regional housing group

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regional housing group Andrew Jepps,
Northamptonshire County Council
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Independence and Opportunity

• National Supporting People strategy published
  last week
• This presentation picks out the regional issues
  in particular
• Strategy doesnt set out the financial future
  but expect it to be tight

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National budget
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Household units
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Household units
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Four key themes

• Keeping people that need services at the heart of
  the programme
• Enhancing partnership with the Third Sector
• Delivering in a new Local Government landscape
• Increasing efficiency and reducing bureaucracy

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Enhancing partnership with the Third Sector

• Further develop our capacity building work to
  support and encourage smaller voluntary providers
• Work in East Midlands with EMCE rolled out from
  Northamptonshire

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Keeping people that need services at the heart of
the programme

• Service user involvement - best practice sharing
• Ensure that access to services is not
  unnecessarily restricted through local
  connections or administrative boundaries,
  particularly for groups of people, such as
  survivors of domestic violence or gypsies and
  travellers
• Enhance service user choice and control by using
  the learning from the Individual Budget pilots
  and other choice led personal funding mechanisms
• Lincolnshire and Leicester are pilot sites

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Increasing efficiency and reducing bureaucracy

• Building on the learning from the 11 initial
  Value Improvement Projects, CLG will roll out a
  national Value Improvement Programme
• E.g., building on learning from Leicester
• All Administering Authorities have been
  negotiating on value/using tenders where
  appropriate

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Delivering in a new local government landscape

• Move to LAA target April 2009
• Part of the new performance management approach
• Support, develop and share positive practice in
  the commissioning, procurement and delivery of
  housing support, particularly through the
  appointment of Regional Champions
• Work with Regional Assemblies, Government Offices
  and Communities England to strengthen the
  strategic and practical linkages between housing
  and Supporting People

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Positive practice champions

• Three in East Midlands region
• Northamptonshire (Outcomes Based Commissioning)
• Nottingham (Streamlining Referral and Access
  Arrangements)
• Nottinghamshire (Performance Monitoring)
• Opportunity to pool funds/link with GOEM

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Regional challenges

• Limitations to EMRIG (compared with other
  regions)
• No dedicated officer time
• Lack of regional SP strategy
• Hard to progress significant cross authority
  developments and efficiencies (although
  considerable work across doughnuts)
• Difficult to respond consistently in time to
  issues such as homelessness research, pathways,
  etc

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Regional progress

• Regional outcomes framework (EMCE funded)
• Benchmarking
• Opportunity for consistent contracting
• Provider forums developed
• Links with Housing Corporation
• SP Administering Authorities prioritise bids
• Reduces time spent on projects that wont get
  revenue funding
• Allows linkages between capital and revenue
  though these could be improved strategically

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Common requirements

• Move on and floating support tenancies - critical
• Genuinely affordable housing (social rent)
• Lifetime homes
• Older people specific schemes (extracare)
• Hostels modern, multifunctional
• Some enhanced designs for LD, etc

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Andrew Jepps Service Manager Planning, Policy
and Supporting People ajepps_at_northamptonshire.gov.
uk