Welcome to BSF: Meet the Team 2

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Welcome toBSF Meet the Team 2
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• Welcome
• Lisa Bibby
• BSF Strategic Project Director

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Event Purpose

• To provide you with an
• overview of aspirations and joint programme
  delivery
• opportunities to meet and speak with key officers
  and stakeholders
• outline BSF key strands
• opportunity to register for the bidder day (23
  June)
• To provide us with
• valuable feedback on our proposals
• options for consideration

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Joint Aspirations
Sean Harris, Chief Executive, Bolton Peter
Morgan, Strategic Director of Childrens
Services, Blackburn with Darwen
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The Authorities An Overview

• Record levels of jobs and employment
• Major developments delivered
• Record levels of new investment
• Improved health and community facilities
• New housing
• Improved transport links

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Corporate Assessment - Overviews

• CPA Excellent 4 Star Authorities 4/5 years
  running
• Numerous service based awards
• Beacon Status school improvement, business
  support, libraries, school workforce remodelling
• Childrens Trust Pathfinder Flagship Integrated
  Childrens Centres Partnership with Health
• Success in attracting investment

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An Aligned Vision

• Exceed national school targets
• Close the gap on aspiration and achievement
• Accelerate improvements to secondary school
  standards, attendance and enjoyment
• Create an excellent personalised provision
• Develop an effective strategy to address
  segregated communities
• Deliver an excellent extended service provision
• Provide for the needs and preferences of the
  boroughs diverse population
• Ensure all children meet their full potential
• Enable young people to access a full 14-19
  entitlement
• Embrace the opportunities ICT brings

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The Challenges

• Economic inactivity
• Low skill economy
• Low wages
• Vulnerable communities
• BSF will help develop a sustainable high quality
  skill base supporting a broad-based high wage
  economy

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Health Inequalities

• Blackburn with Darwen
• Life expectancy (years) 2004-2006 average
• Blackburn with Darwen males 74.2
• England males 77.3
• North West males 75.8
• Blackburn with Darwen females 79.2
• England females 81.6
• North West females 80.3
• There was a gap in life expectancy of 5.8 years
  between the poorest and the most affluent
  areasof Blackburn with Darwen 2002/04

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Health Inequalities

• Bolton
• Life expectancy (years) 2004-2006 average
• Bolton males 75.2
• England males 77.3
• North West males 75.8
• Bolton females 79.5
• England females 81.6
• North West females 80.3
• There was a gap in life expectancy of 14.6 years
  between the poorest and the most affluent areas
  of Bolton in 2002/04

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Educational AttainmentImprovement, but more to
do

• Bolton
• 1998 Percentage achieving 5 A-C in BwD 40.3
  (nationally 43)
• 2006 Percentage achieving 5 A-C in BwD 51.3
  (nationally 57)
• 2007 Percentage achieving 5 A -C in BwD 54.8
  (nationally 59.3)

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Educational AttainmentImprovement, but more to
do

• Blackburn with Darwen
• 1998 Percentage achieving 5 A-C in BwD 37
  (nationally 43)
• 2006 Percentage achieving 5 A-C in BwD 52
  (nationally 57)
• 2007 Percentage achieving 5 A -C in BwD 59
  (nationally 59.3)
• Big improvements
• but closing the gap to the national average
  remains a challenge

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Our Response
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The Last 5 Years

• Blackburn with Darwen
• Housing Stock transfer 9,000 homes
• Community Plan 20 Year Vision
• Single Pot Local Area Agreement
• Pioneering partnership working leading to
  accredited Local Strategic Partnership
• Resource mapping exercise key to deploying
  resources
• Public Service Board
• Housing Market Renewal transformation beginning
• Public Private Partnership with Capita North
  West Business Centre 700 new jobs

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The Last 5 Years

• Bolton
• Achieved govt target for decency standard in
  council homes 2 years early in 2008 in 18,500
  properties
• Community strategy 10 year vision to 2017
• Accredited Local Strategic partnership
• Currently re-negotiating LAA
• LAA agencies Group
• PPP Partnership with Serco has delivered Leisure
  Trust realising 18m investment
• Town centre regeneration expected to deliver over
  1 billion

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Key Challenges

• 2 Boroughs rich in faith and cultural diversity
• where both councils are committed to improving
  aspirations, economic wellbeing and achievement
  levels within all their communities

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We are committed do

• Celebrating and supporting our cultural, faith
  and ethnic diversity
• Securing equity for all of our children and young
  people
• Improving the life chances of all
• Regenerating our communities
• Developing safe and sustainable neighbourhoods

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BSF will provide a key vehicle to achieving this

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Vision to Reality

• Progress to date
• Readiness to Deliver
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• Programme management and governance
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• Resources and skills
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• Communication and engagement v v
• Strategy for Change Part 1 and Part 2 v
• Procurement preparation
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• OBC submission
  v

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• Harry Catherall,
• Deputy Chief Executive and Project Sponsor
• Steve Arnfield,
• Deputy Chief Executive and Project Sponsor

Committed to Success through Partnership
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The joint LEP

• Working in collaboration to
• secure efficiencies
• maximise market interest
• maximise access to scarce and expensive expertise
  
• maximise transformational outcomes through
  collaboration.

Result better outcomes for children, young
people and communities
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Our experience in partnership

• Across boundary student support
• Joint projects undertaken through AGMA and NWCFC
  memberships
• Partnerships formed to maximise efficiencies,
  develop resources and improve outcomes
• Joint smart card transport and leisure

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A joint and co-located team
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Supported by Joint External Advisers
Plus Independent Technical Advisors
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To achieve our vision will require an estimated
500m, joined up with other capital funding and
regeneration investment streams

• Blackburn with Darwen
• One wave, two phases, nine learning centres, on 8
  sites
• New build/remodel/refurbish ratio 602317
• 2 Sample schemes (provide baseline for Bolton
  Programme)
• Area wide, fully integrated, managed ICT service
• Bolton (Indicative Programme)
• One wave, three phases, fifteen schools and seven
  pupil referral units
• Likely 2nd new build/remodel/refurbish ratio
  503515
• Procurement of a shared ICT solution across the
  two boroughs is currently under investigation

BSF Our Vision

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BSF Provisional Implementation
ICT Managed Services
Primary Capital Programme
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Added Value Additional Investment Opportunities

• Learning and Skills Council
• Primary Care Trust
• Culture, Leisure and Sport
• Regeneration

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Addressing the challenges of large scale
collaboration

• Project alignment
• Recognition of differences
• Genuinely open and honest
• Clear effective communication
• Informed by prior learning (STAG/ Salford
  Wigan)

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A partnership with Blackburn with Darwen and
Bolton offers opportunities to work with two
Councils recognised for

• innovation
• strong leadership management
• capacity and capability
• ability to deliver its promises
• corporate priority success, for all partners
• effective prioritisation of investment
• excellent collaboration, coordination and
  cooperation

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We are looking for partners that demonstrate

• honesty and openness
• high integrity
• innovation
• client focused approach
• ability to deliver in time, cost and quality
  parameters
• commitment to deliver wider economic/sound
  benefits

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Success will require

An innovative partner committed to supporting,
developing and delivering community, employment
and regeneration opportunities