WORKING NEIGHBOURHOOD FUND

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• WORKING NEIGHBOURHOOD FUND
• Friday 11th July 2008

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• Mandy Chambers
• Derbyshire County Primary Care Trust Chair,
  Bolsover Local Strategic Partnership

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• 3-year allocation to Bolsover District Council
• 2008/09 2,055,516
• 2009/10 2,440,522
• 2010/11 2,535,018

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Today

• Partnership working
• Identify and roll-out best practice
• Develop cross-cutting initiatives
• Identifying and rolling out best practice

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• PROGRAMME

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• Eion Watts
• Leader, Bolsover District Council Vice-Chair,
  Bolsover Local Strategic Partnership

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OVERVIEW OF WORKLESSNESS THE NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE

• Councillor Stephen Houghton
• Leader, Barnsley MBC
• Chair of National
• Tackling Worklessness Review

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TACKLING WORKLESSNESS REVIEW

• DCLG/DWP Project Review Team Of Three
• Steve Houghton Public Sector
• Clair Dove Volcom Sector
• Iqbal Wahhab Private Sector, BME Perspective

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FIRST MEETING

• Refine Terms of Reference
• Mapping Exercise
• Scope project timescale
• What are we dealing with?
• Review academic research where are we?
• Whats worked? Whats not? What could work?
• Develop a work programme

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TERMS OF REFERENCE

• To examine how councils and partners are using
  WNF to tackle worklessness within worst
  performing neighbourhoods
• Identify what more Government departments can do
  to support local partners to deliver better
  employment and skills services for residents and
  employers
• Consider how private sector, social enterprise
  third sector and RDAs, help local partners to
  improve employment in WNF areas and through the
  new local performance framework
• To identify an evidence base to demonstrate the
  additionality of a multi-agency approach to
  worklessness
• To identify how partnerships can extend support
  and deliver improved outcomes for disadvantaged
  groups, (including BEM) and how areas are
  responding to needs of their local residents
• To consider the role of enterprise in delivering
  employment outcomes and whether partnerships have
  successfully co-ordinated supply and demand side
  interventions through LAAs and particularly LEGI
  and WNF areas

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WHY DO WE HAVE WORKLESSNESS?

• Paradox sustained economic growth, but
  concentrated pockets of worklessness
• Legacy of post-industrial society
• Imperfections of Labour markets uncompetitive
  Labour supply, lack of mobility
• Inappropriate standardised national programmes
• Changing economic demands for skills

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THE CHARACTERISTICS OF WORKLESSNESS

• Localised and Entrenched Neighbourhood
  Deprivation
• Societal low confidence, poor mobility, poor
  information networks, ingrained way of life, high
  social needs
• Long term IB claimants benefit dependency and
  alternative economy
• Financial and Social Costs
• Child Poverty
• Poor Mental and Physical Health
• ASB Cohesion, Local Environment
• Resources lost to economy
• Low skills correlation
• Influence of Wider Labour Markets

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DISTRIBUTION OF WORKLESSNESS

• Worklessness Neighbourhoods 54 below NVQ Level
  2 of which, 26 have no qualifications
• Geographical concentration
• Highest in North and Midlands
• But can be close to places of affluence
• BME Impact Employment Rate
• 75 National Average
• 62 BME
• 40 47 Bangladeshi and Pakistani
• Defined by Place

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HOW TO TACKLE WORKLESSNESS

• Understand Local Labour Markets Intervene!
• Reconcile Demand and Supply Side
  Interventions
• Demand Side Enterprise, Business Growth
• Supply Side Skills, Attainment, Counselling
• System Solutions
• Joining Up
• Sharing Resources
• Invest to Save Benefit Recycling
• Lead Partners - ?

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UTILISING WNF TO TACKLE WORKLESSNESS EARLY L.A.
IDEAS

• Used to complement and fill gaps in mainstream
  activity e.g. IB claimants beyond one year
  cut-off
• Funding Projects
• Individual opportunity adviser and brokerage
  schemes
• Stimulating enterprise
• Business Growth and sustainability
• Job Creation
• Wider context tackling poor health, street
  scene

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WHO ARE THE KEY PLAYERS?

