Freedoms and Flexibilities. ▪ No additional freedoms and flexibilities are required. Shared Assumptions: ▪ The period of measurement is the financial year. Funding Streams: ▪ Delivery of this outcome will be supported through the Safer and Stronger Communities Fund. Notes: ▪ N/A* denotes new mandatory indicators that have been added to the Local Area Agreement through the 2006/07 Refresh process.
Freedoms and Flexibilities. The DfT would keep the Council appraised of new initiatives and best practice in respect of training and road safety initiatives.
Freedoms and Flexibilities. The second round pilots that we spoke to were in the process of putting together their freedoms and flexibilities for inclusion in their Local Area Agreement and were in negotiation with Government Office. For the majority of second round pilots no formal arrangement has been reached as to the number of freedoms and flexibility they are able to request but there was a feeling that the fewer flexibilities requested the more likely that they would be accepted. It was also mentioned that it may be useful to request similar freedoms and flexibilities to neighbouring authorities in order to work regionally as well as locally and to enhance the impact of this element of Local Area Agreements.
Freedoms and Flexibilities. To enable high achievement in relation to the above outcomes, to “stretch” performance beyond that achievable within current constraints, and to make major further improvements in the public service offer to the people of Kent, a series of “freedoms and flexibilities” are required. Local Area Agreements provide a further opportunity to demonstrate how Government can enable improvements in local services by freeing up local partners to deliver. This releases the energy, commitment and innovation of local agencies, managers and staff to deliver high quality and efficient services responsive to national priorities and local needs. As has been discussed earlier, most of the Kent partners to this Agreement have been independently assessed as good or excellent. With the principle of ‘earned autonomy’ Kent is particularly well placed to make good use of additional freedoms. The freedoms and flexibilities we have identified, building on those proposed as part of the LPSA2 process and based on the evidence we have of the barriers to performance improvement are listed below, and details are given in Appendix 5. Overarching Freedoms Supporting People Programme to be managed locally: to reduce its extraordinary amount of administration Intervention in ‘failing ‘ and ‘weak’ service providers: LAA partners should be given the responsibility to recommend the most appropriate and acceptable way to deploy the expertise of any excellent public service provider to assist the recovery of an under performing LAA partner. Reinvestment in Kent of savings brought about through the LAA: When the LAA achieves cross-sector savings between LAA partners, these savings shall be retained within the LAA and re-invested accordingly. Where the actions and investment of a LAA partner delivers a saving to a non LAA partner, incentives shall be devised such that a portion of the saving can be retained by the LAA partner which made the original investment Concentrations of highly dependent people within Kent: to reduce flow to Kent of high-dependency people from London, and stem the continued inflow to Kent's coastal town of high-dependency groups, particularly looked-after children, vulnerable adults and elderly adults. Elimination of perverse effect of reducing benefit claims Distribution of Lottery / Other Funds: Devolved management and coordination of key funding at a Kent-wide level to focus resources on priority outcomes and to avoid duplication. A greater role for the Kent PSB in the de...
Freedoms and Flexibilities. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) will establish arrangements which allow for receipts arising from Fixed Penalty Notices for dog fouling and street littering issued under the Dog Fouling - Dogs (Fouling of Land) Act 1996 and the Environmental Protection Act, surrendered by Wirral Council to the Secretary of State, to be repaid to the Authority for use in relation to approved categories of initiatives to further improve street cleanliness in Wirral. The income derived could then be used to support litter prevention action.
Freedoms and Flexibilities. Xxxxxx PCT’s have set in place significant investment plans for dealing with inequalities that could lead to difficulty achieving financial balance at end of year and some flexibility to deal with end of year under / over spend would be advantageous.
Freedoms and Flexibilities. The range of approaches identified above will require negotiating a more flexible definition of what counts as “attendance” and what counts as “education off site” We would seek the freedom to be able to vary current legislation (Statutory instrument 2089) in order to be able to credit children with attendance where they gain most of their education either offsite or at unusual times of the day, eg. after school from 4-6 p.m. or evening classes.
Freedoms and Flexibilities. Use of average point scores instead of levels to measure uplift. To express targets in terms of value added in particular where Special Needs Classes affect the results.
Freedoms and Flexibilities. ▪ No additional freedoms and flexibilities are required. Shared Assumptions: ▪ The period of measurement is the financial year. ▪ Targets to be achieved by 2008-09 for the indicators underpinning this outcome will be agreed in 2007-
Freedoms and Flexibilities. Currently most of the targeted funding received by social services would have an appropriate impact on the target group for this LPSA. Further discussions will be required with colleagues in Education to see if any specific grants or funding they currently have would require some flexibility in order to target more successfully at this group. Some flexibility to deal with end of year under / over spend would be advantageous.
