Board Meeting

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• Board Meeting
• 27 April 2009

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Chairmans address

• Cllr Nigel
• Holdcroft
• Chair
• Southend Together

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• Key Strategic Partnership Presentations

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Health and Well Being Board

• Katherine Kirk
• Health and Well Being Board Chair

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Safer Communities Board

• Simon Ford
• Partnership Manager Community Safety

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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Enterprise Community Environment

• Murray Foster / Ashley Jarvis

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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 partnerships remit including the
  opportunity for the alignment and pooling of
  multi agency resources to deliver a coherent and
  strategic approach to delivery

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Enterprise Community Environment

• Scope
• Housing
• Enterprise, Business and Skills
• Culture
• Transport

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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.

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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

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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

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Enterprise Community Environment

• Key Achievements for 2008/09
• Culture
• Village Green event in Chalkwell Park
• Starting the new swimming pool on site

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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

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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.

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Southend Childrens Partnership

• April 2009

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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

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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 Childrens Trust
  arrangements with strong involvement of partners
• Integrated multi-agency working is well
  established and continues to be strong.

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Key achievements (cont)

• Rate of improvement in teenage pregnancy 12/150
  areas
• Transformation of Child and Adolescent Mental
  Health Services
• 11 childrens 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

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Case study childrens 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 childrens 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
  childrens 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
  childrens centres

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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

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• Stronger Communities Board

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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 Southends voluntary and
  community sectors
• Improve communication and connectivity within and
  between sectors

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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 Southends roads

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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

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Community Voices events

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

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Whats 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

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• Board Meeting
• 27 April 2009