• Local Level
• Job Centre - support people into work and fill
  vacancies
• Local Councils Leader of the Locality
• LSPs Production of S.C.S Performance of LAAs
• Business Link Support for Business Start Up,
  retention and growth
• Volcom Sector Outreach support and delivery
• Work and Skills Boards Employer led oversight
  of Labour Market
• Local Employment Partnerships JC Employer
  Agreements
• Educational Institutions attainment, skills
  planning

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WHO ARE THE KEY PLAYERS (CONTD)

• Strategic Level
• RDAs Production of R.E.S.
• City Regions LA Collaboration on Economic
  Growth
• L.S.C.s planning and funding of Ed and Trg

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NATIONAL POLICY LANDSCAPE WHATS HAPPENING?

• Opportunity, employment and progression making
  skills work
• Beyond Job Placement tailored responses to
  different communities
• Employment at heart of Neighbourhood Renewal
• Funding Reform NRF ? WNF and Reward Fund
• Local Government etc. Act 2007
• Enhanced delivery via L.A.A. targets
• Many more PIs in new framework

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NATIONAL POLICY LANDSCAPE WHATS HAPPENING?
(Continued)

• R.I.E.Ps
• Capacity building and funding
• Work skills integrated skills and welfare
  services
• Oct 08 ESA replaces IB can do not, cant do
• April 09 Flexible New Deal more personalised
• City Strategy Pathfinders Local Public, Private
  and Volcom Consortia Pooled funding,
  rationalised system, local commissioning
• SNR-High Level Measures
• New L.A. duty
• L.A. Scrutiny of and consultation on RES

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WHAT APPEARS TO WORK?

• Demand Side Interventions
• Business support and development entrepreneurial
  support
• Supply Side Interventions
• Initial engagement via outreach
• A holistic individualised approach personal
  advisers
• Employment focused education and training

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WHAT APPEARS TO WORK?(Continued)

• Supply Side Interventions (Continued)
• Specific Work Activity Schemes
• Targeting specific groups e.g. lone parents BME
• Upskilling existing workforce
• Job and Skills Matching Employer Recruitment
  Events
• No single model of successful intervention
• Multi-element packages work best

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CHALLENGES

• Complex and fragmented service delivery
• High cost of demand side measures e.g. Business
  Support
• Resource intensity of supply side interventions
  e.g. case workers
• Tradition of short term funding
• Data sharing M.O.U. a good start
• Breaking the Dependency Cycle
• Making the transition to work

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WHAT NEXT? TASKFORCE WORK PROGRAMME

• Identify and visit 12 different Stories of
  Worklessness
• Identify Best Practice
• Collate academic and empirical evidence
• Findings to Ministers October 08
• Final report to follow

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Bolsover District WNF Allocation

• Wes Lumley
• CEO
• Bolsover District Council

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Introduction

• Introduced as part of Local Government Finance
  Settlement
• To provide resources to Local Authorities to
  tackle worklessness and low levels of skills and
  enterprise in their most deprived areas
• Eligibility based on
• 20 or more of LSOAs in most deprived 10
  nationally in Employment domain
• 20 or more of LSOAs in most deprived 10
  nationally in overall IMD
• Ranked among the top 40 districts on an equally
  weighted measure of key benefit claim rate and
  employment rate

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Deprivation 2007 Index

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Worklessness - Comparison of IMD data
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Deprivation

• Qualify under 2nd 3rd criteria
• Of the 14 most deprived LSOAs under Employment,
  13 are also the most deprived under Health and 10
  the most deprived under Education, skills and
  training
• The top 6 worst for Employment are the top 6
  worst for Health

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Allocation

• 2008/09 2,055,516
• 2009/10 2,440,522
• 2010/11 2,535,018

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Accountability

• LAA includes a specific indicator at the
  insistence of GOEM
• NI 153 Working age people claiming out of work
  benefits in the worst performing neighbourhoods
• Duty to co-operate
• CPA to CAA

