Voluntary Sector Intelligence
and Joint Strategic Needs
Assessments
Webinar- 16 December 2013
#VCSJSNA
Becca Spavin
Becca Spavin currently works on the
Voluntary and Community Sector Programme
for the Department of Health. This programme
includes overseeing the Strategic Partner
programme which has set up this Learning
Event.
Having worked in the Department for a
decade Becca has been involved in a number
of policies including the establishment of
Foundation Trusts, diagnostic workforce,
access to primary care and has worked in a
Ministers private office and gone on
secondment to the NHS in the East Midlands.
By the end of this webinar
participants will be able to:
• Be more influential in local health
strategies, through the JSNA
• Use evidence you already have to
influence strategy, through the JSNA
• Consider what evidence may be available
elsewhere or that you may want to collect
in order to influence health strategies
From Wakefield…
Helen Laird is the Engagement & Capacity Building Team
Manager, Public Health, Wakefield Council.
John Wilcox John is a Health Improvement Specialist in the
Wakefield Council Public Health Engagement and Capacity Building
Team, a role which involves working to embed public health
principals throughout the council and its partners. Prior to this he
work for more than 10 years a variety of community development
and community regeneration posts supporting numerous community
and voluntary sector organisations in former Coalfield Communities.
Jo Davies is a professionally qualified youth worker. She graduated
from Durham University in 1998. She worked in social research at
the University and since then, with young people, for Barnardos and
a local authority youth service. Her experience includes working
with vulnerable young people who were homeless, not in education,
employment or training and disadvantaged through location and
poverty in settings including generic youth work, an intensive
alternative to education and employment and a mobile unit.
Local voluntary and
community sector
organisations working with
public health in Wakefield
Helen Laird and John Wilcox, Wakefield Council
Jo Davis, The Youth Work Company
16 December 2013
Why?
Third Sector Strategy:
Maximising opportunities for the sector to share and
collaborate expertise, resources and delivery for
the benefit of Wakefield’s communities to:
• Co-design and co-deliver local services;
• Harness the capacity, skills and energies of local
people to grow community based action
• Foster more strategic relations with the business
and public sectors
Why?
The projects
This presentation focuses on five key projects:
• Health & Wellbeing Board
• Social Research Pilot Project
• TAP into Change4Life Evaluation Project
• Multiple Health Behaviors Project
• Wakefield Hack Day
Health & Wellbeing Board
• 2011 - JSNA Engagement
Events
• 2012 – Health & Wellbeing
Strategy: Consultation and
delivery (Priorities and
Approaches)
• Members on Board
• Board Priorities e.g.
Integration
www.wakefield.gov.uk/hwb
Social Research Pilot Project
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To pilot the use of VCS organisations
commissioned using the Wakefield
District Wellbeing Consortium to collect
robust health and wellbeing data from
specific groups and communities.
Collect data around the perceptions of
parents as to how healthy their
children's lifestyle is.
Wakefield TAP into
Evaluation Project
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To collect data on health related behaviours from
residents of three deprived areas targeted by the TAP
into Change 4 Life (TAP) programme. Use this data to
evaluate the effectiveness the TAP programme.
TAP was an area based initiative which
aimed to help tackle health inequalities
in three areas by encouraging people
to make small lifestyle changes,
become healthier and reduce levels
of obesity and related illness.
Multiple Health Behaviours
Project
To identify:
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Factors that influence take up of
risky behaviours What helps
people overcome the risky
behaviours
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Barriers that prevent people from
changing
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The impact of one behaviour
changing on another
Wakefield Hack day
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A half day workshop which aimed to used the
data and stories held by VCS organisations to
capture knowledge of the specific social group
“pressured parents.”
Provide a process to feed this information into the
Wakefield JSNA
Public Health as a Resource to
the Voluntary Sector
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JSNA – data for funding bids
Capacity Building – e.g.
Evaluation Support e.g. TAP
and Creative Partners
Advocacy – Third Sector
Strategy / PH Heads of Service
Building Health Partnerships –
social prescribing, social value
Learning
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VCS organisations are not all the same
• You may be working with a great variety of different individuals and organisations
“keep it simple” – less opportunity for misunderstanding to arise
Don’t limit yourself to large organisation
Be aware of varied assets and limitations of the organisations you are working with
VCS organisations are not a “cheap alternative” to a market research agency
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Learning and development key
• VCS organisations are not a “cheap alternative” to a market research agency –
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support key
Projects are often as much about learning and development as gathering data
VCS organisations are not the only ones who needs to learn and develop
Co-production of tools, approaches and processes
Feedback (Offer and Invite)
Performance management
Planning is key – some voluntary sector organisations have very little capacity
Any Questions
Jake Eliot, Policy Leader,
National Housing Federation
The National Housing Federation is the trade
body for housing associations in England and
exists to represent housing associations, the
work they do and campaign for better housing.
Our members provide two and a half million
homes for more than five million people.
