Economic Strategy for Leicester and Leicestershire

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Economic Strategy for Leicester and
Leicestershire

• Economic Inclusion Consultation Event
• 5th September, 2007

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Kevan Liles

• CEO, Voluntary Action Leicester
• LSEP Board Member

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Programme

• Welcome
• Economic strategy
• Economy interactive session
• Future role of third sector in economic
  development
• 11.15 break

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Programme

• Themed presentations
• Improving employability
• Enterprise and Procurement
• Growth Point
• Place shaping/ sustainable communities
• Environment and transport
• Community cohesion
• Questions and answers
• 1pm Lunch

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Programme

• Workshop of choice
• 3.30pm Tea
• Plenary session, workshop feedback
• Concluding remarks
• 4.30pm Close

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Professor Shirley Pearce

• Vice Chancellor, Loughborough University
• LSEP Board Member

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Why are we doing this?

• Articulating a Vision
• Setting an agenda for the sub-region
• In order to create an environment for success and
  prosperity

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Key Questions

• What is the economy like now?
• Where do we want to get to and when?
• How do we achieve that change?

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Economic Strategy Steering Group

• Shirley Pearce, Chair
• Jim Connelly, Job Centre Plus
• Rachel Elliott, Ibstock Community Enterprise Ltd.
• Steve King, PKF
• Adrian McInnes, William Davis
• Jeff Miller, Leicester City Council
• Tom Purnell, Leicestershire County Council
• Mary Rogers, LSC
• Sue Smith, Harborough District Council
• Kishor Tailor, Caroline Boucher, Steve Dibnah,
  LSEP
• Jon Walker, Loughborough University
• Reports to LSEP Board

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What have we done so far?

• Meetings held in March, June July
• Agreed timetable for strategy development
• Reviewed evidence base
• Developed SWOT
• Considered bold and distinctive aspirations for
  area
• Innovation and sustainability key themes emerging
• Leicester Shire Day event in May for private
  sector consultation

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Next Steps

• Consultation days with public and voluntary
  sectors Sept/October
• Strategy out for consultation in December
• Launch of economic strategy, March 2008

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Kishor Tailor

• CEO, LSEP

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Rick Moore

• Director, Moore and York,
• Professional Services
• Chair, LSEP

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A vibrant third sector is vital?

• Voluntary and community sector is critically
  important to the national, regional and local
  economies
• Not only around economic inclusion but
  opportunity to make a significant commercial
  contribution to the economy
• Positive climate for change

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Future role of third sector

• Government has identified 3 key priorities over
  the next 10 years.
• Support a wider range of activities by the third
  sector, particularly community action and
  campaigning to achieve change
• Focus more on investing in the long-term future
  of the third sectors work
• Focus more on improving local partnerships

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National Government Priorities

• Campaigning and helping third-sector
  organisations give people a voice
• Strengthening communities
• Transforming public services
• Encouraging social enterprise
• Supporting the environment for a healthy third
  sector

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Peter Warlow

• APEX
• OPERATIONS MANAGER

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Improving Employability

• Our Mission Statement
• Inspiring People to realise their potential in
  learning , work and life

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Improving Employability

• Disadvantaged not disinterested
• Possible reasons for unemploymentSocial or
  culturalPoor educationLanguage deficiencies

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Improving Employability

• Leitch says
• Around 50 of those with no qualifications are
  out of work. Equipping disadvantaged groups with
  a platform of skills including literacy and
  numeracy will be increasingly essential to
  improving their employment opportunities

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Improving Employability

• ESF 07-13 aimed at helping unemployed
• Not giant strides but baby steps
• Foundation Learning Tiers

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Improving Employability

• Losing the labelLone ParentOver 50Ex
  OffenderNEET

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Improving Employability

• Work with employers to determine
  expectationsCoach the potential employeesUse
  volunteers

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Improving Employability

• A fair approach to fundingLocal and community
  groups delivering in local communitiesLonger
  contractsAccess Centres

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Improving Employability

• Funding will be needed over a longer period,
  focussed on a smaller group of people

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Carol Varley

• Director, VAL

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Captains of Industry and Commerce
Enterprise and Procurement in the Voluntary and
Community Sector
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Enterprise and Procurement in the Voluntary and
Community Sector
Consider the following facts and figures about
the voluntary and community sector (VCS) from the
third sector review

• Turnover
• 1997 - 16 billion,
• 2004/2005 - 27 billion.
• Volunteering - contribution to the economy is
  equivalent to 1 million full time jobs.
• 20.4 million volunteers active in 2005.

