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Sustainable Community Strategy Developing the evidence base

Sustainable Community Strategy Developing the evidence base. Margaret Melling, Data Consultant. This presentation. Developing the SCS briefing papers Emerging issues and options Main points from each paper Common themes. NOTE: the briefing papers are WORK IN PROGRESS. Approach.

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Sustainable Community Strategy Developing the evidence base

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  1. Sustainable Community StrategyDeveloping the evidence base Margaret Melling, Data Consultant

  2. This presentation • Developing the SCS briefing papers • Emerging issues and options • Main points from each paper • Common themes NOTE: the briefing papers are WORK IN PROGRESS

  3. Approach • Evidence-led • Collaborative • work with data experts, so we keep the intelligence with the numbers • work with partners who understand what information is likely to be important • Participative • Joint thinking about research findings and implications for the SCS and building on our existing knowledge

  4. Briefing papers • Community Life • Community Safety • Economy • Children & Young People • Learning & skills • Environment • Health, care & wellbeing • Housing • Population & migration • Access to services & travel • Recreation, leisure & culture • Spatial Oxfordshire

  5. Developed by partnerships • Community Life • Community Safety • Economy • Children & Young People • Learning & skills • Environment • Health, care & wellbeing • Housing • Population & migration • Access to services & travel • Recreation, leisure & culture • Spatial Oxfordshire • OVSDP • CDRPs, YOT, Police, DAAT • OEP • C&YP board • Individual stakeholders • OCC E&E • Healthier comm ptnship • Heads of Housing • Data Observatory • E&E Transport • Oxford Inspires/OCC • LSP officers & planners

  6. To inform workshops Overview workshops X2 Workshops X3 3 identical workshops to be held early July Summary of evidence • Local communities • Community safety • Economy & enterprise • Children & Young People • Learning and skills • Environment • Health, care and wellbeing • Housing • Population & migration • Recreation, leisure and culture • Transport and travel • Spatial Oxfordshire Councillors Strategy options

  7. 1. Community Life

  8. Community Life - scope Parishes with completed plans (May2007) • Oxfordshire’s local communities • Attitudes (Citizen’s panel) • Analysis of community-led plans • Volunteering • Contribution to community life • Formal & informal • Vulnerable people

  9. Community Life Opportunities Threats • Place shaping policy • Innovative access to services • Benefits of community planning • Wider role for the VCS • Consultation as part of service development • Community work on environmental issues • Access to services • Affordable housing • Support for volunteering • Polarisation of communities • Gaps in support to community planning • Climate change

  10. Community Life • Issues/options for the strategy • Support for community-led planning • Volunteer brokerage • Work on equality and diversity

  11. 2. Community Safety

  12. Community Safety Opportunities Threats • New national standards for CDRPs • Neighbourhood policing • Partnership working via LAAs • Neighbourhood contact points and shared services • Funding - as Oxfordshire seen as low crime area • Police resources diverted to more specialist areas

  13. Community Safety • Issues/options for the strategy • Link between re-offending, unemployment & lack of housing • Support to young offenders leaving custody • Tackling anti-social behaviour • Reducing fear of crime • Addressing alcohol use

  14. 3. Economy

  15. Economy Opportunities Threats • Environment (nice place to live and work) • clusters, • reputation/brand • clean technology clusters • improved collaboration • Competition in the context of rapid technological change • Skills • disagreements about strategy • congestion • reputation • effects of climate change • The diffuse “brand” or image of the County’s economy that this generalist approach may cause • Lack of investment in appropriate infrastructure

  16. Economy • Issues/options for the strategy • How to create a culture of learning that promotes well being and supports the economy • Retail • Visitor economy • How to support existing clusters to remain globally competitive • How to support emerging sectors such as clean technologies • How to ensure that the generally prosperous economy benefits all of Oxfordshire’s citizens • How to organise cost effective business support • How should Oxfordshire present itself externally and internally in support of the economy • How should businesses mitigate and adapt to climate change • How to make partnership working and collaboration more effective

  17. 4. Children & Young People

  18. Children & Young People Opportunities Challenges • Joined up working • Involvement of children & parents/carers in solutions • National child index • Early intervention & strengthened public health programmes • Better understanding of local places • Modernising agenda • Move to integrated & preventative approach • Funding uncertainties • Developing workforce skills to deliver future services

