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Replacing the Beacon Scheme LGA Improvement Board 10 Sept 2009

Replacing the Beacon Scheme LGA Improvement Board 10 Sept 2009. Dame Denise Platt Chair of the Advisory Panel. Retaining the best of the old…. Refreshed principles of the new scheme Identify, acknowledge and spread innovation & excellence

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Replacing the Beacon Scheme LGA Improvement Board 10 Sept 2009

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  1. Replacing theBeacon SchemeLGA Improvement Board10 Sept 2009 Dame Denise Platt Chair of the Advisory Panel

  2. Retaining the best of the old… Refreshed principles of the new scheme • Identify, acknowledge and spread innovation & excellence • Raise standards by promoting best practice through peer learning and knowledge transfer • Improve services to make a real difference to quality of life and life chances for individuals & communities • Give national recognition to local, frontline services and partnerships

  3. Introducing something fresh and new Five key elements • Design that supports challenging agenda facing local government and its partners • Capacity to identify emerging innovation • Timely knowledge transfer • Increased profile, celebration and incentives for applicants and award winners • Strategic governance body

  4. New approach, new scheme, new name - ‘+Impact’ • Hot-wired to top 20 LAA priorities • Fewer themes, more reward • Challenge process – applicants present to Peer Challenge Panel event • Support for emerging thinking or untested ideas from the front line teams – a small Dragons’ Den-type panel • Joint central and local government policy champions for strategic profile and positioning of awardees

  5. New themes • Building economic resilience • Keeping children and young people save in the Community • Policing our communities Together • Taking control of Care • Achieving more through Partnership (challenge theme) • Tackling challenging community issues using talent across the generations (challenge theme)

  6. Framework for new scheme 4 themes explicitly reflecting the top ranking LAA priorities Economic resilience Safeguarding children Policing our communities Taking Control of Care (on-site, interrogative peer review) Up to 2 more open Challenge Themes Achieving more through partnerships And Tackling challenging local issues Using talent of the generations (Peer Challenge Panel Event) + + I’ve got a good idea! (Dragons’ Den Style panel)

  7. Business cycle for achieving ‘Impact’ March 2009 On-going Diffuse peer learning Launch Year 2 themes Round 10 Awarded March 2009 Ready to share, ready to Learn Peer learning, peer support Transition Fund c£2.5m (Design new approaches to Knowledge transfer) Menu of knowledge transfer And improvement support Year One new scheme Themes hooked to LAAs Streamlined process Challenge features RIEPs talent spot – automatic shortlist? Links to innovation stakeholders Awards March 2010 Spring 2009-Autumn 2010

  8. New look-governance and input of the LGA Improvement Board and Group • Strategic, smaller but representative panel with access to Expert Reference Group • Positioning in improvement infrastructure • Space to innovate required for sector-led model • Integration and improvement across service and ‘place’ • Hooked up to regions • Facing ‘unknown unknowns’ – ideas leadership, innovation, knowledge transfer models • Sustainability – support for organisational capacity

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