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Enterprise and Procurement in the Voluntary and
Community Sector

• Charitable giving in 2005 - 9 billion.
• 630 Charities with a turnover in excess of 10
  million per annum.
• 567 registered credit unions in Great Britain
  with half a million members, as of September
  2006.
• 55,000 social enterprises with turnover of 27
  billion contributing 8.4 billion to gross
  domestic product - 5 of all business with
  employees.

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By anybodys standards, irrespective of sector,
that is some clout in terms of

• Jobs and contribution of volunteers.
• Income generation and wealth creation.
• Business skills and acumen.
• Taking risks, growth and expansion.

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If the VCS want to continue to use its clout to
tackle social exclusion and bring about economic
inclusion for the sector and those whom we serve,
we need to

• Promote our contribution, value and values to
  partners and stakeholders.
• Demonstrate and evidence the impact of what we
  do
• Outcomes,
• The difference we make,
• Added value,
• Reach - our links with local communities and
  excluded groups.

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If the VCS want to continue to use its clout to
tackle social exclusion and bring about economic
inclusion for the sector and those whom we serve,
we need to

• Develop skills, knowledge, capacity and
  capabilities as organisations and within our
  workforce to make the most of opportunities,
  particularly around public service delivery.
• Ensure that the independence of the sector is not
  compromised.
• Refuse to use charitable funds or use volunteers
  to meet needs that the state should meet.

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Procurement and Commissioning

• Commissioning and procurement of public services
  has been rising since 2002 Cross Cutting Review
  of VCS.
• Now accelerating rapidly as a result of Gershon,
  Local Area Agreements, challenging and stretch
  targets and Local Government White Paper.

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Procurement and Commissioning

• Expectation that public agencies will be
  commissioning and procuring services, often at
  regional level
• Learning and Skills Council (LSC)
• Legal Services Commission (LSC)
• NHS / Primary Care Trusts (PCTs)
• Local Authorities
• Job Centre Plus / DWP
• NOMS
• Central Government Departments
• VCS groups in receipt of Central Government
  Funding

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Procurement and Commissioning

• In the City competitive tendering for the NRF has
  already happened and will do so for any funding
  going through to the Local Area Agreement.
• We now compete against the public and private
  sectors, non-government organisations and other
  VCS groups including regional and nationals.

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My Wish List - These apply to both the VCS and
SMEs in the private sector

• Development of a skills and knowledge base around
  commissioning and procurement within the sector
  and by the sector for sustainability.
• Development of higher level technical skills
• Financial, full cost recovery, VAT.
• Legal and governance.
• Responding to tender invitations.
• Marketing.
• Monitoring and evaluation.

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My Wish List - These apply to both the VCS and
SMEs in the private sector

• Supply and market development, particularly of
  local provision and with commissioners.
• Opportunities to acquire appropriate quality
  standards / organisational accreditation, e.g.
  MATRIX, IIP.
• Development and support for mechanisms to inform
  VCS groups about invitations to tender and other
  opportunities.

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My Wish List - These apply to both the VCS and
SMEs in the private sector

• Development of a level playing field
• Fair and equitable management of risks and
  administrative burdens.
• Fair and reasonable contracts for three years.
• Removal of unfair, unreasonable, unnecessary or
  plainly stupid rules.
• Ongoing engagement of VCS in development of
  policies, procedures and practices relating to
  commissioning and procurement.

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My Wish List - These apply to both the VCS and
SMEs in the private sector

• A willingness on behalf of partners to support
  the VCS in challenging the perceived wisdom of
  central government
• (some of the Third Sector Review isnt good for
  the sector!)

