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Board Meeting 27 April 2009

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

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Board Meeting 27 April 2009

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  1. Board Meeting 27 April 2009

  2. Chairman’s address Cllr Nigel Holdcroft Chair Southend Together

  3. Key Strategic Partnership Presentations

  4. Health and Well Being Board Katherine Kirk Health and Well Being Board Chair

  5. Safer Communities Board Simon Ford Partnership Manager – Community Safety

  6. Safer Communities Board Scope • 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

  7. Safer Communities Board Key achievements in 2008/09 20% Crime Reduction in last 3 years Night Time Economy Group Multi Agency Community Safety Team Enhanced Communications

  8. Safer Communities Board 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

  9. Safer Communities Board 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)

  10. Enterprise & Community Environment Murray Foster / Ashley Jarvis

  11. 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

  12. Enterprise & Community Environment Scope • Housing • Enterprise, Business and Skills • Culture • Transport

  13. Enterprise & Community Environment • Key Achievements for 2008/09 Housing • 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.

  14. Enterprise & Community Environment • Key Achievements for 2008/09 Transport • 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

  15. Enterprise & Community Environment • Key Achievements for 2008/09 Enterprise, Business and Skills • Pecha Kucha events promoting Southend Cultural Industries • Secured £1.9 million of EEDA funding to support Southend projects around Economic Participation

  16. Enterprise & Community Environment • Key Achievements for 2008/09 Culture • Village Green event in Chalkwell Park • Starting the new swimming pool on site

  17. Enterprise & Community Environment Part 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.  Case Study: Village Green

  18. Enterprise & Community Environment 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.

  19. Southend Children’s Partnership April 2009

  20. Purpose and scope 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

  21. Key achievements in 08-09 2008 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.’

  22. Key achievements (cont) • 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

  23. 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

  24. Planned for 2008-09 Children 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

  25. Stronger Communities Board

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. Community Voices events • 4 events across Borough • Groundbreaking for Southend • Great networking opportunity for partners • Profile raising • Evaluation underway

  30. 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

  31. Board Meeting 27 April 2009

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