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Narrowing The Gap Commissioning Framework

FIRST DRAFT services, demographic, outcomes, performance

THE CORPORATE PLAN PRIORITIES

• 1. Safeguarding and protecting those that

are most vulnerable

• 2. Providing the best life through education,

early help and healthy living

• 3. Providing homes for those most in need
• 4. Keep the town clean, safe, Green and

Active

• 5. Providing infrastructure to support the

economy

• 6. Remaining financially stable to deliver

these service priorities

RBC COMMISSIONING FRAMEWORKS

Promoting Health & Wellbeing

Help to navigate care & support services Self advocacy & peer support Supporting carers to take a breaks and enjoy life

• utside caring

Reducing the impact of illness Connecting people and communities to reduce loneliness

Narrowing The Gap

Thriving Communities

Tackling Poverty

PROMOTING HEALTH AND WELLBEING – 7 themes

Help to navigate care and support services

• Targeted information and advice provision for

people with current or emerging care needs Self advocacy and peer support

• Self advocacy provision for adults with a

learning disability

• Services to facilitate peer support and training

for families with long term health conditions

PROMOTING HEALTH & WELLBEING

Supporting carers to take breaks and enjoy a life outside caring

• Replacement care (respite) services delivered

at home or in the community, which provide

• pportunities for carers to take time away

from caring or enjoy social contact Reducing the impact of illness

• Supporting people to resettle at home

following a period of hospitalisation

Connecting people and communities to reduce loneliness

• Opportunities for vulnerable adults to enjoy

social contact

PROMOTING HEALTH & WELLBEING

Work to date…

AUGUST

• Initial presentations with needs analysis and

evidence base to develop workshop themes based

• n feedback
• 3 workshops – Tackling Poverty, Healthy & Thriving

Communities, Prevention & Early Help - helped develop the services set out in the draft specification

• ‘Prevention & Early Help’ services were not strong

enough for a separate theme, but services were merged into other appropriate areas

Narrowing the Gap- theme 1

TACKLING POVERTY

• 1. Improving life chances – meeting basic

needs

• 2. Maximising Income
• 3. Employability

Narrowing the Gap- theme 2

Thriving Communities

4 Supporting participation & engagement 5 Organisational development 6 Volunteering governance and brokerage 7 Support for marginalised and BME communities

Tackling Poverty

• Provision of food parcels and basic

household good in crisis situations

• Establishing the need for additional

support to be met directly or through referral as appropriate (e.g. befriending, language and literacy skills, access to drug and alcohol services)

• Ensuring that vulnerable people

have access to funding and support to keep their homes warm Improving life chances – meeting basic needs (1) Type of service

Providing practical support for the most vulnerable individuals in society to meet their basic needs

Tackling Poverty

• Signposting and referral –

support in accessing services from voluntary and statutory agencies that will improve life chances in the medium to long term

• Providing intelligence and

information about service recipients to raise awareness

• f their problems

Improving life chances – meeting basic needs (2) Type of service

Providing practical support for the most vulnerable individuals in society to meet their basic needs

Tackling Poverty

• Advice on accessing benefit

entitlement

• Advice on accessing other sources of

help, support or funding

• Advice on managing and reducing

indebtedness

• Help with understanding and

managing daily finances

• Provide a trusted source of help and

support

• Provide preventative financial

education in the wider community on money management, alternatives to loan sharks Maximising income Type of service

Providing support for people who struggle to manage within their income on a day to day basis and who are at risk of falling into crisis

Tackling Poverty

• Support in developing CVs, job

search and job applications

• Supported volunteering
• pportunities
• Pre-formal learning in language,

literacy and numeracy

• Encourage progression towards

regulated learning or training

• Work holistically with families

with multiple or complex needs

Employability Type of service Support for people to take steps towards employment, including pre- formal learning

Thriving Communities

• Encourage individuals to connect

with others in their local community

• Identify and support emerging

community leaders

• Support local issues where a

volunteering contribution can make a difference

• Provide support for individuals with a

shared interest to establish a local group Supporting Participation & Engagement (1) Type of service Community development at neighbourhood level in targeted communities

Thriving Communities • Encourage and maximise use of local

resources for community benefit

• Support management and maximise use
• f community facilities
• Promote and publicise local community

activity

• Provide access to a resource of

information about local provision Supporting Participation & Engagement (2) Type of service Community development at neighbourhood level in targeted communities

Thriving Communities

• Place shaping and leadership – provide

the skills to support local voluntary sector groups and networks to facilitate strategic participation and effective partnerships working

• Stewardship of the sector’s role –

promote the sector and protect its values; promote good governance provide targeted support and training for trustees and local organisations promote and facilitate partnerships and skills sharing Organisational development (1) Type of service Infrastructure support for the local third sector

Thriving Communities

• Harnessing resources – promote and

support partnerships and skills sharing; unlock local resources; encourage the local VCS to access new funds and forms

• f finance
• Demonstrating value – ensure that

agencies are aware of and understand the value and impact of the local VCS, including volunteering, social action, influence and economic contribution Organisational development (2) Type of service Infrastructure support for the local third sector

Thriving Communities

• Ensure third sector groups and
• rganisations have high quality

volunteering integrated in their service delivery and organisational structure where appropriate

• Support people, organisations and

public services to offer skills, support and physical assets Volunteering governance and brokerage Type of service

Quality volunteering

• pportunities are
• ffered; widely

known and barriers to participation

• vercome

Thriving Communities

• Encourage understanding and

support for marginalised communities

• Encourage activities that work

across different communities to counteract barriers to participation

• Work with community leaders to

reach into marginalised communities

• Challenge and change behaviours

that prevent engagement with the local community Support for marginalised communities (1) Type of service Infrastructure support for communities of interest – including race, faith, disability, age, gender and sexual orientation

Thriving Communities

• Help identify and tackle local issues
• Provide access to a knowledge

database about local services

• Encourage referrals and

signposting

• Provide a resource for local

statutory and voluntary agencies that support their engagement with and understanding of marginalised communities Support for marginalised communities (2)

DISCUSSION GROUPS

• Does this feel that the services described

reflect the needs of Reading’s communities?

• Is it clear what the commissioners are

looking for?

• Are our expectations realistic?
• Is anything missing?

12 WEEK CONSULTATION PERIOD began 24 July, ends 16 October

• Consultation sessions 8 & 15 September
• 2nd draft Narrowing the Gap Framework

– early Oct.

• Consultation session 6 October
• Individual surgeries offered on what it

means for each organisation

CONSULTATION APPROACH & TIMETABLE

BIDDING PROCESS AND NOTICE PERIOD

November 2015 2nd - Policy Committee considers Final Framework report and sets draft budget 4th – Bidding begins (9 I/2 weeks) January 2016 8th – Bidding closes Followed by bidding appraisal & clarification February 2016 Bids approved and 3 months notice served (successful and unsuccessful)