National policy and Comprehensive Spending Review headlines

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National policy and Comprehensive Spending Review
headlines

• Kevin Brady

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National Policy Movements

• Localism Bill
• The bill describes the governments approach of
  guided localism. Its proposals include
  planning reform, a general power of competence
  for local government, the power for local people
  to trigger referenda and the community right to
  buy and right to challenge.
• Health and Social Care Bill
• The bill proposes the abolition of primary care
  trusts and strategic health authorities. GP
  consortia will take on responsibility for
  commissioning, with other public health
  authorities passed to local authorities.
• Welfare reform
• A large number of reforms are proposed, including
  the introduction of Universal Credit, changes to
  housing benefit and council tax benefit and
  changes to other benefits such as Incapacity
  Benefit and Income Support.
• Focus on transparency
• For example, councils required to publish
  spending over 500.

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National Policy Movements

• Education reform
• Reforms include a review of the national
  curriculum, introduction of free schools and
  extension of the Academy programme and
  introduction of the pupil premium. Educational
  Maintenance Allowance is to be abolished and
  tuition fees are being reformed.
• Civil society
• The Coalition programme includes support for
  social action, mutuals and co-operatives.
• Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill
• The Bill proposes directly elected Police and
  Crime Commissioners and the abolition of Police
  Authorities.
• Social housing reform
• White paper proposes changes to social housing
  system, including tenure, management of waiting
  lists and the homelessness duty.

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Comprehensive Spending Review

• Headline funding announcements
• a 28 cut to local government funding over the
  next 4 years,
• Cuts to council funding front loaded
• a 20 cut to police funding over the next 4
  years,
• a 25 cut to fire funding over the next 4 years,
• Cuts to fire funding back loaded
• Additional 2bn per annum by 2014/15 for adult
  social care (split health/local government)
• over 4bn of revenue grants transferred to
  formula grant by 2014/15,
• reducing ring-fenced grants from 90 to 10 from
  2011/12,
• freezing council tax for 4 years with a 2.5
  incentive grant.

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Comprehensive Spending Review

• Community Budgets
• First 16 community budgets, which includes
  Greater Manchester, rolled out from 2011/12 for
  families and complex needs
• New Homes Bonus
• Intended to incentivise local authorities and
  communities to support housing growth.
• Giving communities the right to buy or run public
  assets and services that might otherwise close or
  face significant reductions
• 470m to support capacity building in the
  voluntary and community sector

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• In the current economic climate it is more
  important than ever that the region speaks with
  one voice so we can make the strongest possible
  case for resources and investment
• Lord Peter Smith, Chair of AGMA

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The Greater Manchester Combined Authority

• The first of its type in the country
  operational April 2011
• New powers from Whitehall to work more
  effectively on transport, regeneration and
  economic development
• More control locally over the issues that affect
  us all
• Will provide the robust governance arrangements
  we need to drive private sector growth and plan
  in a coordinated way to deliver growth

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The Greater Manchester Local Enterprise
Partnership (LEP)

• Designed to support business and local
  authorities to grow the local private sector,
  tackle major barriers to growth and develop
  shared strategies for the local economy to
  increase job creation
• Currently in shadow form immediate focus on
  establishing the full LEP
• GM LEP Bid for Round 1 Regional Growth Fund (RGF)
  submitted to Government January 2011 will
  create over 10,000 jobs and generate additional
  investment of 297m

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• Local Government Settlement For
• Salford City Council

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Impact on Salford (2)2011/12 Spending
Requirement vs. Available Resources

• Spending Requirement
• Base Budget 230.8m
• Inflation 6.7m
• Loss of Specific Grants 49.7m
• - comprising
• Area Based Grant 38.4m
• Childrens 10.5m
• Adult Social Care 0.8m
• NHS grant transfers 10.7m
• Childrens Servs pressures 4.5m
• Early pension costs 3.5m
• -----------
• 305.9m

• Total Available Resources
• Council Tax 91.6m
• Formula Grant 135.4m
• Specific Grants 29.2m
• - comprising -
• Early Intervention 13.1m
• Learning Difficulties 7.1m
• NHS social care 3.6m
• Benefits Admin 2.9m
• Council Tax freeze 2.3m
• Homelessness 0.2m
• -----------
• 256.2m
• Funding Gap 49.7m
• (Savings Needed)

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Key themes of our approach

• Workforce reform
• Income generation
• Budget adjustments
• Collaboration
• Property
• Service / policy redesign
• Service reduction

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Analysis of Proposals accepted so far for consultation Analysis of Proposals accepted so far for consultation
Analysis by theme Amount ms
Workforce reform 1.199
Income generation 1.570
Budget adjustments 3.247
Collaboration with AGMA Authorities 1.317
Property 0.832
Service/Policy redesign 10.664
Service reduction 13.385
Total 32.214
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Partnership Priority Objectives

• Worklessness
• Child Poverty
• Health
• Community Safety