Councillor Derek Osbourne, Leader of the CouncilDean Tyler, Relationship Manager Kingston Strategic

Partnership Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames

Civil Society Network23rd February 2012

One Norbiton : Two PilotsLocal Integrated Services and

Neighbourhood Community Budgets

One Norbiton One Slide

Aspirations…“To improve the lives of communities in Norbiton by giving them more control and influence over the priorities and resources set for their area”

“To raise awareness across all residents and communities so that all have the opportunity to be informed and involved at the level of their choosing”

… will be achieved by…• Testing the concept and co-designing

a radical proposal for local service redesign

• Aligning the objectives of two pilots: Neighbourhood Community Budgets and Local Integrated Services;

• Mapping and pooling partner budgets in line with community priorities to take our activity to the next level in terms of devolving more power and influence to the local level.

Challenges• Managing community and Member

expectations (outcomes; pace of project; no budget)

• Ongoing capacity of partners to deliver• Willingness to engage at all levels• Willingness of budget holders at all

levels to let go of  their budgets and devolve spending decisions to neighbourhood level

Kingston and Norbiton

Local Integrated Services

Will help to improve the lives of people in Norbiton people: 1)Develop a community voice and involve Norbiton community members in decisions about priority setting and resources 2)Pool money and resources together to form a single pot for community members to influence or control3)Increase partnership working between agencies and with community members

Community view

Empowering the Community for Localism

• 12 Week Community Development and Health Course, OCN accredited

• Enable active learning and community development for active citizenship

• Learners gain new confidence, knowledge and skills; and pass these on and increases civil and civic participation “It gave me the confidence to take on new roles serving my community”

Professional’s Working Group (PWG)Includes representatives from;Royal Borough Kingston CouncilKingston University, NHS Kingston, Metropolitan Police, The CabinetOffice, Kingston Voluntary Action andKingston Chamber of Commerce

Project Structure

Member Officer Group

Includes PWG and 6 Councillors

Community Working Group

Includes people who live, work, play or study in Norbiton

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Project Board (Project Leads and Project Manager)

Project Sponsor

Kingston Strategic Partnership

One Norbiton

One Kingston – what our partners say

Kingston is the only area in the country to be involved in both the Neighbourhood Community Budget and Local

Integrated Services pilots ….. Why?

• Local Integrated Services has made progress– With the community to identify priorities – With partners to test the extent to which we can map and pool

budgets to target those outcomes

• But we are getting stuck specifically around accountancy; communications and community research

• We need access to technical financial expertise to understand the scale of the budgets at partner and Government levels

• Looking to the NCB pilot to help and also to take our activity to the next level in terms of devolving more power to the local level

Challenges• Political – working with Councillors to develop their roles as

community leaders and provide clarity on what we are seeking to empower the community to develop

• Community – managing expectations, pace of project, no budget, ensuring representation

• Partners – providing capacity at right level to engage with project

• Officers – working within a new genuinely bottom up context

• Government – chances of success depend on extent Whitehall are able to ‘let go’ of central budgets and devolve spending decisions to a local level.