WELCOME TO NORTH SOMERSET COUNCIL Jo Walker, Chief Executive 8 May 2019
CORPORATE MANAGEMENT TEAM Jo Walker Chief Executive and Director of Corporate Services Lucy Shomali Sheila Smith Director of Director of Development and People and Environment Communities Vacant Director of Public Health Vacant Paul Morris Nick Brain Director of Head of Performance Head of Legal Finance Improvement and and Democratic Human Resources Services
ROLE OF COUNCILLORS • Represent your ward and the people who live in it • Provide a community leadership role • Contribute to the development of the council’s policies and strategies • Perform a regulatory role – e.g. determining planning and licensing applications • Uphold the standards of public office • Regulation and legislation
LIFE IN NORTH SOMERSET
LIFE IN NORTH SOMERSET ONE YEAR
LIFE IN NORTH SOMERSET ONE DAY
WHAT WE DO...
ADULTS • Commission adult social care support • Supporting people to live independently at home for longer • Learning disabilities and mental health services • Adults’ safeguarding and quality assurance
CHILDREN • Safeguarding • Community family teams • Fostering and adoption • Children in care and care leavers • Education inclusion • Early years and childcare • Disabled children • Youth offending team • Music service
HOUSING • Improving standards in private rented sector housing • Tackling and reducing homelessness • Commissioning additional supported housing for vulnerable people
PLACEMAKING AND GROWTH • Strategic planning e.g. Joint Spatial Plan • Development management • Regeneration of our town centres • Economic growth, inward investment, employment • Major projects supported by external funding e.g. MetroWest
NEIGHBOURHOOD MANAGEMENT • Recycling and waste • Highways • Street lighting • Leisure • Libraries • Parks and open spaces • Streetscene • Seafront and events
PUBLIC HEALTH AND REGULATORY SERVICES • Supporting the population of North Somerset to live more healthily and addressing health inequalities • Stop smoking services • Drugs and alcohol services • Healthy eating • Active lifestyles • Screening services • Supporting mental wellbeing • Regulatory services
CORPORATE SERVICES • Legal and democratic • Finance and property • Support services partnership • Marketing and communications • HR and performance improvement • Community safety • Emergency management • Business intelligence • Major projects
PARTNERSHIPS • Health • Blue light services • Service providers • Voluntary sector • Other local authorities, town and parish councils • Government agencies • Schools and colleges
POPULATION GROWING FASTER THAN Projected population growth 2016 -2041 From ENGLAND 211,500 16% to OR THE 14% 251,700 12% SOUTH WEST... England South West North Somerset Source : Office for National Statistics 2016 based sub-national projections
POPULATION 213,000 – more • than doubled North Somerset projected population growth since 1950s 251,700 increasingly older • 237,800 220,500 population 203,100 188,800 179,200 above average • both national and regional increase in numbers of young people also forecast 1991 2001 2011 2021 2031 2041
INEQUALITY North Somerset has the Range of Council inequality third largest range of 1 Sheffield inequality of all the 326 2 Newcastle upon Tyne districts in England. 3 North Somerset We have areas in the most 4 Wirral deprived 1% nationally, 5 Stockport and areas within the least 6 Bradford deprived 1% nationally. 7 East Riding of Yorkshire 8 Leeds 9 Bury 10 Chesterfield Index of multiple deprivation 2015
MOST DEPRIVED The parts of North Somerset which are in the MOST deprived 1% or 5% of areas nationally, are all in Weston- super-Mare. Index of multiple deprivation 2015
MOST AFFLUENT The parts of North Somerset which are in the LEAST deprived 1% or 5% of areas nationally, are spread across the area. Index of multiple deprivation 2015
RESIDENTS EARNING BUT EARNINGS FOR ABOVE AVERAGE JOBS IN NORTH SOMERSET BELOW Earnings by place of residence Earnings by place of work North Somerset South West Great Britain North Somerset South West Great Britain £600.00 £600.00 £550.00 £500.00 £500.00 £450.00 £400.00 £400.00 £ £ £350.00 £300.00 £300.00 £250.00 £200.00 £200.00 Nomis, from ONS annual survey
