Preparing for CAA More like preparing for a marriage than a date

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Preparing for CAA More like preparing for a
marriage than a date but divorce is not
an option!
Julie FothergillKirklees Partnership Manager
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Halifax
Leeds Bradford
Manchester
Sheffield
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• The trial in Kirklees
• Lessons from the trial
• The key differences CPA to CAA
• Preparing for CAA
• Raising awareness
• CAA Lead - Managing the relationship
• Knowing our area
• Self Assessment
• Duty to involve
• LSP fit for the future?
• Performance management

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The trial in Kirklees

• Area Assessment
• Test out with Audit Commission
• Evidence file
• Community engagement
• Sustainability
• Constraints of the trial
• Time restriction
• Summer holiday
• Trial Area Assessment Report

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Lessons from the trial

• Difficulty of government departments and other
  inspectorates pulling partners in different
  direction from local priorities
• New skills and cultures required and patterns of
  working relationship
• Challenging the selection of LAA priorities
• Evidence file
• Importance of transparency
• Using national data and our local evidence
• Quality of our evidence and analysis
• Area Assessment Report aimed at public
• Focus on community aspirations

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The key differences - CPA to CAA

• Ongoing relationship not an event
• Focus on the area and on outcomes
• Increased expectations on all partners
• Higher expectations on collective knowledge,
  action and accountability
• Duty to Involve ( and understanding aspirations)
• Forward looking prospects for improvement
• Tags and flags

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Preparing for CAA

• Raising awareness
• The trial helped!
• Right level for the various audiences (across the
  partnership)
• Engage Councillors Executive, Scrutiny,
  political groups
• CAA reference group and project team

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CAAL - Managing the relationship
How will you manage your relationship with your
CAAL to evidence that your partnership is
delivering, and will continue to deliver, for
your area? But . there is a 3rd party in this
relationship
CAA
GOYH
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Knowing our area on an ongoing basis

• Picture of Kirklees
• Annual Picture of Kirklees Conference
• The Kirklees Observatory
• Develop and present a clearer picture of the
  quality of life across Kirklees
• Locality and topic specific
• Improve data collection and sharing

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Collective knowledge of ourselves

• Do partners know each others strengths and
  weaknesses?
• How robust is self evaluation and self criticism?
• Partnership self-evaluation
• But light touch and part of routine rather than
  periodic big exercises

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Self assessment

• Start with our key challenges
• Recession, climate change growing elderly
  population
• Educational attainment
• Low skills low wage economy
• Health Inequalities
• Regeneration of some towns
• Community relations in some areas

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Assessing the Duty to Involve

• Stock-take of how the council and its partners
  involve communities
• Identify gaps
• Joining up community involvement across partners
• Aspirations

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Is your LSP fit for the future?

• How well does the LSP collectively
• Understand and assess the needs of its
  communities, now and in the future?
• Use this understanding to inform its local
  priorities?
• Organise itself and ensure it has the capacity to
  deliver these priorities?
• Ensure effective arrangements to identify and
  manage the risks to achieving priority outcomes?

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Moving the Kirklees Partnership up a gear!

• Real sense of pride but
• Formal meetings stifling creative thinking
• Trying to do too much
• Need shared and collective knowledge
• Added value

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New Structure from September 2008
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Performance management across the partnership

• CAA internally driven improvement
• Able to evidence your improvement
• Good quality quantitative and qualitative data
• Use to inform commissioning and driving future
  action

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Where are the overlaps?
15 local PIs
20 other existing commitments performance
measured by PCT
LAA 69 total
Vital signs 64 total
8 (8 in the 35)
31 (16 in the 35)
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6 (6 in the 35)
APACS 35 total
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1
7 (5 in the 35)
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1
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Place survey 19
Other Police returns / PIs
NIS 198 total (237 including parts!)
Other council returns / PIs
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Kirklees PCT
WY Police Authority
Cabinet
KP Executive
Trust Board
Force Command
Executive Management
Executive Management

• Analysis
• Response
• Quarterly
• Monthly
• Weekly
• Daily

LPSBs

• Analysis
• Response
• Quarterly
• Monthly

• Analysis
• Response
• Quarterly

• Analysis
• Response
• Quarterly

Health Care Commission
CDRP Home Office
Vital Signs Indicators
National Indicator Set
APACS Indicators
LAA Indicators
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Kirklees Partnership Executive - highlights,
exceptions and risks
Quarterly - cross partner performance teams meet
National Indicator Set
LAA Indicators
Vital Signs Indicators
APACS Indicators
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No more preparation

• Building further on our Picture of Kirklees
• Improving and integrating performance management
  across the Partnership
• Initiating a programme of self assessment
• Improve how we keep and have access to key
  documents collect and share evidence
• It should just become the day job!