Welcome To Wirral

This vision outlines how we intend to make Wirral a place in which people want to live, work and invest. However, if we are to achieve our vision then at the very heart of our Community Strategy will be the voices of our citizens, our voluntary and community groups, our local businesses and public services.

Performance Management Framework

Wirral LSP has adopted an inclusive approach to its development and understanding of performance management across the LSP Board and its subgroups. This Performance Management Framework describes the processes that will support performance management for the partnership and its delivery of Wirral's Community and Neighbourhood Renewal strategies.

The sections of the Performance Management Framework are accessible here in Adobe Acrobat format. If you do not have a viewer for Acrobat documents, you can get one here.

Introduction.
Section 1 - Thematic Review of Delivery, and Actions for Improvement.

Safer Communities
Improved Health and Social Care
Better Opportunities for Learning
Thriving Local Economy
Mobility and Access
High Quality Homes; High Quality Housing Services
Liveability

Section 2 - Partnership Review of Delivery, and Actions for Improvement.

Strategic Criteria
Inclusive Criteria
Action focused
Performance Managed
Efficient
Learning and Development

Renewing Neighbourhoods

Regeneration is a process which renews or revitalises the economic, social and environmental conditions of a community. Neighbourhood renewal is the part of this process that concentrates on neighbourhoods.

Neighbourhood Renewal is a national programme designed to help narrow the gap between the most deprived neighbourhoods and the rest of Wirral by working with communities in those areas to modernise the delivery of public services so that no one should be disadvantaged by where they live. The programme aims to improve standards in a number of 'theme areas' of health, education, housing, and the environment, and reduce crime and worklessness

Wirral has received a total of £21.5 million from the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund over a 5 year period from 2001-2006 to help galvanise the process of regeneration in the most deprived areas. Funding has been allocated through a commissioning process which set out priority actions for each theme across the target areas of Bidston, Birkenhead, Leasowe, Seacombe, Egremont and Tranmere.

A further £14 million has been awarded to enable the LSP to continue and expand the existing programme which will now include Woodchurch as well as Bidston, Leasowe, Birkenhead, Seacombe and Tranmere. For more information, contact a member of the Neighbourhood Renewal Team on 0151 691 8305.

There are established neighbourhood partnerships in all the priority areas which involve representatives from various public, private, voluntary and community organisations concerned with the issues in their areas. They meet regularly to discuss issues in their area and try and resolve any problems which may be raised.

These partnerships are key to the delivery and direction of the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund as they involve the communities and agencies at the heart of the most deprived areas. The Community Empowerment Fund supports community and voluntary sector involvement in LSPs in NRF areas and is administered by Wirral Voluntary and Community Sectors Network.

Neighbourhood Renewal Fund 2006-2008

Neighbourhood Renewal Funding for 2006 - 2008 will commission activity which contributes to the Neighbourhood Renewal floor target areas of:

• Crime and Community Safety
• Employment and Enterprise
• Improving Educational Attainment
• Improving Health
• Housing and the Physical environment
• Road Safety

These may be achieved through seeking new and innovative methods of delivery, enhancing existing mainstream delivery of public services through alternative delivery mechanisms or additional resources, or seeking to deliver more of an existing service in areas where we have certain knowledge that it will have maximum impact. The underpinning principles to this process are modernising mainstream public services, strengthening community engagement and target driven delivery to meet the challenges.

Commissioning is delivered through two elements. The first is thematic commissioning (see below); the second is through the local Neighbourhood partnerships targeted to local needs. This type of commissioning is called People and Places.

A consultation event was held on 2nd November 2005 at the Lauries Centre in Birkenhead to enable priorities to be set for the new thematic commissioning. People and Places commissioning will be managed directly by the neighbourhood partnerships.

Over 190 people attended, representing a wide range of voluntary and community organisations as well as larger public service providers, to discuss how NRF should be used from 2006-2008.

Presentations were given by each thematic partnership and these are available:

• Road Safety Presentation
• Wirral Learning Partnership presentation
• Thriving Local Economy presentation
• Safer Communities presentation
• Health and Social Care presentation
• Strategic Housing Presentation

The feedback report and priorities agreed are available here.

The next stage of the commissioning process has been completed and each of the Thematic Partnerships have produced their full Commissioning Briefs and Service Specifications. These detail the priorities and actions which they have agreed to take forward through the commissioning process.

Thematic commissioning

Through the initial 2006-08 commissioning, partners had the opportunity to submit proposals to deliver against the priorities and actions identified within each of the commissioning briefs. Commissioning Briefs and service specifications for each of the thematic partnerships are available below along with supporting information about the Neighbourhood Renewal floor targets:

• Road Safety Commissioning Brief
• Thriving Local Economy Commissioning Brief
• Wirral Learning Partnership Commissioning Brief
• Safer Communities Commissioning Brief
• Health and Social Care Commissioning Brief
• Strategic Housing Commissioning Brief

Supporting Documents

• Neighbourhood Renewal Floor Targets
• Neighbourhood Renewal Proposal Form
• Neighbourhood Renewal Assessment Guidance

Further to the initial commissioning, a small proportion of the original commissioning budget for Health and Social Care was allocated for further commissioning in 2007/2008 with priorities to be determined.

Following a consultation with the Health and Well-Being Group a number of priority areas were identified that aer considered to add value to the current portfolio of activity funded by NRF, and most importantly will contribute to acheivement of the relevant Floor Targets. Using these priority areas, seven Service Specifications have been developed. It is against these that the H&SCP is now looking for Service Providers to develop and submit proposals.

Here are the H&SCP Service Specifications 2007-2008

All satisfactorily completed proposals need to reach Peter Wong no later than 1pm on Friday 9th February 2007. Ideally these should be submitted electronically. Contact details can be found within the service specifications document.

Thematic Plans

The Commissioning process has now been completed

The LSP's thematic commissioning sub groups, which included appropriate community representation from Wirral's Voluntary and Community Sectors Network (WVCSN), have now considered new commissioning activity and these are set out within the Neighbourhood Renewal Thematic Plans. The plans detail the agreed priorities and the process against which proposals were assessed.

• Better Opportunities for Learning Theme Plan
• Health & Social Care Theme Plan
• Housing and Physical Environment Theme Plan
• Road Safety Theme Plan
• Safer Communities Theme Plan
• Thriving Local Economy Theme Plan

If you require any assistance please contact the Neighbourhood Renewal Team on 0151 691 8305.