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Other Indicators

• Also included in the 35
• NI 117 16 to 18 year olds who are NEET
• NI 146 Adults with learning disabilities in
  employment
• NI 163 Working age population qualified to at
  least Level 2 or higher
• NI 172 VAT registered businesses in the area
  showing growth
• Education indicators

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Reward

• There is a reward grant for success
• To be measured against
• NI 153
• NI 117
• NI 163
• NI 172
• NI 118 Take up of formal childcare by low
  income working families (Not in 35)
• NI 146 not included
• Targets being determined

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Delivery

• Council Core worklessness group to commission
  direct interventions concentrating on moving
  people off benefits i.e. NI 153
• 1m each year to LSP to concentrate on preventing
  worklessness

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FAMILY EMPLOYMENT INITIATIVEEAST MIDLANDS
WNF LAUNCH EVENT 11th JULY 2008
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CRT Track Record

• Working to create holistic, cohesive approaches
  to reducing worklessness across the coalfields
  via a multi-agency approach.
• Contributing to the governments agenda of
  tackling child poverty, improving health and
  skills development in deprived communities.
• CRT core remit - Regeneration of former coalfield
  wards

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Context for developing FEI

• Major English Partnerships coalfield regeneration
  site at
• Brook Park, Shirebrook.
• 102 hectares of land to be developed
• Potential significant inward investment and
  residential housing
• Key Partners committed to maximising potential
  for connecting the surrounding communities to
  opportunities on offer .

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Geography

• Communities suffering long term generational
  unemployment
• Bolsover 46th most deprived district in England,
  - all 4 Shirebrook wards in top 20 nationally
  Shirebrook North West ward - 21 of unemployed
  had been out of work for more than 1 year.
• Warsop, Mansfield Woodhouse and Pleasley in top
  3 IMD wards - of Income support claimants
  double national average in Northfield ward.
• Benefit dependent families and households

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Environment

• When the industries of older industrial Britain
  were still working, IB numbers were a lot lower
• In the parts of Britain where the economy is very
  strong and there has effectively been full
  employment for some years, IB claims are far
  lower

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Will the IB problem simply fade away?

• A generation of older ex-industrial workers is
  passing out of the figures
• ..but when they do so, they dont free up jobs
  for the generations behind
• In practice, the remaining claimants get older,
  and the stock is topped up by new claimants

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The IB stock is changing.

• In 1990s, IB stock was dominated by redundant
  industrial workers
• but theyre rapidly passing out of the figures
• Current IB stock is dominated not just by those
  with poor health, but also poor skills and (to
  some extent) low motivation
• More women too

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Family Employment Initiative

• Local area based employment initiative
• Working with families and households
• Targeting specific streets in deprived
  communities
• One-to-one intervention with customers

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Aims and Objectives

• Reduce numbers of Incapacity Benefit, Income
  Support claimants and economically inactive
  residents
• Improve employment chances for local people
• Reduce 16-18 year olds not in Employment,
  Education and Training (NEET)
• Partner with key agencies in the delivery of
  training programmes, childcare specialist
  advice supply chain
• Bring local people to the employment and training
  opportunities

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The FEI Brand

• Heart of the community
• One to One approach
• Family/household focus
• Good, knowledgeable advisors personality
  counts!
• Door knocking, street walking, leaflet dropping
• Flexible funding fill the fridge

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The FEI Brand

• Joined up approach with other services Strong
  partnership/protocols with JCP
• Handhold and support through whole process
• Not mandatory, no pressure, - no sanctions, not
  seen as part of the establishment
• Emotional contracting
• Continued aftercare once client is into work

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Achievements so far

• Wholesale commitment from Partners
• Credibility in the community
• Geographical Roll Out - MEGZ
• Exemplar project Martin Yarnitt Associates
• 831 clients engaged
• 231 into work

