning and licensing applications

• Uphold the standards of public office

• Regulation and legislation

LIFE IN NORTH

SOMERSET

LIFE IN NORTH

SOMERSET

ONE YEAR

LIFE IN NORTH

SOMERSET

ONE DAY

WHAT WE DO...

ADULTS

• Commission adult social care

support

• Supporting people to live

independently at home for longer

• Learning disabilities and mental

health services

• Adults’ safeguarding and quality

assurance

CHILDREN

• Safeguarding

• Community family teams

• Fostering and adoption

• Children in care and care leavers

• Education inclusion

• Early years and childcare

• Disabled children

• Youth offending team

• Music service

HOUSING

• Improving standards in private

rented sector housing

• Tackling and reducing

homelessness

• Commissioning additional

supported housing for vulnerable

people

PLACEMAKING AND GROWTH

• Strategic planning e.g. Joint

Spatial Plan

• Development management

• Regeneration of our town centres

• Economic growth, inward

investment, employment

• Major projects supported by

external funding e.g. MetroWest

NEIGHBOURHOOD MANAGEMENT

• Recycling and waste

• Highways

• Street lighting

• Leisure

• Libraries

• Parks and open spaces

• Streetscene

• Seafront and events

PUBLIC HEALTH AND REGULATORY SERVICES

• Supporting the population of North

Somerset to live more healthily and

addressing health inequalities

• Stop smoking services

• Drugs and alcohol services

• Healthy eating

• Active lifestyles

• Screening services

• Supporting mental wellbeing

• Regulatory services

CORPORATE SERVICES

• Legal and democratic

• Finance and property

• Support services partnership

• Marketing and communications

• HR and performance improvement

• Community safety

• Emergency management

• Business intelligence

• Major projects

PARTNERSHIPS

• Health

• Blue light services

• Service providers

• Voluntary sector

• Other local authorities, town and

parish councils

• Government agencies

• Schools and colleges

POPULATION

GROWING

FASTER THAN

ENGLAND

OR THE

SOUTH

WEST...

Source : Office for National Statistics 2016 based sub-national projections

12%

14%

16%

England South West North Somerset

Projected population growth 2016 -2041 From

211,500

to

251,700

POPULATION

• 213,000 –more

than doubled

since 1950s

• increasingly older

population

• above average

both national and

regional increase

in numbers of

young people

also forecast

179,200188,800

203,100220,500

237,800251,700

1991 2001 2011 2021 2031 2041

North Somerset projected population growth

INEQUALITY

North Somerset has the

third largest range of

inequality of all the 326

districts in England.

We have areas in the most

deprived 1% nationally,

and areas within the least

deprived 1% nationally.

Index of multiple deprivation 2015

Range of

inequality

Council

1 Sheffield

2 Newcastle upon Tyne

3 North Somerset

4 Wirral

5 Stockport

6 Bradford

7 East Riding of Yorkshire

8 Leeds

9 Bury

10 Chesterfield

MOST DEPRIVED

The parts of North Somerset

which are in the MOST

deprived 1% or 5% of areas

nationally, are all in Weston-

super-Mare.

Index of multiple deprivation 2015

MOST AFFLUENT

The parts of North Somerset

which are in the LEAST

deprived 1% or 5% of areas

nationally, are spread across

the area.

Index of multiple deprivation 2015

RESIDENTS EARNING

ABOVE AVERAGE

Nomis, from ONS annual survey

BUT EARNINGS FOR

JOBS IN NORTH

SOMERSET BELOW

£200.00

£250.00

£300.00

£350.00

£400.00

£450.00

£500.00

£550.00

£600.00

£

Earnings by place of residence

North Somerset South West Great Britain

£200.00

£300.00

£400.00

£500.00

£600.00

£

Earnings by place of work

North Somerset South West Great Britain

ECONOMIC GROWTH

ONS, Regional gross value added (balanced) local authorities by NUTS1 region0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

45

GVA per capita (balanced) West of England

1998 -2017

Bristol, City of Bath and North East Somerset

North Somerset South Gloucestershire

Change 2012 -2017

North Somerset 16.3%

South Gloucestershire 15.4%

Bristol, City of 12.3%

Bath and North East

Somerset-1.8%

CHALLENGES FOR THE COUNCIL

Increasing demand for services

for vulnerable people

Rising expectations of highways,

waste and other universal

services

Reducing

government grant

FINANCIAL CONTEXT

• Austerity since 2010 - £100m+ revenue savings

• £10.8m savings / additional income included within 2019/20 revenue budget

• We are traditionally a low-spending council with very low council

tax base

• To protect frontline services as far as possible we need:

• sustainable local income streams

• sustainable models for demand-led services

• innovative, efficient and transformed services

• commercial awareness within decision making.

COUNCIL TAX

1,400

1,600

1,800

2,000

2019/20 Ave Band D Council Tax Charge in South West

FUNDING LANDSCAPE

-1.00%

0.00%

1.00%

2.00%

3.00%

4.00%

5.00%

6.00%

7.00%

-20,000,000

0

20,000,000

40,000,000

60,000,000

80,000,000

100,000,000

120,000,000

140,000,000

160,000,000

2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20

North Somerset Council - MTFP Resources & Council Tax Increases

Locally Generated Resources Government Grant Income Use of Reserves Council Tax Increase

WHERE THE MONEY GOES

Net Revenue Budget by directorate 2019-20

P&C – Adult Social Care £65.8m 42%

Capital financing and interest £11.3m 7%

Non-service and precepts £8.3m 5%

Development & Environment £36.1m 23%

Corporate Services £6.7m 4%

P&C - Children’s Services £28.9m 18%

P&C - Housing £1.6m 1%

Total net revenue budget £159m

CORPORATE PLAN 2015-19VISION AND AMBITIONS

We have an ambitious vision

for the area and for the

organisation. This sums up

what we want North Somerset to be like and the

type of organisation we will

need to be to deliver it.

