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Succession planning guidance: a future for 39 communities. Moving forward from the NDC programme: 4 th December 2008. Helen Giles New Deal for Communities programme manager . What does the guidance cover?. Sets the framework within which succession strategies should operate.
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Succession planning guidance: a future for 39 communities. Moving forward from the NDC programme: 4th December 2008 Helen Giles New Deal for Communities programme manager
What does the guidance cover? • Sets the framework within which succession strategies should operate. • Largely complements previous guidance (2002 and 2006) • 3 key areas on succession strategies • Policy aims. • Assessment criteria and sign off plans. • Policy on technical issues.
Increase in % getting 5 or more GCSEs A-C 50 45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 l Why succession strategies? BECAUSE NDC AREAS HAVE IMPROVED ALOT. By 2006: • less crime; • lower fear of crime; • greater satisfaction with the area – now 71%; • 80% residents think they have a “good” quality of life; • Improved GCSE results.
More to sustain…… • 400 new / improved community facilities; • Over 200 new / improved health facilities; • 11,000 community groups supported; • 2,700 jobs created and 12,000 safeguarded; • 17,500 homes improved or built; and • 90 buildings improved / brought back into use • Many useful lessons have been learned – eg: • How to empower residents; • Innovative projects and approaches; • Increasing trust in public services through partnership working
Succession strategies – the aims • Deliver target outcomes aligned with LAA outcomes and other local priorities; • Continue community empowerment; • Safeguard the assets generated by NDC grant to remain in the area for the benefit of the community; • Financially sustainable; and • Integrated within the local delivery mechanisms and strategies.
Succession strategies – the requirements (1) • Sustainability plan for the area. • Assessed on 8 criteria: • Criterion 1: The outcomes to be delivered are appropriate for the NDC area and the community it serves. • Criterion 2: The community continues to be empowered and community leaders are supported. • Criterion 3: Agreed split of responsibilities between partners in continuing activities / services.
Requirements (2) • Criterion 4: The assets are safeguarded into the long term. • Criterion 5: Governance arrangements support the objectives of the succession plans. • Criterion 6: The risks to the succession strategy have been properly identified and are being actively managed. • Criterion 7: The strategy must be agreed by the Local Authority/ Accountable Body and supported by partners. • Criterion 8: The successor vehicle must be financially independent into the long term.
Succession strategies – vital technical guidance and assumptions • Clarifies outstanding issues – eg area, assets, successor vehicles, clawback removal, accounting procedures. • Provides assumptions to enable preparation of financial plans – eg: • Use of NDC grant and income; • Likely policy on clawback removal; • Transfer of assets and “locking them in”; and • Costs to be incurred. • If can’t meet all criteria and assumptions……..we need to talk.
Assessment and sign off Documents required • Sustainability strategy for the area • An asset register and future management strategy • A risk register and management strategy; and • Business plans for successor organisation Sign off process • NDC and Accountable Body Chief Executive agree strategy. • Submit to Government for assessment, informed by an “Expert Panel” • Round 1 NDCs - submitted to CLG by end of April 2009 for final assessment by December 2009
Helen Giles New Deal for Communities programme manager