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The third sector has a long and illustrious
history of addressing social and economic
exclusion, before state interventions, many of
these people were from enterprising and
entrepreneurial backgrounds.
Our Clout can make a real difference. Id
personally like to implore you today to share
your personal clout with us to make it a reality.
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• Supporting Growth in Leicestershire
• Steve Birkinshaw
• Government Office for the East Midlands

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New Growth Point

• Why is Growth Needed?
• How will it be Achieved?

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2004 Based Population Projections

• Leicester/shire 2006-16 2006-26
• 19 and under - 5,800 -1,500
• 20 to 64 13,000 15,700
• 65 and over 35,600 71,200
• TOTAL 42,800 85,400

ONS, 2007
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• The Leicester Growth Pump

International migration
Leicester Leicestershire Urban
Area County
Natural increase
Natural decrease
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• The New Growth Point Program

• Based on the experience of 2003 Growth Areas
• Bids invited from Local Councils in Dec 2005
• Successful bidders announced in Oct 2006
• A long term partnership for growth
• Scale and location subject to planning system

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• 3 Cities New Growth Point

• Submitted by the 6Cs
• Focussed on Nottingham, Derby and Leicester
• Growth Plan being submitted in October
• RSS Panel Report due November

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• New Growth Point Principles

• Early delivery of housing
• Sustainability of development
• Infrastructure to support growth
• Supporting delivery

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• Potential New Growth Point Projects

• Green Infrastructure (at least 10)
• Place making - community capacity
• Place making - place perception

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Rachel Elliott

• CEO, Ibstock Community Enterprises Ltd.
• LSEP Board Member

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• Sustainable communities should be thriving,
  vibrant, sustainable that will improve
  everyone's quality of life. A sustainable
  community is a place where people want to live
  and work now and in the future. 
• DCLG website

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Sustainable communities embody the principles of
sustainable development. They do this by

• balancing and integrating the social, economic
  and environmental components of their community
• meeting the needs of existing and future
  generations
• respecting the needs of other communities in the
  wider region or internationally to make their own
  communities sustainable
• Sustainable communities are diverse, reflecting
  their local circumstances. There is no standard
  template to fit them all. 

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• Place shaping should both reflect the
  distinctive identity and aspirations of the
  people and the area, and function as a means of
  safeguarding and promoting their well-being and
  prosperity.
• The Lyons Inquiry into Local Government

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• Community-based organisations are active in that
  local space that lies beyond the reach of private
  and public sectors and most larger voluntary
  sector organisations. The strength and
  vitality of community based organisations impacts
  directly upon the well being of the whole of
  society.
• Professor Stephen Thake,
• Community Assets, DCLG, 2006

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• The Future
• Community Anchor organisations
• Sustainable Community Strategies
• Local Area Agreements
• Quirk Review and Asset Transfers
• BUT

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• Vast majority of sector is engaged in activities
  that contribute to sustainable communities are
  operating below the radar and do not want to be
  part of the big strategic response
• What is the role of the Strategy in supporting
  these groups? How does that fit with issues such
  as Capacity Builders, the simplification agenda
  for Business Support, public sector procurement,
  etc?

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• The Strategy needs to make the connections and
  show how all parts of a sustainable community and
  the community organisations within it help to
  contribute towards the creation of a vibrant and
  sustainable local economy AND how the local
  economy has its part to play in the creation of
  vibrant and sustainable communities and
  supporting those community organisations.

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Michael Cooke

• Safer and Stronger Communities Partnership

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RES Ensuring Sustainability

• Within ensuring sustainability theme, 4 strategic
  priorities
• Transport and logistics
• Energy and resources
• Environmental protection
• Land and development

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Karen Chouhan

• Chair Peepul Centre

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LSEP

• Karen Chouhan

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CIC

• this report is aimed at everyone in England,
  regardless of their background. We do not
  underplay the importance of tensions linked to
  ethnicity and faith in some areas but tensions
  can arise anywhere, for example between
  generations or income groups. Integration and
  cohesion must therefore be about more than
  tackling inequalities and discrimination.