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A twin-track strategy is the only way
Help for claimants training, rehabilitation,
advice, re-motivation Economic regeneration in
the areas where claimants are concentrated
Steve Fothergill Professor,
CRESR, Sheffield Hallam University
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Markham Vale Colliery
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Post Colliery Closure
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FEI Regeneration The offer

• To developing/relocating companies
• Recruitment support
• Community Engagement and Pre Employment Skills
  development - Skills for Jobs.
• Post employment workforce development Train to
  Gain.
• Roll out to other strategic sites

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The Team
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HGV TRAINING
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SECURITY TRAINING
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WHEELS TO WORK
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Flexible Routeway Provision North East
Derbyshire 2008-11
 
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Contract Scope

• Local Authority Areas of Chesterfield, Bolsover
  North East Derbyshire
• 5,200 starts 1,820 jobs over three years
• Initially, 3 year contract to June 2011

 
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Eligibility

• Unemployed - People without a job and available
  to start work and looking for work.
• Economically inactive - People without a job who
  do not satisfy the criteria for unemployed.

 
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Priority Communities
Wards

• Shirebrook East
• Shirebrook Langwith
• Shirebrook North West
• Shirebrook South East
• Elmton with Creswell
• Middlecroft and Poolsbrook
• Rother
• St.Helens

 
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Priority Target Groups

• People on incapacity benefits and Income Support
  particularly those with children
• Lone parents including support for those with
  health problems and lacking job search skills
  (especially in preparation for increased
  conditionality)
• Other people with children including those not
  on benefit
• The most disadvantaged.

 
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Most Disadvantaged Groups

• Ethnic Minority Groups
• Offenders or ex-offenders
• Those with a history of drug and alcohol misuse
• Homeless
• People with Learning Difficulties
• People with mild to moderate Mental Health Issues
  (claiming JSA)

• Migrant Labour
• Refugees
• People with Caring Responsibilities
• People in need of Basic Skills (mainly those who
  are able to gain employment without long term
  support)
• Jobseeker Allowance Customers (18)

 
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Most Disadvantaged Groups
People who continue to experience significant
barriers to employment and skills development-

• Women
• People on Incapacity Benefit (not Mandatory
  Pathways)
• Older People

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Project Aim

• Improve the employability and skills of
  unemployed and economically inactive people to
  enable them to gain, retain and progress into
  sustainable employment.
• Emphasis on delivery through outreach workers
  placed in the community through Multi Agency
  Employment Teams (JobMAETS).

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The Customer Journey (i)

• Community based IAG Outreach Workers
• Individual initial assessment with ongoing
  reviews throughout the programme
• Addressing these barriers via an individually
  tailored Action Plan, with regular reviews and
  update
• Agreeing SMART objectives in the Action Plan with
  the final aim being to gain sustainable
  employment

 
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The Customer Journey (ii)

• Signposting to other partner agencies/training
  providers where appropriate to overcome these
  barriers
• Through links with employers and the local
  employment market in general, providing job
  matching and vacancy opportunities
• Training on money management when transferring
  from benefits to employment
• Offering up to 26 weeks in-work support
• Individually tailored provision, with additional
  modular group activity.

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Employability Model
Action Planning
Job Placement
In Work Support
Client
Employer
Engagement
Employability
Robust and Effective Case Management Ongoing
Individual Assessment and Tracking
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ESP Task and Finish Group Recommendations
(February 2007)

• Co-ordination and planning
• The development of local multi agency employment
  teams (JobMAETS)
• The expansion of the number of Personal Advisors
  in the region
• Outreach through local centres and community
  organisations
• Employer Compacts.

 
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Job Multi Agency Employment Teams (JobMAETS)
Regional esp
LSP(s)/LAA(s)
Employer facing
Client facing
JobMAETS Multi-agency employment teams Comprising
Direct Delivery partners focused into local areas
Employer Link Advisors
Local centre staff
JCP local staff
IAG Advisors
Employer related staff
Personal Advisors
Specialist services eg drugs/ homelessness
Skills brokers, colleges and other providers
Volunteer placing organisations
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Customisation of Local Service Delivery

• Information Guidance and Advice.
• Employer Links/ Job Brokerage
• Modular group delivery of support at local level.

