Enabling Measures. Our proposals We would like to: • Continue to explore further potential flexibilities relating to Housing Market Renewal including: - developing propositions for aligning HMR resources together with those from the Regional Housing Board Single Pot, and the Decent Homes programme with the LAA. - having a forward programme for opening up a dialogue on the pooling of all ODPM capital resource on housing and sustainable communities from April 2008 onwards. (Note: as part of the City Summit Business Case submission, we are going further than this and requesting wider flexibilities on capital spending between funding blocks and also on earmarking capital receipts.) • The Local Authority to have formal involvement or influence with regard to the procurement of Section 4 accommodation by NASS (accommodation for failed / end of process asylum seekers) • In recognition of the cross-cutting nature of substance misuse issues we will develop the Safer Communities Partnership statutory overview of Substance Misuse target delivery to ensure that each SFA block is making an appropriate contribution to the strategy's delivery. We will also discuss the potential for further alignment of relevant funding. • Remove the capital/revenue split on elements of the funding that make up our successful neighbourhoods pot – ie. Home Office elements. • Develop a package of freedoms and flexibilities within the Mixed Communities Pilot during 2006. We shall develop specific proposals for discussion at the mid year review. • Seek initial exemption of automatic inclusion of calls recorded through the Single Non-Emergency Number within our crime statistics. We will wish to evaluate the impact of the system and have clear processes in place to ensure that recording is accurate and appropriate. • With regard to National Asylum Support Service (NASS) procurement through Section 4 or the private provider it is necessary to have greater local control to ensure there is less propensity for the provision of accommodation for asylum seekers to have negative impacts on the closing the gap agenda and HMR. Summaries of the business case for these requests are provided in ANNEX A. Pooling: Our proposals Housing solutions (Homelessness) funding We aim to place the funding for Housing Solutions into one single budget area to enable local discretion and development of locally specific services to address homelessness prevention and development of housing solutions. These funds include the Homelessness Inn...
Enabling Measures. Ref: Activity Timescale Progress
Enabling Measures. GP Clinical Systems will need to be enhanced to support CVD risk calculation and the care plan record. • GP Clinical Systems will need to be enhanced to enable the minimum data set to be auto populated and to be recorded and data to be returned. • GP systems will be developed to support GPs to proactively identify the cohort of patients requiring complex care and information to enable quality improvement. • Data governance will be established in line with GDPR requirements. • Individual patient consent for early detection, treatment and data sharing for various necessary functions will need to be collected by the GP at registration. The HSE will develop the consent method and materials. • Supports to practices to enhance diagnostic ability and practice nurse capacity will be required (it is estimated that over 247 additional practice nurse WTE’s will be required to serve the GMS/GPVC population identified with chronic diseases). • Additional capacity for non-practice based diagnostic referral will need to be made available to each GP Practice, e.g. spirometry, echo cardiography, etc. CHO Specialist Nurse and allied health professional resources will also be required to support GPs in each locality. • Communications to the public and development of materials about the new programmes will be developed by the HSE.
Enabling Measures. Xxxxxx takes a pragmatic view of the opportunity offered to negotiate freedoms and flexibilities. The development process has identified a number of key enabling measures, which would benefit the LAA in its operation. These potential freedoms and flexibilities are summarised below: Children & Young People
Enabling Measures. The partnership is proposing to request a small number of enabling measures. Listed below are those freedoms and flexibilities which are being considered for negotiation with Government Departments and GOL. Sub-regional/district approach to accessing DWP/JCP+ to tackle local problems of worklessness DWP approaches, priorities and funding are generally set on a regional (pan- London) basis which does not take into account particular and specific local issues relating to worklessness. Flexibility to agree local joint commissioning/pooling of resources would enable a more coherent, strategically consistent approach to tackling worklessness, greater and more practical partnership working, would overcome any duplication of provision, and would ensure economy of scale, greater value for money and greater impact. We are requesting GOL broker this between Haringey and Department of Works and Pensions. Flexibility around benefits when people enter employment Losing their passport to vital benefits for new job entrants is a major barrier, particularly housing benefit. Losing such benefits often penalises people who take up or return to work. Some benefit claimants currently are able to claim benefit for 4 weeks after taking up employment, e.g. some New Deal claimants, but to extend this and other benefit support (including housing benefit) for all new job entrants to 13 weeks would remove a major barrier to work and would greatly increase the numbers able to take up and maintain sustained employment. Not agreeing this measure would fail to address a major obstacle to work for many people in Haringey and a vital underlining factor in worklessness. We will consider discussing this enabling measure in two parts, general benefits and housing benefits, as the latter is administered by the local authority. Flexibility around 16 hour rule for work placements and work trials In the SSCF programme we have recognised that the lack of experience, work discipline etc is a major barrier for many people wishing to take up work. Work is underway with major employers, including the local authority, to put in place an intervention that supports people who wish to gain experience and skills through work placements. An obstacle to undertaking meaningful work placements is the restriction around the “16 hour rule” which triggers a loss of benefit for volunteers and those on work placements. Currently people can undertake 3-week “work trials” with the agreement of JCP+, this allows them...
