Devolution in Greater Manchester

October 2015

Alex Gardiner, New Economy

Greater Manchester Context

Outcomes include:

“We will be seen and experienced as a city region where all people are valued and are able to fully participate in and benefit from the city region’s success.”

“We will create a city region where every resident, neighbourhood and every borough can contribute to and benefit from our shared sustainable future.”

Our ambition

• A financially self-sustaining city region, sitting at the heart of the Northern Powerhouse, with the size, assets, skilled population and political and economic influence to rival any global city

• Driving sustainable growth across GM, and ensuring that all GM residents are able to contribute to and benefit from that growth

– Creating the conditions for growth by making the best use of our land supply and investing in our infrastructure and assets

– Increasing total productivity by improving the skills base of our population and driving higher levels of business growth

– Helping our citizens to become independent and self-reliant, focusing on person-centre delivery models to provide integrated programmes of support, increasing the proportion of residents in work and helping them to progress through work

• Our priorities are exemplified by the Northern Powerhouse: a strategy that enables empowered City regions to collaborate through greater connectivity, supporting the re-balancing of our national economy

GM Context

• GM is now “Officially the Most Exciting Place in the UK!” The Guardian – 25th Feb 2015

• Significant acceleration towards GM Strategy goals

• Key milestones:– Devolution Agreement signed in November 2014– Health and Social Care MoU agreed in February 2015

• From a base of loose joint working on specific projects towards formal collaboration on a wide range of issues

What is being devolved to GM?

Skills & Employment: GM has the power to• reshape & re-structure GM’s Further Education provision with

government to ensure that the supply of skills in GM meets the needs of businesses

• jointly commission (with the Department for Work and Pensions) the next phase of the Work Programme, giving us the influence to tailor services to best meet the needs of our residents

Complex dependency: GM has the power to• to scale up work on public service reform programme to provide the

intensive support to workless people and their families to help up to 50,000 people who have struggled to find work get into jobs

Services for children: GM has been invited to• undertake a fundamental review of the way that all services for

children, exploring how existing budgets can be used more effectively to deliver integrated and more efficient services

What is being devolved to GM?

• full devolution of all funding & decision making for health & social care within GM

This will help GM to:• deliver improved health & well being outcomes to support and enhance

GM’s priority of reducing worklessness and supporting people back into employment

• plan for the integration of health and social care across Greater Manchester, allowing us to use existing health and social care budgets to invest in the community based care needed to support change

Health: the MOU forges a new partnership between GM health and social care bodies and NHS England so that from 2016 GM will have

Delivering Devolution

• No doubt this is an exciting time for Greater Manchester• Opportunity to make a real difference for our residents

and deliver our ambition at the GM and locality level• But ….• We need to rise to the challenge• It will require us to work and think differently beyond our

organisational and professional boundaries• Leadership of Place: how we develop our leadership

capacity collaboratively across the public sector

Continuing the devolution journey

• The existing deals represent significant progress towards our overall ambition for GM

• But this is the start of our journey not the end• The forthcoming Spending Review provides an

opportunity to explore further potential for devolution• GM submission to the process around four key priorities:

– Ensuring GM has the critical infrastructure for growth– Increasing productivity– Building new relationships between citizens, the state and

society– Fiscal reform

The role of VCS - opportunities

The Role of VCS in GM

• nearly 15,000 voluntary organisations

• the total income of the sector was £1 billion (financial year 2011/12)

• medium and large organisations received 91 per cent of the total sector income

• 11,963 organisations had an annual income of under £10,000

• deliver 21.2 million interventions for people in Greater Manchester each year

Place Based Working

• A different approach to place based delivery that:– Generates a better response to incidents and to dealing with things giving

rise to those incidents– Delivers the best outcomes for local people– Creates better understanding and engagement between partners and the

community– Develops better lines of communication and new approaches to problem

solving– Results in more effective use of resources for all agencies

• Building on existing multi agency working to develop innovative ways of working within the context of our devolution commitments

Growth and productivity

• As employers - very local approaches can be designed at a district and neighbourhood level

• Supporting social innovation

• New opportunities - City of Science

• Part of a cluster at the heart of Northern Powerhouse

Reform and resident engagement

• Opportunities through devolution – early intervention, prevention, and increased resilience

• Feed into services delivered to schools, young people, families, children and old people

• Embed VCS organisations in commissioning structures

Place

• Contribute to the attractiveness of the city as a place to live, work and visit

• As anchor institution

• GM Leadership