Neighbourhood Health Development
The Castle Vale Experience
Lisa Martinali
Director of Community
Regeneration
Steve Clayton
Castle Vale
Neighbourhood Manager
Points covered:
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Castle Vale - background
Neighbourhood Partnership Board
Health priorities and evidence
Local delivery
Outcomes and impact
Opportunities for the future
Castle Vale - Background
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Built Between 1964 & 1969
Largest post war housing estate in Midlands
34 tower blocks, maisonettes & houses
Home to almost 20,000 people in 5,000 homes
Exhibited all the classic signs of deprivation
Housing Action Trust - holistic approach to regeneration
Castle Vale 1993
Castle
Vale 1993
The Transformation
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2200 homes demolished
1500 new homes built
1333 homes improved
1461 Jobs created
3415 training places
New Shopping centre, community facilities
Unemployment reduced significantly
Educational attainment improved
People living longer – life expectancy increased
Reductions in crime
Castle Vale
2004
Castle
Vale
2004
Great Success but only half way there….
 Four
out of six super output areas still in England’s poorest 10%
 Still concerns about fear of crime
 Local services still don’t meet local needs or residents
aspirations
 Importance of jobs, training and education
 Poor
health - life styles
Neighbourhood Partnership Board
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6 residents, local and statutory providers
Evidence based neighbour hood plan
Responds to community agenda
Closes the gap
Makes links with Erdington Community Plan and Birmingham
LAA
5 priority themes: health, housing, community safety,
environment, employment and training
Castle Vale Neighbourhood Plan and strategic context
Government Strategy
Strong and Prosperous Communities (2006), Building Communities, beating Crime (2004), Our
Health, Our Care, Our say (2006), National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal (1998), Aiming High
(2007) ………..
Health
Birmingham
Improvement Plan
Community Strategy
Birmingham Local
Area Agreement
Economic
Strategy
Children & Young
People’s Plan
Erdington District
Community Plan/
BENPCT
Castle Vale
N/hood Plan
Health Priorities and Evidence
Priorities:
 lifestyle factors
 sexual health/teenage
pregnancy
 obesity
 men’s health
 mental health support
 support services
 other issues affecting health
e.g. housing, crime
Evidence:
 IMD 2004/2007
 baseline health surveys
2000/2004
 BEN PCT statistics
 LAA targets
 community
consultations/involvement
 Extended Provision Cluster
Local Delivery
Castle Vale Community Regeneration Services
 sexual health programme
 healthy schools programme
 Telebuddies – older persons scheme
 men’s health programme
 substance/alcohol misuse outreach
 resident support service
 community garden
 public health roadshows/signposting
Outputs and achievements (2007-8)
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engaged with 691 residents
35 young people attended sexual health programmes, 200+
registered for Here For You
16 young people completed ASDAN via health projects
over 500 alcohol and young people cards distributed
supported 18 of our most vulnerable residents
regular surgeries/activities at local facilities
external funding to support health development and support
services - £100k+
support services -10% positive disengagement
+ many more!
Making a difference………measuring impact
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MEL / Mori surveys of 2004
Lack of neighbourhood level information
local monitoring/tracking
Be Birmingham website currently under development that will
contain data provided by PCT’s down to SOA level (limited
access)
Health - lag indicators
Making a difference………measuring impact
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Crime - many more people reporting they feel safe to walk
alone at night (fear walking alone at night was 35% in 2005
down to 12% in 2007)
Employment – 300 into work and over 200 into training (Tyburn
Ward)
Increasing levels of residents satisfaction with basic services
support services -100% sustained tenancies, 1 person
progressed into employment
Opportunities
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learn and share
Health – closer working with primary care trust/mainstreaming
Third Sector opportunities – public service delivery
Working Neighbourhoods Fund - Future stronger focus on most
deprived neighbourhoods and worklessness
To continue to sustain Castle Vale!