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CIC

• The national picture is a positive one
  perceptions of cohesion are good in most areas
  on average 79 of people agreed that people of
  different backgrounds got on well in their local
  area and the level of agreement fell below 60 in
  only ten out of 387 local areas

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Commission on Integration and Cohesion

• But our consultation suggests that it remains
  the case that vulnerable communities are being
  left without the English skills they need to get
  by.
• ..should consider using the money they save on
  translating written materials to add to the pot
  available for English lessons.

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CID Agenda

• Citizenship oaths of allegiance and English
  tests
• Commission for Equalities and Human Rights
• Commission on Integration and Cohesion
• Immigration and Asylum more problematising.
• Internment
• Institutional racism
• Integration who has segregated who?
• Islamophobia
• ID cards
• Discrimination Law Review
• Diversity
• Discourse ideology of blaming the victim

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BAME people key to regeneration

• The exploitation of black labour has built
  Britain and continues to build Britain
• Building the empire
• In rebuilding Britain after the war
• In keeping inner cities alive, but they have
  never been the masters of it and here is the
  challenge to deliver race equality
• How do we ensure economic equity and Black
  involved at every stage of the regeneration
  process?

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Multi roles

• NHS built by migrant Black workers
• 40 of all doctors, dentists and nurses in London
  are Black
• UK Olympic gold medals 9/14 since 1988
• Olympic 2012 winning bid
• Mastermind 2005 - Shaun Wallace
• The Apprentice 2005 - Tim Campbell
• Miss England Hammasa Kohistani
• Amjad Hussain Rear Admiral Royal Navy
• Amir Khan UKs brightest boxing talent in years
• Monty Panesar, Lewis Hamilton
• Most widely eaten food in the UK is curry
• Music
• Fashion
• .., to be continued..,

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Our new definition of integration and cohesion is

• An integrated and cohesive community is one
  where
• There is a clearly defined and widely shared
  sense of the contribution of different
  individuals and different communities to a future
  vision for a neighbourhood, city, region or
  country
• There is a strong sense of an individuals rights
  and responsibilities when living in a particular
  place people know what everyone expects of
  them, and what they can expect in turn
• Those from different backgrounds have similar
  life opportunities, access to services and
  treatment
• There is a strong sense of trust in institutions
  locally to act fairly in arbitrating between
  different interests and for their role and
  justifications to be subject to public scrutiny
• There is a strong recognition of the contribution
  of both those who have newly arrived and those
  who already have deep attachments to a particular
  place, with a focus on what they have in common
• There are strong and positive relationships
  between people from different backgrounds in the
  workplace, in schools and other institutions
  within neighbourhoods.

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EQUANOMICS UK

• Address race equality via an economic analysis
• Develop financial literacy programmes with
  attention to such items as credit, pensions,
  banking, investments, asset ownership
• Work with the private sector
• Address procurement, affirmative action

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EQUANOMICS UK

• The formation of a Black UK-wide alliance.
• Establish a minimum of x5 regional Equanomic
  Action Teams by April 2008.
• Annual Report detailing outcomes from the
  development of relevant Race Equality policy.
• Annual Conference attracting UKs key
  stakeholders across all sectors.
• Roadshow Tour for relevant stakeholders in key
  cities and locations across the UK.
• Co-ordinated and Shareholder action campaigns.
• A minimum of x10 Policy Briefings per year on
  social and economic race equality.
• Thematic Roundtable discussions across core UK
  cities.
• Student and youth development programme, in
  partnership with Students and youth groups.
• Development and launch of Equanomics Website with
  regional pages, email and alert systems

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Change the discourse

• Avoid C words
• (Commission, Cohesion, Citizenship tests)
• Interrogate I words
• (integration, Islamophobia, institutional,
  Imperial, identity, immigration)
• Encourage the use of E s
• (Equality, economic equity, evidence that is
  empirical, empower, enforce)
• Depend on our Rs
• (rights, responsibility, research, respect,
  records, restorative justice.)etc
• The mark of a good democracy is how well it
  treats the most vulnerable in society

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Workshops
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More information

• Copies of slides and notes of workshops on
  www.lsep.co.uk
• Fill in contact sheet in the packs