Archive: CIEP Year Two Program (2009-10)
NWIEP Future Direction
Against a backdrop of potentially dwindling resources for public spending, a strong and decisive public service response is vital. So, when, in April 2008, we formed our new partnership, we saw a unique opportunity to seize the improvement agenda and take responsibility for defining and tackling our own improvement challenges in the North West.
In 2008/09 NWIEP received a funding package in excess of £8m from the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG), to foster regional sector led improvement. Working alongside the Audit Commission, Improvement and Development Agency, North West Employers Organisation, 4NW and Government Office for the North West, we started to put in place the right support and information at the right time for local authorities and their partners across the region. We delivered a number of successful programmes and activities that have already led to efficiencies and improved services in the North West.
Looking to the NWIEP’s future, the stakes have been raised beyond all our expectations. The strength of our collective response in the North West is crucial, if we are to help local authorities and their partners to deliver on their promises. The revised North West Improvement & Efficiency Strategy 2009 – 2014, is an expression of our intense determination to harness the commitment and energy of all the partners of the NWIEP to provide better, more efficient public services and a better quality of life for the citizens of the North West.
Extract from the NWIEP Improvement & Efficiency Strategy 2009-14
NWIEP Priority Areas and Themes
We will achieve our objectives, by organising activity and investing resources across nine themes. The first four of these themes are particularly important for the NWEIP, and we envisage that the needs of these themes will require greater levels of investment than others.
· Economy
· Communities & Neighbourhoods
· Efficiency & Transformation
· Working in Partnership
The four priorities are supported by another key area of work, that of ‘Enablers’. This concerns the issues that impact on our ability to deliver better public services within the region, such as leadership workforce development and equalities
A further four themes will require investment and support, though less than our priority themes. These are;
· Children & Young people
· Community Safety
· Health & Social Care
· Environment & Climate Change
How NWIEP will achieve the objectives
Within each theme, we will commission activity that helps us to deliver specific improvement outcomes against each of our five objectives. For the purposes of delivery, each theme will be approached as a ‘Commission’ for which dedicated teams of lead Chief Executives, lead Members and specialists will set out the improvement needs, investment activity and outcomes desired across the whole region.
Our five sub regions are very diverse and have differing improvement needs. It is appropriate that these particular needs are addressed by our well-established sub regional partnerships. These partnerships will receive 60% of the overall core funding available to the NWIEP, and will decide on the appropriate spending priorities within the themes listed above. The remaining 40% of resources will be commissioned at regional level across the nine themes.
Extract from the NWIEP Improvement & Efficiency Strategy 2009-14
How CIEP will support NWIEP’s vision
There is a big focus on developing our improvement & efficiency strategy. The main motivation for this is CIEP's broader focus on the agenda of the Cumbria Local Area Agreement (LAA) and its Sustainable Community Strategy, alongside our existing foundations of improvement and efficiency from a NW Improvement & Efficiency Partnership perspective. What this means is that we are working ever more closely with a range of partners to ensure that what we do as CIEP is the right thing, is meaningful, and that it makes a real difference.
Year 2 projects are a good mix of efficiency and shared services eg joined up procurement. The key focus for us all is joined up improvement & efficiency for Cumbrian communities.
CIEP receives its support and funding from the NW Improvement & Efficiency Partnership. The CIEP Partnership Board will also ensure that other avenues of regional and central government funding are pursued for Cumbria.
The CIEP Partnership Board’s approach has been to ask how CIEP can help the partners across Cumbria to improve their delivery of the LAA. By developing projects in these areas we can present a strong case that Cumbria’s part in delivering NWIEP priorities is rooted firmly in Cumbrian issues.
Our priorities for 2009-10 are:
1.0 Efficiency
2.0 Communities & Neighbourhoods
3.0 Partnerships
4.0 Capital projects (20% of our funding is to be used on capital)
CIEP Annual Highlight Summary Report
The CIEP Annual Highlight Summary Report is accessible via the link below. This report highlights the cashable/ non cashable efficiencies which have been produced as a direct result of CIEP's Year 2 Program. The report also highlights the various achievements made by the individual projects involved.
CIEP Annual Highlight Summary Report
The End of Year 2 Project Reports are also available to view under the CIEP Year 2 Program 2009-10.
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