Best Value Performance Plan Summary Document

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Resourcing CDRP Work Steve Arkley Head of
Community RegenerationDistrict of Easington
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Steve Arkley ProfileHead of Community
Regeneration

• Community Safety
• Community Development
• Cultural Development
• Social Inclusion
• 3.5m of external funding
• 18 Fixed term posts out of Unit of 40

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District of Easington CDRPPriorities 2002/2005

• Theft from the home
• Anti Social Behaviour
• Vehicle Crime
• Violent Crime (particularly Domestic Violence)
• Substance Misuse
• Young People

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The Bigger Picture

• What are the local Priorities (outside of CDRP)?
• Health, Education, Employment, Housing etc
• What are the local funding triggers?
• IMD ranking, New Deal, NRF or European Objective
  area
• Where does the CDRP sit within the Local
  Strategic Partnership (LSP)?
• How does the CDRP influence and contribute to
  other strategic partnerships
• CLEAR AUDIT OF THE OPPORTUNITIES AND THE
  DELIVERY MECHANISMS AVAILABLE

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The Easington Picture

• Ranked 4th most deprived district in England
• Significant Health Education and Employment
  issues
• Crime seen as a cross cutting issue with Health,
  Education and Housing implications
• Average crime rate high
• High perceptions of crime and fear of crime
• CDRP a member of the LSP
• Well developed LSP committed to innovation

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Resourcing Easington CDRPMainline

• District Council
• County Council
• Police
• PCT
• Probation Service
• Voluntary Sector
• Business Community

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Resourcing Easington CDRPExternal

• Neighbourhood Renewal
• Single Regeneration
• European Urban II
• European Objective 2
• Neighbourhood Management Pathfinder
• Home Office - Street Wardens
• Home Office - CCTV
• On Track

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Funding in Easington for CDRP cont..External

• Youth Inclusion Programme
• Primary Care Trust
• Building Safer Communities
• Capital Modernisation Fund
• Basic Command Fund
• Etc, etc,etc
• 27 funds drawing down 3m in funding

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Opportunities

• Increased Resources
• Develop new activity
• Bring partners to the table
• Join up services and fill gaps
• Build the capacity of the partnership
• Direct impact upon reducing crime

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Threats

• Capacity of CDRPs to manage funds
• Year on year or short term funding
• Fitting your Strategy into the funding (vice
  versa)
• Capital and Revenue splits
• Accountability ability of partners to deliver
• Divisive
• Sustainability

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Case StudyTackling Anti Social Behaviour The
Problem

• 22 rise in ASB complaints when recorded crime
  fell by 12
• Identified linkages to lack of lesiure
  facilities, high truancy rates,poor transport
  and inter generational issues.
• No central co ordination, complaints received
  across several agencies
• Limited Police Council resources to respond
• Public Perceptions of lack of action
  accountability

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Case StudyTackling Anti Social Behaviour The
Action

• Strategic Working Group of Decision Makers
• Local Structure of Case Conference Groups
• Multi Agency Team of Police Council Officers
• Central Point of contact clear lines of
  responsibility
• Specialist Projects Teams

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Case StudyTackling Anti Social
BehaviourSpecialist Project Teams

• Off Road Bike Team (SRB)
• Vehicle Nusiance (BCF)
• Outreach (SRB /Europe)
• Positive Futures (Home Office)
• Street Wardens (Home Office/ RSL/SRB)
• Arson Reduction (NRF/SRB)
• Mediation (NRF)

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Case StudyTackling Anti Social Behaviour
Jointly Tackling Vehicle Nuisance
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Case StudyTackling Anti Social Behaviour
Easington Response to Arson was launched in May
2003, in partnership with the Police, Durham
Darlington Fire and Rescue and the District of
Easington to combat Vehicle Nuisance with the
main emphasis to reduce Arson Vehicles removed
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Case StudyTackling Anti Social Behaviour
Positive FuturesWorking wih the 50 most at
risk young people in the district to develop
citizenship and personal oppertunities.
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Case StudyTackling Anti Social Behaviour The
Funding