Jake leads the Federation's policy work on
health, social care and support for vulnerable and
older people. Prior to joining the Federation, Jake
worked for the National Council for Voluntary
Organisations and has several years' experience
of working in the voluntary sector in different
policy and project management roles. He also is
chair of a voluntary arts and culture agency for
London.
Housing associations and
JSNAs
Jake Eliot, 16 December 2013
Contents
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Why housing associations?
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What we can offer
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What data? (housing and support services)
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Approaches worth investigating
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What next?
Housing is a major
determinant of health
• Investing in better homes
reduces health inequalities
• Improve outcomes by
combining lifestyle and
environmental impact
• 2.5 million homes for 5 million
people, and significant care +
support providers
What can housing do for our
JSNA?
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Early intervention to manage demand / prevention
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Transform care pathways
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Make community connections + extend reach /
capacity of local services and assets
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Future focus: pick-up emergent health needs
Data I: housing
• Homelessness
• CORE data
• Stock condition
• Tenancy survey
• Customer insight
• Neighbourhood plans
Data II: services and community
intelligence
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Supporting People data
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Contextualising statutory data
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Place-shaping: mapping need
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Data on ‘Hidden health’
Approaches: learning more from
existing data
Approaches: Devon’s housing
and client based approach
• Accommodation and Support JSNAs for client groups
• Older People
• Mental Health
• Learning Disabilities
• A tangible offer, co-terminus with main JSNA, adding
details and case for change to get results
What next for JSNAs?
• Creating actionable knowledge
• Better typologies: condition, suitability, support?
• analysis in partnership: health needs audits
• Positioning JSNA for Action: balance mainstream
commitments with specific focus
• Challenges to us include language + scale
• Understanding and navigating challenges of
austerity: welfare reform and cuts to support
Keep in touch
Jake Eliot
Policy Leader
Jake.eliot@housing.org.uk
Tweet: @housingJake
Direct line: 020 7067 1084
www.housing.org.uk
Mark Browne- Department of
Health
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Mark Browne is Local Government Policy Lead at DH. He
works with strategic partners including the LGA, Public Health
England, NHS England and others to support local
government and their partners develop strong local health and
care systems. This includes a particular focus on supporting
health and wellbeing boards to drive transformational change.
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Previously, Mark was a health improvement programme lead
in the DH’s regional public health group for London. He
provided tailored support to public health teams in local
government and the NHS to deliver local priorities across a
range of public health issues.
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Mark has also led work for the Greater London Authority to
support the development of a strategic pan-London approach
to tackling obesity in partnership with local authorities. This
included supporting public health teams to develop
collaborative approaches with local partners beyond the health
sphere, and based soundly on the needs and lifestyles of local
communities.
Dr Justin Varney MBBS FFPH MSc
Public Health England
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Justin is the consultant in public health medicine for Adults
and Older People in Public Health England’s Health and
Wellbeing team. His portfolio of work includes domestic
violence, health and work, end of life issues, LGBT health,
physical activity and work on social isolation.
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Prior to specialising in public health medicine, Justin trained
in general practice and has a broad range of experience
across both primary and secondary care. He spent the last
six years working in primarily in East London working
across local government and the NHS on issues such as
childhood obesity, immunisation, domestic violence and
public/private partnerships for health improvement.
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Justin has a special interest in the public health of minority
and marginalised communities with an emphasis on
lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans communities and homeless
people.
Jo Whaley- Regional Voices
Jo is the Network Director of Regional Voices which
champions the work of voluntary and community
organisations to improve health, wellbeing and care
across England. We are a partnership of nine regional
networks. Together, we connect to over 25,000
voluntary and community organisations across
England.
We are a voluntary sector Strategic Partner of the
Department of Health, NHS England and Public
Health England and work with other partners,
supporting voluntary and community organisations to
understand changes in health and care policy and
support organisations to influence these changes, in
order to achieve better outcomes.
Reports mentioned by the speakers:
• Housing associations and JSNA: JSNA:
Vulnerable Adults, Housing and Support
(LGA)
• Wakefield Rapid Intelligence Gathering
Project: A Trusted Hand to Hold (Involve
Yorkshire Humber)
Resources about VCS evidence
and JSNA
•Background- about JSNA: Influencing Local
Commissioning for Health and Care - Guidance for the
VCS
•Different ways VCS can influence JSNA
http://www.regionalvoices.org/JSNA-more-resources
•Evidence out there the VCS can use
http://www.regionalvoices.org/evidence
•Briefing for health and wellbeing boards on voluntary
sector evidence- coming soon (NHS Confederation)
Briefings
Briefings on most areas of interest to
the voluntary sector on the changing
health system:
http://www.regionalvoices.org/changes
One to watch:
The Department of Health/NHS
England/Public Health England
Voluntary Sector Strategic Partners’
Programme Portal:
http://www.voluntarysectorhealthcare.org.uk/
www.regionalvoices.org/
developments
Follow us on twitter
@regionalvoice
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