 
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Service Delivery
In the end, everything depends on how well
good policies are implemented locally, face to
face with workless people and employers.
 
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Programme Delivery Arrangements

• Laura Khella
• Chief Executives and Partnership Team

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How has the WNF been allocated?

• 1m per annum to be managed by the LSP. Focus of
  activities on preventing worklessness
• Remainder of WNF allocation to be used to
  commission activities aimed at moving people off
  benefits and into work

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NI 153 Working age people claiming out of work
benefits in the worst performing neighbourhoods

• Measured by areas with a claimant rate of 25 or
  more
• 6 Lower Super Output Areas eligible in Bolsover
  district
• Government Office target to reduce claimant rate
  from 28.7 to 24.4 by March 2011
• Equates to a net reduction of 163 people off
  benefits and into work
• Focus for the Core Worklessness Group

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Other Relevant Performance Indicators

• NI 148 - Care leavers in employment, education or
  training
• NI 150 Adults in contact with secondary mental
  health services in employment
• NI 151 Overall employment rate
• NI 152 - Working age people on out of work
  benefits
• NI 163/164/165 Working age population qualified
  to level 2, 3 and 4 respectively
• NI 171 VAT registration rate
• NI 173 People falling out of work and onto
  incapacity benefits
• NI 174 Skills gaps in the current workforce
• NI 176 Working age people with access to
  employment by public transport

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What activity can be supported with WNF?

• The LSP wishes to commission initiatives that aim
  
• to prevent people claiming out of work benefits.
  
• Key themes include
• Employment and enterprise e.g. social enterprise
  support, entrepreneurial support, staff
  development etc
• Education, skills and training e.g. training,
  re-skilling, job ready skills, sector-led
  employment programmes, apprenticeships etc
• Health e.g. mental health, occupational health,
  support for carers, stop smoking etc
• Transport (cross-cutting)

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How the LSP funding has been allocated

• Some initiatives may be cross-cutting e.g.
  transport
• Allocations to areas of activity, not thematic
  Action Groups of LSP encourage cross-working
• Action Groups will need to take ownership of
  projects in the longer term

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Commissioning Process

• Commissioning not bidding!
• Stage 1 Identification of
• intervention projects
• Stage 2 Commissioning Brief
• agreed by relevant Action Group(s)

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Commissioning Process (contd)

• Stage 3 Lead organisation invited
• to submit a WNF Proposal Form in
• response to the agreed Commissioning
• Brief
• Or
• Call for tenders through open tendering process

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Commissioning Process (contd)

• Stage 4 Project Appraisal
• Stage 5 Assessment against
• Scoring Framework (min. threshold
• 50)
• Stage 6 Contracts issued by
• Chief Executives and Partnership Team

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Project Eligibility

• Response to identified need/clear evidence base
• Impact on relevant WNF performance indicators
• Targets the most deprived areas within the
  district
• Minimum threshold for commissioned projects of
  50K p.a.
• Partnership working/consortium projects
• Match funding (where appropriate)

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Match Funding

• Lets make the most of it!
• European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
• European Social Fund (ESF)
• Coalfields Regeneration Trust (CRT)
• LEADER programme
• . to name a but a few

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Next Steps

• Workshops
• Information fed back
• Further development of project ideas
• Completion of Commissioning Briefs

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For further information

• Please contact the
• Chief Executives and Partnership Team on
• 01246 242276
• www.bolsoverpartnership.org.uk

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QUESTION ANSWER

• CHAIR
• MANDY CHAMBERS
• PANEL
• STEPHEN HOUGHTON
• EION WATTS
• JANET BIBBY
• WES LUMLEY
• ANDREW MILTON
• HIKE HUGILL
• LAURA KHELLA

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WORKSHOPS

• FIT FOR WORK
• SKILLS FOR WORK
• GROWTH FOR WORK
• ACCESS TO WORK