• Local Structure of Case Conference Groups
• Empowered with devolved budgets
• Multi Agency Team of Council Police Officers
• Funded for 3 years (NRF)
• Specialist Project Teams
• Externally Funded (NRF, SRB, BCU, BCF and Home
  Office)
• 1.5m of external funding secured levering
  2.7m of mainline funding
• Sustainability Plans in place

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Case StudyCapacity Building The Problem

• Massive Partnership Agenda linked to IMD ranking
• Two Tier Council
• Capacity issues for lead Partners eg PCT
  Probation
• No central point of contact, who, what and
  where is the partnership?
• Day to management co-ordination

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Case StudyCapacity Building The Action

• Lee House Partnership Base established
• District, County Council CSOs
• Police Liaison Officers
• Fire Service
• Youth Offending Service
• Domestic Violence and Victim Support
• ESMI
• 50 staff co located

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Case StudyCapacity Building The Funding

• Lee House Base (SRB)
• Support Staff (BCU, SRB, Charitable Trusts
  NRF)
• Project work (as above)
• 800k of external funding levering in 1.1m of
  mainline funding
• Sustainability plans in place

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Case StudyCapacity Building The Outcome

• Central Co-ordinating Team
• Increased Investment
• Management Accounting Systems in place
• Team Building working out of the box
• Innovation eg ERA, ASB Team, CSTtv
• Public Perception Greatly improved
• Home, Brand, Identity

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District of Easington CDRP

• External Funding !
• Has it worked ?

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Easington CDRP Priorities
Theft From The Home T
Vehicle Crime T
02/03
03/04
02/03
03/04
Down 15
Down 19
(County Up 2)
(County Down 15)
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Easington CDRP Priorities
Violent Crime T
Substance Misuse TX?(Detected Drug Offences)
Up 15
Down 15
(County up 4)
(County up 10)
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Easington CDRP PrioritiesAnti Social Behaviour
Total ASB complaints T
Vehicle Arson T
00/01
02/03
03/04
02/03
01/02
03/04
Down 13
Down 24
(County up 11)
(County up ?)
Change in counting rules
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Easington CDRP PrioritiesYoung People
Youths causing T Annoyance complaints
Fear of young people T hanging around
02/03
03/04
02/03
03/04
Down 3
Down 6
First decrease in 6 years
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Development Issues

• Although evidence of improvement there is still
  a bidding culture for CDRPs
• Funding Structures encourage short term
  planning for long term problems
• National priorities dont always mirror local
  priorities
• Capacity of Partnerships to bid and manage
  funding programmes
• Capacity of Partnerships to evidence success or
  failure of funded programmes
• Capacity of Partnerships Full Stop...
• CDRP linkages into LSPs
• Biting the bullet! Mainstreaming under Section
  17

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Making the most of the opportunity

• Know where crime sits in the bigger picture
• Ensure the CDRP is linked into other relevant
  fora eg LSP, PCT, Funding Partnerships
• Invest in a quality Audit Strategy. They will
  write half your bids for you
• Consider the capacity of your CDRP to manage
  and deliver funding programmes
• Be focussed on your top priorities. Dont over
  bid
• Remember Match Funding, Output and Evaluation
  requirements
• Sustainability

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A Final ThoughtProjects

• Short term funding packages encourage projects
• Easington CDRP Action Plan identifies more than
  40 projects
• Will they all be rigourously evaluated and the
  lessons learned disseminated?
• How many will become part of mainstream activity
  for the partner agencies?
• Too much emphasis on project style development
• Explicit need for long term resourcing tied into
  well evidenced Audits Strategies
• Empowered, Resourced, Heads up, Accountable
  Partnerships with clear goals objectives

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Questions
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