  19. Children & Young People • Issues/options for the strategy • Housing - affordable housing and housing for vulnerable people • Transport - affordability, accessibility and safety

  20. 5. Learning & skills

  21. Learning & skills Opportunities Threats • “Action for communities” skills training • Link between sector skills & employers • Infrastructure dev projects incl skills • Olympic games • Skills hotspots used by policy makers • Train to Gain for SMEs • Wider role for VCS in skills • Decline in low skilled jobs & increasing number of unemployed unskilled people • Uneven access to skills opportunities (incl rural & older workers) • Potential for decreasingly competitive workforce

  22. 6. Environment

  23. Environment Opportunities Threats • Warmer winters reducing energy consumption • New crops - opportunity for farmers • Engaging communities in environmental issues • Warmer summers boost to tourism & economy • Climate change & impact on environment, economy & vulnerable groups • Implications of unchanged resource consumption & waste

  24. 7. Health, care and wellbeing

  25. Health, care and wellbeing Issues/options for the strategy • Ageing population • Cycle of deprivation • Preventing obesity • Fighting infectious diseases • Health inequalities

  26. 8. Housing

  27. Housing - scope • Affordability • Eco-design • Housing needs of vulnerable people Overcrowding Homelessness Young people at risk and care leavers People with disabilities Substance users People leaving prison Older people BME communities Low income families

  28. 9. Population

  29. Population - focus • Ageing population • Recent migration • Special populations Polish worker registration scheme applications - Oxfordshire

  30. 10. Access to services and travel

  31. Access to services & travel • Improvements in public transport • Raised awareness of climate change • Local communities promotion of alternatives to car Opportunities Threats • Traffic growth • Emissions and climate change • Accessibility of services & facilities

  32. 11. Recreation, leisure and culture

  33. Recreation, leisure and culture Opportunities Threats • Creative partnerships in Oxfordshire • New duties re leisure activities of children • Olympic games • Use of planning to support public art etc • Focus of funding/awareness of active participation • Environmental awareness via art/science collaboration • Oxford West End project • Resources diverted to central activities eg Olympic games • Uneven capacity across the sector to respond to opportunities

  34. 12. Spatial Oxfordshire

  35. Spatial Oxfordshire Opportunities Threats • Hi tech clusters, knowledge-based economy • Planning for sustainable communities • Global economy • Infrastructure development • Ageing population • Centralisation of services • Impact of growth (housing, new infrastructure) on built and natural environment • Impact of climate change

  36. Spatial Oxfordshire • Issues/options for the strategy • Thriving communities • Housing/employment balance • Timely infrastructure development • Smart growth • Mapping spatial plans

  37. Recreation, leisure & culture Spatial Oxfordshire SUMMARY Community Life Access to services & travel Community Safety Population Economy Housing Children & Young people Health, care & wellbeing Learning & skills Environment Addressing the needs of vulnerable people The role of the voluntary sector Community needs and aspirations

  38. SUMMARY for the workshops ? • Key findings for Oxfordshire’s future (trends) • Recommendations from briefing papers • Common themes and important issues for the strategy Within a 20 minute slot…

  39. Grouping of Issues/Threats from briefing papers (1) Economy • Globalisation • Ageing population • Housing, transport • Climate change • Skills • Health & deprivation Climate change • Access to services • Transport • Resource use FOR EXAMPLE

  40. Grouping of Issues/Threats from briefing papers (2) Thriving communities • Volunteering • Community planning • Polarisation • Fear of crime • Ageing population • Access to services • Infrastructure development Vulnerable people • Services • Volunteering • Affordable housing • Community safety • Cycle of deprivation FOR EXAMPLE

  41. Summary of Opportunities • Partnership working • Focus on communities • Wider role for VCS • Consultation • Better data • Service standards • New & innovative solutions • Olympic games • Environmental awareness • Oxfordshire’s economy FOR EXAMPLE

  42. Your help is needed… Next few weeks: • Communicating the project • Help identifying gaps in evidence (BUT NB deadline for papers = 22nd June) • Attending the workshops

  43. And finally… • Latest versions of the papers are published under the login area of the Oxfordshire Data Observatory • www.oxfordshireobservatory.info • Login: Oxfordshire2020 • Password: evans

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