ECONOMIC GROWTH GVA per capita (balanced) West of England Change 2012 -2017 1998 -2017 North Somerset 16.3% 45 40 South Gloucestershire 15.4% 35 30 Bristol, City of 12.3% 25 20 Bath and North East -1.8% 15 Somerset 10 5 ONS, Regional gross value added (balanced) local authorities by NUTS1 region 0 Bristol, City of Bath and North East Somerset North Somerset South Gloucestershire
CHALLENGES FOR THE COUNCIL Increasing demand for services for vulnerable people Reducing Rising expectations of highways, government grant waste and other universal services
FINANCIAL CONTEXT • Austerity since 2010 - £100m+ revenue savings £10.8m savings / additional income included within 2019/20 revenue budget • • We are traditionally a low-spending council with very low council tax base • To protect frontline services as far as possible we need: sustainable local income streams • sustainable models for demand-led services • innovative, efficient and transformed services • commercial awareness within decision making. •
COUNCIL TAX 2019/20 Ave Band D Council Tax Charge in South West 2,000 1,800 1,600 1,400
FUNDING LANDSCAPE North Somerset Council - MTFP Resources & Council Tax Increases 160,000,000 7.00% 140,000,000 6.00% 120,000,000 5.00% 100,000,000 4.00% 80,000,000 3.00% 60,000,000 2.00% 40,000,000 1.00% 20,000,000 0.00% 0 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20 -20,000,000 -1.00% Locally Generated Resources Government Grant Income Use of Reserves Council Tax Increase
WHERE THE MONEY GOES Net Revenue Budget by directorate 2019-20 Capital financing and interest £11.3m 7% Non-service and precepts £8.3m 5% P&C – Adult Social Care £65.8m 42% Development & Environment £36.1m 23% Total net revenue budget £159m Corporate Services £6.7m 4% P&C - Housing £1.6m 1% P&C - Children’s Services £28.9m 18%
CORPORATE PLAN 2015-19 VISION AND AMBITIONS
VISION A great place to live where people, businesses and communities flourish. Modern, efficient services and a strong voice for North Somerset. Being a great place means ensuring three outcomes for the people of North Somerset: We have an ambitious vision for the area and for the Prosperity and opportunity organisation. This sums up what we want North Somerset to be like and the type of organisation we will Health and wellbeing need to be to deliver it. Quality places
OUTCOMES AND AMBITIONS The three outcomes are broad so we have identified specific ambitions for each outcome.
CASE STUDY Promoting wellbeing by helping people to be as • Maximising independence independent as possible for as long as possible Providing information, advice, guidance and signposting • to community resources Empowering communities and volunteers to play a bigger • role in supporting adults Strengths based assessment focusing on adults abilities and • potential Providing time-limited reablement to restore previous • function following illness Maximising independence through the use of • equipment/telecare/assistive technology Developing alternatives to residential and nursing care • Extra Care Housing • Supported Living • Shared Lives •
CASE STUDY Strategy to design services with digital first in mind, • Digital first underpinned by channel shift ambitions 10% channel shift achieved in 2018/19 in contact centres • and gateways Hundreds of options for customers to report online • delivered in last few years 76% of waste reports now made online • Average 500 web chats in Council Connect every month • Scanning and uploading options implemented for council • tax and benefits to stop customers having to bring or post evidence in
CASE STUDY Examination in Public between July and October this year • Joint Spatial Plan 25,000 homes, mainly across Nailsea, Backwell, Banwell, • Mendip Springs and Weston by 2036 + our share of over 80,000 jobs Complex regional exercise to deal with numbers, • affordable housing and infrastructure Plan-led approach is essential to delivering economic • growth, safeguarding the environment, securing infrastructure and defending appeals Not just about planning – we have an active role to • accelerate delivery and secure infrastructure
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