Workshop 4

How can local authorities make us happy?

Marcia Brophy

Key Comments on presentation

Emotional resilience programme for 16-19 year olds.
Measuring well-being at the local level = not a deficit based model.

Kevin – Who do you contact in LA’s?
		Chief Executive and assistant CE
		Team leader in Neighbourhood Team
		Operational Team Leader
		Head person from SG in the LA
		Work across the LSP as well – LA take the lead on that

How does it fit with Joint Strategic Leadership Programme?
		Being co-ordinated by the Las
		Promoting working between 3x LA’s as well

Linked to LAA; measurement strand linked to LAA’s and place shaping survey
		NEET indicators and extra suggestions from each LA
		Older people – increasing engagement
More info on the website about how the extra suggestions have been taken on board

Can you work with any extra LA’s?
Not as the Young Foundation, but the partnership supports this to an extent
Navigating through “toolkit”= consultancy
Some leadership from those LA’s that have gone though it already
Rolling out the work across the 7 strands

Local wellbeing can we measure it?
		Tried it out with 3 LA’s Place shaping useful survey
		Also tried it with Nicola from NEF
		Only specific data on wellbeing
		Real data will take 3 to 4 years to emerge

Barriers – timelines involved take a long time. Evidence based approach
-	Resources
-	Common agenda – capacity building around how this is relevant to area leads, neighbourhood team

Opportunities – tying up with LA’s, LAA’s and place shaping survey
-	Lets be creative about some of the policy priorities
-	Local support? Top down approaches
-	Bottom up approaches – go through IDeA
What further support would be useful?
-	Which communities of practice? Each of the 7 strands on IDeA
-	Reports to support the evidence base to enable people to go to their Chief Executives
-	Neighbourhood, measurement and empowerment reports online at the moment – Partnering one in the summer
-	Will circulate Marcia’s evidence base around wellnet
-	Newsletter to demonstrate what’s happening within each of the 3 LA’s

-	Making people proud of their neighbourhood and closing the gap between age and gender etc.
-	Chief Executive; could champion this for others
-	Value for money; qualitative evidence so far – quantitative next stage
-	Resources online for upcoming events. Young Foundation and NEF
-	Don’t be too restrictive about definitions, as this allows more agencies to get involved
-	Directors of public health are key as well-being is relevant to PCT

How can we work better together?
-	active learning sets are ongoing
-	parenting a good way in
-	LSP’s
-	Good working between the PCT and LA where some strands are relevant to both agendas e.g. schools, emotional resilience
-	Enfield; Joint Strategic Needs Assessment