VISION

Prosperity and opportunity

Health and wellbeing

Quality places

A great place to live where people, businesses and

communities flourish.

Modern, efficient services and a strong voice for North

Somerset.

Being a great place means ensuring three outcomes for the people of North Somerset:

The three outcomes are broad so we have identified specific ambitions for each outcome.

OUTCOMES AND AMBITIONS

CASE STUDYMaximising independence

• Promoting wellbeing by helping people to be as

independent as possible for as long as possible

• Providing information, advice, guidance and signposting

to community resources

• Empowering communities and volunteers to play a bigger

role in supporting adults

• Strengths based assessment focusing on adults abilities and

potential

• Providing time-limited reablement to restore previous

function following illness

• Maximising independence through the use of

equipment/telecare/assistive technology

• Developing alternatives to residential and nursing care

• Extra Care Housing

• Supported Living

• Shared Lives

CASE STUDYDigital first

• Strategy to design services with digital first in mind,

underpinned by channel shift ambitions

• 10% channel shift achieved in 2018/19 in contact centres

and gateways

• Hundreds of options for customers to report online

delivered in last few years

• 76% of waste reports now made online

• Average 500 web chats in Council Connect every month

• Scanning and uploading options implemented for council

tax and benefits to stop customers having to bring or post

evidence in

CASE STUDYJoint Spatial Plan

• Examination in Public between July and October this year

• 25,000 homes, mainly across Nailsea, Backwell, Banwell,

Mendip Springs and Weston by 2036 + our share of over

80,000 jobs

• Complex regional exercise to deal with numbers,

affordable housing and infrastructure

• Plan-led approach is essential to delivering economic

growth, safeguarding the environment, securing

infrastructure and defending appeals

• Not just about planning – we have an active role to

accelerate delivery and secure infrastructure

CASE STUDYTurning the Tide - edge of care

• An intensive family preservation service demonstrating

exciting results for children and their families

• Keeping families together and reunifying some, reducing

the number of children becoming looked after, against the

national trend.

• Funded through social investment and we only pay when

agreed outcomes are achieved.

• We have seen a reduction of 55 per cent in children aged

10 to 17 becoming looked after under section 20.

• Independent evaluation has shown that the service is

achieving measurable improvements for both parents and

children.

• The reduction in demand for care also helps reduce cost.

INDUCTION PROGRAMME

STAYING UP TO DATE

• Members Only two editions a month, on Fridays

• The Knowledge staff newsletter sent to members

every Wednesday

• n-somerset.gov.uk/news latest press releases

• @NorthSomersetC• facebook.com/northsomersetcouncil

CODE OF CONDUCT AND COUNCIL CONSTITUTION

Nick Brain, Head of Legal and Democratic Services

8 May 2019

FULL COUNCIL NEXT WEEK

• Election of Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Council

• Formalities

• declarations, minutes

• Annual Meeting business

• Constitution,

• election of Leader for four year term

• scrutiny and other committees

• appointment of chairmen, appointments on outside bodies

• calendar

• Normal business

• public participation, questions, reports, motions

RULES OF DEBATE

• Stand to address the Chairman

• Speeches up to five minutes

• Motions and amendments

• Supported by officers

• three statutory roles – chief executive officer, finance and law

• other advice at request of the chairman

• normally advise on procedure or to clarify wording of motions,

declarations etc.

KEEPING YOU INFORMED

• The meeting app on your iPad will update with the agenda and

supporting documents for those committees and panels where

you are a member

• You may also subscribe to other committees and panels to receive the agendas and documents of interest to you

CONSTITUTION

• A reference document. Not expected to be read cover to cover!

• Follows Government model

• On website and you may wish to download a copy to your iPad

• A hard copy will also be in each group room

CONSTITUTION

• Part 2 articles: important basic principles

• Part 3 roles: who does what

• Council, Executive, Planning and Regulatory

• Part 4 detailed rules of procedure

• standing orders for meetings

• contract standing orders

• financial regulations

CONSTITUTION

• Part 5 codes and protocols

• code of conduct for councillors

• code for officers

• member/officer protocol

• Part 6 members allowances scheme

CODE OF CONDUCT GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

General principles

• Disclose pecuniary interests

• Accountable to the public for your decisions

• Not use council resources for political purposes

• Act in the public interest

• Not place yourself under any obligations that would affect your

decision making

• Choices should be made on merit

• Support high standards in public office

• Open about decisions and actions

PECUNIARY INTERESTS

• Disclosable pecuniary interests – set by legislation

• Have to complete register of interest form within 28 days

• Now criminal offence if not completed

AT MEETINGS – DISCLOSABLE PECUNIARY INTERESTS

• Have to disclose to the meeting and leave before agenda

item is discussed

• Disclosable pecuniary interests are those of you and your

spouse, partner or civil partner

• Declare nature and existence

PERSONAL CHECKS AND TRANSPARENCY

• Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks for some roles –

enhanced for some

• Freedom of Information

• Information governance

ADVICE AND HELP

• In house confidential advice

• Same person won’t subsequently investigate if there is a

complaint

• Constitution part 5 - please read

• Any queries – please ask

THANK YOU

Any questions or comments?