ONE SWINDON PARTNERSHIP
Welcome to the One Swindon
Conference
20th July 2012
Tom Charnock
Chair of One Swindon Partnership
Overview & Monitoring Group
Cllr Roderick Bluh
Chair of One Swindon Partnership
and Leader of the Council
Richmond Fellowship Okus Area Residents
British Red
Association
SBC
Cross
Wiltshire Police
JCP
Wiltshire
Probation
Walcot & Parks Community
Trust
Group
GWH NHS Trust
VAS
The Salvation Army
Green
Square
Group
Swindon
CAB
Wiltshire Fire & Rescue
Service
Sixth Sense Theatre for
Young People
Highworth
Town
Council
NHS Swindon
Forward
Swindon
Swindon Carers Centre
Parents and
Carers
Advisory
Group
Horizons
Well-being
Centre
Groundwork
South West
Swindon
Advocacy
Movement
Swindon
Academy
Highworth
Community
Partnership
Natural England
Rethink
Swindon Local involvement network
Voluntary Arts England
Penhill
Forum
Thamesdown
Islamic
Association
Nationwide
Building
Society
Wiltshire & Swindon
Users Network
Volunteer Centre
Swindon
Swindon Civic
Voice
Swindon Childrens Trust
Board
BME
Forum
Jubilee Street Party
organisers
Wiltshire
Wildlife
Trust
The Smash
Youth
Swindon
Project
Tenants
Voice
Charities Information Bureau
Swindon Hazara
Community
Swindon 105.5
Swindon Advertiser
Highworth Recreation
Centre Trust
Swindon Older
Peoples Forum
Community Foundation for
Wiltshire & Swindon
Bampton Grove
Swindon Youth
Forum
Walcot East & Park
North Community
Association
Swindon &
Wiltshire
Pharmaceutical
Committee
Volkerhighways
Total Swindon
Gorse Hill Baptist
Church
Chat for
Action
Tenants Association
for Sheltered Housing
(TASH)
RNIB
Queens Drive
Methodist Church
Supporting People
User Group
Dorcan Church
Sanctuary Housing
Oakhurst Residents
Association
Tenant Scrutiny Panel
Swindon
Sanctuary for
Sexual Assault
Referral
Bromford Housing
SHoUT Service
Swindon Asian
Women Association
Shaw Residents
Association
Queen’s Park
Community Garden
Gavin Jones
Chief Executive,
Swindon Borough Council
Why are there cuts to public funding
and how might it affect Swindon?
One Swindon Conference
20th July 2012
SBC : The Big Priorities
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Economic growth
Neighbourhoods that are clean and well cared for
Closer to people and communities
Preventing or delaying vulnerability
Maximise effectiveness and further drive efficiency
Traditional Rhythm
Seek to respond to demand
Offer ‘our’ solutions
Shaped to optimise funds
Our ‘organisation’ is a significant determinant of
services provided
Corporate agenda is at the heart of what we do
In the Future
Seek to influence and shape demand
create solutions together
Shaped to optimise outcomes (within clear
financial framework)
Services are determined by a rich body of
evidence, data and professional insight.
Locality is at the heart of what we do
We set priorities and deliver services and support
Communities influence priorities, contribute to
delivery and share responsibility for outcomes
Solutions delivered through multiple) functions, in
silos
Respond to presenting issues…. focus on issue
resolution
Solutions coordinated in Locality
Respond to insights based on the ‘whole picture’ …
balanced investment in prevention as well as issue
resolution
Join up at Corporate plan level
Creates dependency
Join up between locality and corporate level –
decision is taken at the most appropriate level
Builds capability and capacity
THANK YOU
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Localism:
Jonathan Carr-West
Director, lgiu
The significant problems we
face can not be solved
at the same level of thinking
we were at when we created
them.
why localism matters
• cuts
• community
• complexity
Cuts
If I spend somebody else’s money
on somebody else, I’m not
concerned about how much it is,
and I’m not concerned about what I
get. And that’s government.
Milton Friedman
community
No man is an island entire of itself; every man
is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if
a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is
the less, as well as if a promontory were, as
well as any manner of thy friends or of thine
own were; any man's death diminishes me,
because I am involved in mankind. And
therefore never send to know for whom the bell
tolls; it tolls for thee.
John Donne
complexity
because individual judgement is
not accurate enough or consistent
enough, cognitive diversity is
essential to good decision making
James Surowiecki
localism act
“Today marks the beginning of an historic
shift of power from Whitehall to every
community to take back control of their
lives.
The Localism Act pulls down the Whitehall
barricades so it will no longer call the shots
over communities”
localism act
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general power of competence
abolition of the standard board
greater local control of business rates
community right to challenge
community right to bid
directly elected mayors
right to approve or veto excessive council tax
rise
• abolition of regional planning strategies
• neighbourhood planning
• community right to build
localism act
•community right to bid
•community right to
challenge
challenges
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'demand side'
accountability
relationship to local government
fit with strategic planning
The significance of
crises is the indication
they provide that an
occasion for retooling
has arrived
Sometimes
societies fail….
If you're not failing
every now and again,
it's a sign you're not
doing anything very
innovative
Table Exercise (20 mins)
How can we bring
localism to life in
Swindon?
Q&A
Jonathan Carr-West