Accessing Supporting People Funding

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Accessing Supporting People Funding

• Emily Skeet Adela Salt
• Strategy Development Team, Supporting People

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Seminar outline

• What have we developed in last 2 years
• The pilot projects lessons learnt where we go
  now.
• Funding Routes 2006-08
• How to apply for funding
• Question Answer session

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Developments so far

• 1 x high risk offenders service
• 4 x Young Persons Services
• 4 x Very sheltered housing schemes
• 1 x Substance Misuse floating support
• 4 x Domestic Violence services
• 1 x Learning Disabilities scheme
• Pilot projects

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Pilot Projects

• 11 short term projects catering for
• Women at risk of domestic violence
• People with mental health issues
• People with learning disabilities
• Older people with support needs
• Excluded families
• 2 catering specifically for BME groups
• Originally planned for 6 months extension to
  end September 2005 to allow for evaluation

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Pilot Projects

• Wanted evaluation to be impartial
• Dr Pat Chambers Senior Lecturer in Social Work
  at Keele University
• Work in progress and using
• Original bids for funding
• Client Record Form returns
• Performance Monitoring returns
• Evaluation form
• Telephone interviews with key staff
• SP Team approach to process

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Pilot Projects

• Evaluation completed by end June and will
  include
• Assessment and Recommendations for each
  individual project
• Details of scoring matrix used for the above
• Assessment of approach taken by SP team
• Production of evaluation toolkit for future
  short-
• term projects introduced through SPiINS
  (details
• in Staffs 5 Year Strategy)

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Using the Findings of the Evaluation

• Whether any services are to be given the
• opportunity to continue
• Whether there is a need for such a
• service in the future
• Help to improve SP team approach and to
• introduce set procedures for SPiINS
• developments (see Staffs 5 Year Strategy)
• Enable future evaluations to be carried out by
• SP team through use of evaluation toolkit and
• scoring matrix

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Funding Routes 2006-08

• Planned we will tender for Green Priority
  Services through National Press.
• Responsive
• Annual Bidding round
• Responding to identified need/ review findings
• 2006/7 we will identify types of services we want
  to receive bids for.
• SPiiNS Annual bidding round for new
  innovative services that test/ measure need (1
  year funding only)

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What happens now?

• Request Tender pack following advert (planned)
• Request application form and guidance notes
  (Available September 2005)
• All tenders to be assessed by stakeholder panel
  successful applicant agreed following
  presentation.
• Responsive Spiins applications to be assessed
  by investment Development sub group (decision
  made by October 2005) for services to start 1st
  April 2006.