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Succession Planning Guidance: A Future for Communities

This guidance sets the framework for succession strategies, covering policy aims, assessment criteria, and technical issues. It aims to deliver target outcomes, empower communities, safeguard assets, and integrate with local strategies.

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Succession Planning Guidance: A Future for Communities

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  1. 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

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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

  10. Helen Giles New Deal for Communities programme manager

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