Solihull Local Area Agreement Stakeholder Event 7 September 2006

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Solihull Local Area AgreementStakeholder Event
7 September 2006
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WelcomeCouncillor Mrs Diana Holl-Allen
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Overview of Local Area AgreementsChris Allen
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Solihulls Local Area AgreementThe Four Blocks
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Children and Young People Block

• Phil Mayhew
• Service Director, Social Regeneration and
  Learning Strategy

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Process

• Proposals developed by the Childrens Trust
  Operational Group - (includes SMBC, PCT, LSC,
  Vol. Sector, Connexions)
• Criteria for key issues
• Priority in Children and Young Peoples Plan
• Priority in APA
• Multi-agency dimension
• Informal advice from GOWM
• Impact - where we can make a real difference

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Targets

• Be Healthy
• Teenage pregnancy
• Drug and alcohol misuse
• Healthy School programme (increasing pace and
  including early years and childrens centres)
  proposed stretch target
• Staying Safe
• Parenting support (including role out of
  Childrens Centres)
• Increasing number of in-Borough placements
• Improving timescales for initial and core
  assessments
• Reduction in bullying

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Targets

• Enjoy and Achieve
• Closing gaps in attainment (eg North/South)
• Educational attainment of looked after children
• Development of alternative curriculum
  opportunities including 14 to 19 diplomas
• Children Missing Education Proposed stretch
  target
• Economic Well Being
• Decreasing the number of young people Not in
  Education and Training (NEETs) with a focus on
  Level 2 Attainment and Year 11 disaffection
  Proposed stretch target

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Target Areas

• Making A Positive Contribution
• Reducing re-offending
• Effective support at key transition points for
  young people
• Volunteering
• Access to Services
• Increased participation by young people in
  leisure, sport and arts activities proposed
  stretch target
• improving access to leisure opportunities
• improving play opportunities (play strategy)

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Safer and Stronger Communities Block

• Jeanette McGarry
• Corporate Director of Community Services

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Outcome 1 Reduce overall crime by 17.5
(Mandatory)

• Action
• Reducing the number of incidents of vehicle
  crime, domestic burglaries, criminal damage,
  personal robbery and violent crime
• Reassure public by reducing the fear of crime
• Reduce the number of deliberate fires

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Outcome 1 Reduce the harm caused by illegal
drugs

• Action
• Reduce peoples perceptions of local drug dealing
• Increase treatment for drug users
• Reduce the supply of drugs

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Outcome 2 To build respect in communities and
reduce ASB

• Action
• Involve communities in identifying and tackling
  problems through implementation of neighbourhood
  management
• Reduce ASB through the delivery of Solihull ASB
  strategy
• Working with School and cultural services to
  raise awareness of good citizenship

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Outcome 3 To have cleaner, greener and safer
public spaces

• Action
• Increase residents satisfaction with their
  neighbourhood through good neighbourhood planning
  and consultation and through the introduction of
  neighbourhood working
• Improve cleanliness of surroundings e.g. by the
  proactive removal of graffiti. litter and action
  in respect of fly tipping

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Outcome 4 Improve quality of life for
disadvantaged neighbourhoods, responding to needs
and improve on service delivery

• Action
• Increase residents satisfaction with their
  neighbourhood
• Reduce teenage conceptions
• Increase employment
• Increase household income
• Increase entrepreneurship

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Outcome 5 To increase capacity of local
communities by empowering them

• Action
• Ensure systems are put into place to increase the
  involvement of communities in in the local
  decision making process
• Increase community cohesion
• Increase volunteering
• Improve capacity of VCS

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Proposed Stretch Targets

• Prioritise action and resources to tackle
  Criminal Damage in our neighbourhood
  decision making process
• Address rising levels of robbery within the
  Borough by targeted action
• Increase leisure and cultural activities and
  their take-up for young people to enrich lives,
  help close the gap of inequality reduce crime
  and asb.
• Support for a Credit Union

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Healthier Communities and Older People Block

• Dennis Wilkes
• Director of Public Health

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UNDERSTAND THE DRIVERS
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PRIORITY ACTION AREAS

• Improved Living Environment
• Reduced Unemployment and Improved Income
• Early Years Support for Children and Families
• Improved Educational Development and Skills
  Attainment
• Improved Access to Key Services
• Reducing Risks for Developing Heart Disease and
  Cancer, particularly smoking.

