One Year On'

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One Year On.
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Overview

• Setting the scene
• Progress
• Looking forward
• Conclusions

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A state of mind

• To work together to deliver real outcomes for
  
• local communities
• To improve our reputation for delivery,
• collaborative leadership and partnerships
• To strengthen our voice in lobbying and
• influencing regionally and nationally

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Challenges

• Size and complexity of the County
• Sub-regions within sub-region
• Limited resources and capacity
• Intractable and knotty problems
• Differing ambitions and priorities

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Knotty issues

• Economy and Infrastructure
• Health inequalities
• Community cohesion
• Empowered neighbourhoods and the third
• sector
• Streetscene
• Efficiency (including procurement and shared
• services)

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Progress

• Community Cohesion
• Efficiencies/shared services, contributing to
• cashable gains of 118m in 2008/09
• Helping people back to work
• Developing MAAs
• Sharing good practice with more recognition

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Progress

• More trust, less icebergs
• Improved skills around collaboration
• Stronger cluster base
• Pump priming NWIEP funds acting as a
• catalyst for action and more funding

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Progress

• Members as Community Champions delivered
• more for less by securing other funding
• 240k of additional resources have been
• secured for projects in Blackpool and
  Lancaster
• Direct support for the new equality framework
• Successful member innovation projects
• Shared approaches to the recession

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Where next ?

• Focus on efficiencies and economy with
• additional NWIEP resources
• Working with partners to review/rationalise
• County architecture eg LEP, Comm Safety
• Members as Community Champions with an
• accredited University Certificate
• Focus on CAA/Organisational assessments

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Efficiency savings
2004/05 12m 2005/06
34m 2006/07
61m 2007/08
90m 2008/09
118m 2009/10 onwards ?
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A good start..but must try harder, work quicker
and do better