Transcript Ensuring devolution brings a social dividend

Devolution in Greater
Manchester
October 2015
Alex Gardiner, New Economy
Greater Manchester Context
Outcomes include:
“We will be seen and experienced
as a city region where all people are
valued and are able to fully
participate in and benefit from the
city region’s success.”
“We will create a city region where
every resident, neighbourhood and
every borough can contribute to and
benefit from our shared sustainable
future.”
Our ambition
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A financially self-sustaining city region, sitting at the heart of the
Northern Powerhouse, with the size, assets, skilled population and
political and economic influence to rival any global city
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Driving sustainable growth across GM, and ensuring that all GM
residents are able to contribute to and benefit from that growth
– Creating the conditions for growth by making the best use of our land
supply and investing in our infrastructure and assets
– Increasing total productivity by improving the skills base of our
population and driving higher levels of business growth
– Helping our citizens to become independent and self-reliant, focusing
on person-centre delivery models to provide integrated programmes of
support, increasing the proportion of residents in work and helping them to
progress through work
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Our priorities are exemplified by the Northern Powerhouse: a strategy
that enables empowered City regions to collaborate through greater
connectivity, supporting the re-balancing of our national economy
GM Context
• GM is now “Officially the Most Exciting Place in the UK!”
The Guardian – 25th Feb 2015
• Significant acceleration towards GM Strategy goals
• Key milestones:
– Devolution Agreement signed in November 2014
– Health and Social Care MoU agreed in February 2015
• From a base of loose joint working on specific projects
towards formal collaboration on a wide range of issues
What is being devolved to GM?
Skills & Employment: GM has the power to
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reshape & re-structure GM’s Further Education provision with
government to ensure that the supply of skills in GM meets the needs
of businesses
jointly commission (with the Department for Work and Pensions) the
next phase of the Work Programme, giving us the influence to tailor
services to best meet the needs of our residents
Complex dependency: GM has the power to
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to scale up work on public service reform programme to provide the
intensive support to workless people and their families to help up to
50,000 people who have struggled to find work get into jobs
Services for children: GM has been invited to
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undertake a fundamental review of the way that all services for
children, exploring how existing budgets can be used more effectively
to deliver integrated and more efficient services
What is being devolved to GM?
Health: the MOU forges a new partnership between GM health and
social care bodies and NHS England so that from 2016 GM will have
• full devolution of all funding & decision making for health & social care
within GM
This will help GM to:
• deliver improved health & well being outcomes to support and enhance
GM’s priority of reducing worklessness and supporting people back into
employment
• plan for the integration of health and social care across Greater
Manchester, allowing us to use existing health and social care budgets to
invest in the community based care needed to support change
Delivering Devolution
• No doubt this is an exciting time for Greater Manchester
• Opportunity to make a real difference for our residents
and deliver our ambition at the GM and locality level
• But ….
• We need to rise to the challenge
• It will require us to work and think differently beyond our
organisational and professional boundaries
• Leadership of Place: how we develop our leadership
capacity collaboratively across the public sector
Continuing the devolution journey
• The existing deals represent significant progress towards
our overall ambition for GM
• But this is the start of our journey not the end
• The forthcoming Spending Review provides an
opportunity to explore further potential for devolution
• GM submission to the process around four key priorities:
– Ensuring GM has the critical infrastructure for growth
– Increasing productivity
– Building new relationships between citizens, the state and
society
– Fiscal reform
The role of VCS - opportunities
The Role of VCS in GM
• nearly 15,000 voluntary organisations
• the total income of the sector was £1 billion (financial
year 2011/12)
• medium and large organisations received 91 per cent of
the total sector income
• 11,963 organisations had an annual income of under
£10,000
• deliver 21.2 million interventions for people in Greater
Manchester each year
Place Based Working
• A different approach to place based delivery that:
– Generates a better response to incidents and to dealing with
things giving rise to those incidents
– Delivers the best outcomes for local people
– Creates better understanding and engagement between
partners and the community
– Develops better lines of communication and new approaches to
problem solving
– Results in more effective use of resources for all agencies
• Building on existing multi agency working to develop
innovative ways of working within the context of our
devolution commitments
Growth and productivity
• As employers - very local approaches can be designed at
a district and neighbourhood level
• Supporting social innovation
• New opportunities - City of Science
• Part of a cluster at the heart of Northern Powerhouse
Reform and resident engagement
• Opportunities through devolution – early intervention,
prevention, and increased resilience
• Feed into services delivered to schools, young people,
families, children and old people
• Embed VCS organisations in commissioning structures
Place
• Contribute to the attractiveness of the city as a place to
live, work and visit
• As anchor institution
• GM Leadership