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Improved Living Environment

• The number of homes with internal conditions
  likely to exacerbate respiratory ill health
• Fuel poverty
• Serious accidental injury requiring hospital
  admission for more than three days

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Reduced Unemployment and Improved Income

• Reduce the proportion of working age people out
  of work for more than a year
• Reduce the numbers of people living in relative
  poverty

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Early Years Support for Children and Families

• THE CHILDREN YOUNG PEOPLE PLAN
• THE LAA BLOCK INDICATORS AND TARGETS

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Improved Educational Development and Skills
Attainment

• Reduction in the educational attainment gap
  between schools and vulnerable groups of young
  people
• Wider participation in adult and community
  learning to include previous non learners and
  those with extra needs

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Improved Access to Key Services

• Local People are routinely involved in decisions
  about services
• Multiple Gateways into a range of services to
  reduce access barriers
• The sites of opportunities to promote good health
  or delivering health and social care services are
  planned to deliberately reduce inequities

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Reducing Risks for Developing Heart Disease and
Cancer, particularly smoking

• Proven determinants of disease are tackled.
• Disease is detected early and treated.
• Evidence based care pathways for diagnosis,
  treatment and care of those with heart disease
  and cancer in order to improve the quality of
  life and avoid premature death

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Proposed Stretch Targets

• BREAST FEEDING
• DIRECT PAYMENTS scheme to those in need of
  continuing social care support

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Economic Development Enterprise Block

• Rachel Westwood and Lachlan Smith

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• Context
• Economic growth businesses and jobs
• Growth potential enterprise, inward investment,
  jobs
• Competing in a global economy
• Inequality North Solihull disadvantaged groups
• Incapacity Benefits claimants
• Lone Parents
• Long term unemployment
• Lack of skills/qualifications
• Low levels of self-employment

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• Community Strategy Priorities
• Helping people into work
• Encouraging businesses into the Borough
• Assisting business start-ups
• Ensuring people are taken out of poverty
• Better housing and further regeneration

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• Priorities
• Increasing employment disadvantaged groups
• Increasing skills skills assessments
  construction training employer commitment
• Increasing investment jobs, recruitment and
  training support
• Increasing enterprise businesses started
• New housing working with Birmingham
• Two stretch targets proposed

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• Proposed Stretch Target Increasing Enterprise
• Lower levels of self-employment GB 9.2
  Solihull 8.7 W Midlands 8.1 Chelmsley Wood
  3.9
• 2005/06 19 business starts recorded, with 2 in
  North Solihull
• 2005/06 8 of Birmingham Solihull starts in
  Solihull 16 population
• Limited resources and support
• Local wealth and job creation
• Without stretch 40 new businesses 6 in North
  Solihull
• With stretch 75 new businesses 30 in North
  Solihull

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• Proposed Stretch Target Increasing Employment
• Higher levels of Worklessness than rest of
  Solihull and West Midlands (U/E rate North
  Solihull 5.6, Solihull 2.2, West Midlands 3.4)
• Existing LPSA target has demonstrated need within
  specific disadvantaged groups
• Intensive support to be focused on priority
  groups including 16-18 year olds, Incapacity
  Benefit Claimants, Ex-offenders.
• Stretch target 150 supported into employment
  with sustainability element to target.
• Target Increasing Employment

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Solihull Local Area Agreement - OverviewRichard
Honeysett, Assistant Chief Executive
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Open SessionYour comments and feedbackChris
Allen
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Concluding comments