Community Budgets weekly update
Community Budget news
At the LG Group annual conference there will be a session exploring the new public service models that are emerging – community budgets for families with complex needs, local integrated services, early intervention pilots and payment by results. Speakers include:
- Rt Hon Greg Clark MP, Minister of State for Decentralisation
- Graham Allen MP, the Allen review
- Lord Victor Adebowale, Chief Executive, Turning Point
- Councillor Colin Barrow, Leader, London Borough of Westminster
Community Budgets, House of Commons briefing note
This briefing note, produced on the 23rd June for members of parliament sets out the background of Community Budgets and highlights recent activity in the House of Lords and Parliament.
DWP £200m European Social Fund provision for families with multiple problems
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have announced £200m European Social Fund provision to support families with multiple problems move towards employment. The ESF provision for families with multiple problems is expected to operate in tandem with local services, including family intervention services. The new approach will be financed through the European Social Fund (ESF) and has been designed to operate in tandem with existing local authority family intervention projects and work being done by the Department for Education, so that there is no duplication of effort. Local authorities will be key partners in delivering this provision – as they know families best, they will be responsible for identifying the families who will take part. More information will be shared when available.
Follow the Annual conference online
The LG Group annual conference starts today in Birmingham. The theme of the conference this year is Localism Works.
The conference has its own dedicated blog where you can follow the events as they unfold. The blog will give details of the emerging issues and provide summaries of discussions and sessions.
The conference also has a Twitter feed which is already updated regularly and will be the quickest way to find out what is happening during the conference. If you’re there and tweeting you can use the hash tag #lgconf11
Swindon’s Life programme
One Swindon partners have received a considerable amount of interest in the Life Programme that began to take shape in Swindon in partnership with Participle, a social enterprise, in 2009.
Until now it was felt to be too early to share the learning about the Life Programme, the Community Budgets context, its impact to date and the wider implications for organisational transformation. They would therefore like to invite you to join them for a morning to reflect on their journey so far on the morning of 13th July. For more information please contact Michelle Pretorius mpretorius@swindon.gov.uk
DotGovLabs goes public
The DotGovLabs Innovation Hub is part of the Cabinet Office Skunkworks programme, reporting to Mark O’Neill, CIO for DCMS and DCLG, backed by Francis Maude and with wide participation from across government. It goes live to the public this week as it pursues its aims to nurture digital innovation from outside government from the people who know digital. It is the part of the skunkworks programme that looks to ask the external community to show government what it should be doing with digital.
You can get involved here.
‘Total Transport’
This report by pteg sets out transport’s vital role in achieving key health, social care and employment policy goals and argues that, in order to maintain and maximise this contribution, there is a need for a more collaborative, cross-sector approach to the funding and delivery of transport interventions.
The press release is here and the report itself – ‘Total Transport – Working across sectors to achieve better outcomes’ is available here.
Fix my transport
FixMyTransport, the latest project from mySociety, allows passengers to report issues on any public transport in the UK – train, bus, underground, tram, or coach.
The project is still in development and they hope to be up and running in a few weeks time. You can keep up to date and offer assistance here.
Health Profiles
Health Profiles is the Department of Health’s programme to improve availability and accessibility to heath and health-related information in England. They give a snapshot overview of health for each local authority in England. Health Profiles are produced annually by the Public Health Observatories in England working in partnership and are commissioned by the Department of Health.
The Localism Bill
This document summarises each of the main ideas proposed in the Bill, and explains the overall difference that they could make.
And lastly … a nice little story by ‘We Love Local Government’; being proud of the failures.
