The Future Borough Strategy Putting community resilience at its heart Thinking about the way forward
Recap of Strategy
Background • Created in 2010/11 • Set of goals, ambitions and actions • Owned and led by LSP • Long term vision – 10 to 20 years • Aims to balance economic, social & environmental wellbeing • Created ‘A Vision for Hounslow 2030: Develop the borough to be distinctive, vibrant and thriving, with a happy, high achieving community at its heart
Future Borough Strategy in context…
Future Borough strategy in a slide… Vision Distinctive, vibrant & thriving borough with a happy, high achieving community Ambition projects People Place Economy 1. Safe borough 1. Attractive, well-designed, 1. Attractive for investment & sustainable with accessible business 2. Healthy independent lives infrastructure & services. 2. Better educated and skilled 3. Tackled inequalities 2. Use & protect built & natural workforce 4. Confident, responsible environment 3. More & better local children 3. Reduce environmental impact employment for residents 5. Active citizens Leadership 1. Place people enjoy living & choose to stay 2. Coordinated action as partners 3. Local public services through partnerships
Leadership Live in a borough where people enjoy living and choose to • stay throughout their lives Take coordinated action as partners to tackle the key local • challenges which affect us all Deliver local public services through seamless, responsive, efficient • partnerships. Measures: 1. % residents satisfied with local area as a place to live 2. % stakeholders who think the partnership is working to tackle cross-cutting issues 3. Savings realised through partnership work
People 1. live in a borough safe from crime, disorder and danger 2. live healthier, more independent lives 3. tackled inequalities and improved the life chances of vulnerable people & families 4. children will have the best start in life , growing into confident individuals and responsible citizens 5. active citizens , involved in volunteering and engaged in our strong, vibrant and united community. Measures: 1. By the reduction of violent crime 2. % residents who think the police and council work together on the issues that matter in area 3. Reduce all cause mortality rates for persons under 75 years 4. Narrow gap on key deprivation indicators between the best and worst performing parts of the borough 5. Narrow attainment gap between those children receiving free school meals and their peers 6. % of residents who regularly volunteer
Place 1. live in an attractive, well designed, sustainable borough with good access to infrastructure and services. 2. enjoy and maximise use of our built and natural environment - protecting and enhancing it 3. reduce our impact on the environment and protect ourselves from its effects Measures: 1. %residents who identify their local town centre as improving 2. Improved street cleanliness: levels of litter and detritus 3. Reducing borough wide carbon emissions
Economy 1. attractive borough in which to invest and do business 2. will be better educated and more skilled 3. more and better local employment opportunities for residents of the borough . Measures: 1. Increasing levels of inward investment by monitoring business rates 2. Number residents aged over 16 qualified at level 2 or above 3. % local residents employed in the borough
Ambition Projects Green high tech industry Town Centres • Identify opportunities for green high • Develop plans & proposals for tech industry (part of inward regeneration of Hounslow & investment strategy) Brentford town centres • S upport for ‘green’ business startup • Support development of and ‘green’ social enterprise neighbourhood forums and plans in interested local areas University borough • Promote ‘Campus Hounslow’ & raise Leisure/Performance awareness of local higher education provision venue • Complete feasibility study on attracting an international university • Identify a site for a venue to establish local campus • Begin talks with providers • Identify potential site for a new campus in the borough
Previous Review 2012 Annual review on purpose of HT highlighted satisfaction with: How the Board had been launched in 2011 strategic development of the Future Borough Strategy HT ability to look at the ‘whole of Hounslow’ point of view Board Members commitment and alignment to the strategy. Issues of understanding and clarifying of HT were also raised: × After the initial enthusiasm, sense of clarity & purpose waned, impacting on commitment to the strategy. × Questions raised on where/how HT was adding value - was it about the overview or the detail? Ways forward • clarify purpose of Board and its members, • Share information and work planning • Focus on single cross-cutting topics which add value & bring partners’ skills together
2014 Audit • 19 Feb 2017: Progress assessment against action Plan • 30 April 2017: Contextual factors and changes Decision to develop community resilience project
Community Resilience • Community Resilience Measure and Cranford Stronger came out of the identified focus on resilience in CST & Community Resilience measure the face of high population growth, churn & change Project outcomes • Testing ground for learning about which relationship matter, how many, with whom etc. Policy outcomes • In March 2017 HT Board suggest looking at the implications for policy and strategy
Key question: Relationships? Friends Work/school Family Household Competence Emotional fragility Individua l Personal attributes, Isolation OUTCOMES FOR PEOPLE heath, age beliefs, ? e.g. Health, Social Care, Neighbourhood support Neighbourhood Situated in a geographical area PLACE Community Organisations Parks, leisure centres, planning, Environment: roads, waste removal Meeting spaces, facilities, parks, schools, walkable spaces Wellbeing Basis for Strategy
Working from the project information ? What relationships matter and how do we support them? Categorising relationships Bonds Attachments Transactions (very close) (close) (Not close) Where there is high affective Where there is some emotional Where there is no significant Emotional Content Who (or where) do you go to if you want content e.g. ‘a shoulder to cry content/ value- has to do with being emotional content or values on’. a ‘good neighbour’, colleague, group attached to relationships. to discuss any problems and get advice member, faith group member (Will probably not be mention in SN (belonging) Analysis) Social content Where there are reciprocal Some sociability in public space but Cheerful greetings with little desire Who are the people (and groups/services) visits to homes or rarely extends to extensive or regular for more extended sociability. engagement in social social activities (Maintaining respectful distance) you most enjoy socialising and spending activities. time with ? Financial/practical/status/ information outcomes Practical Regular and extensive Practical but intermittent support Someone who may provide small, Who gives you every day practical help practical support e.g. e.g. keeping an eye on children often reciprocal acts of practical when you need it such as putting up a childcare, shopping, fix assistance (Will probably not be something mention in SN Analysis) shelf, or picking up shopping/prescription Financial Direct financial help May be able to borrow a fiver but it Someone who may provide small o If you lost your purse or wallet and may be difficult to ask amounts in an absolute emergency needed to borrow money from someone, (Will probably not be mention in SN who could you ask Analysis) Local Information Person/group who is very Neighbour or person who is locally Someone/a group/service who you o Who are the people you would go to, to close but also knows whats conneced also knows whats don ’t know well but you kno w you find out what is happening in the happening locally happening locally can ask them community? o Where/who do you go to get useful information? (e.g. Services that are available )
What's next?
LBH preparing Rationale for review for a new corporate plan HT asked team to look at CST and community resilience implications for policy Strategy due for a review HT has oversight of the in 2015 Future Borough Strategy JSNA evidence base Local and Peer national challenge changes suggestions since 2011
Issues to consider in review • New information/evidence – Demographic changes and developments – New updated evidence JSNA – Changes in national and local policy environment – Local Plan • New suggestions/proposals from Peer Challenge – Enhance the shared vision and identity for the borough, reflecting the needs of residents, employers and new investors • New research/ thinking – Community Resilience – Cranford Stronger together
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