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