PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM. 62. The Government and the Combined Authority will work with relevant central and local statutory and non-statutory sector partners to explore innovative and integrated approaches to redesigning sustainable public services across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough with a focus on prevention and early help. This includes the transfer of powers between the Combined Authority, the County Council, District Councils and Parish Councils to deliver the most efficient and effective public services. The Government and the Combined Authority will also focus on tackling socio-economic issues in areas of deprivation, such as parts of Fenland, Cambridge, Huntingdon and Peterborough, to improve the quality of life for local residents. Health and Social Care
PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM. 72. The Government and the Combined Authority will work with relevant central and local statutory and non-statutory sector partners to explore innovative and integrated approaches to redesigning sustainable public services across Norfolk and Suffolk with a focus on prevention and early help.
PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM. 37. The government will engage with the Combined Authority Shadow Board to discuss the outcomes of their Mental Health Commission.
PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM. 69 Local agencies and authorities will collaborate on new, innovative and integrated ways of delivering government and council services across the Combined Authority. Reform of public services will be necessary to meet increasing challenges, particularly where demand is increasing and in services which support people with complex needs towards employment and independence. The approach will seek to be at least fiscally neutral, if not positive. 70 In order to achieve these priorities the Combined Authority will develop a plan for public service reform, under the auspices of a Public Service Reform Board. This will build on work already underway and operate on the principle of co-production between the Combined Authority, local partner agencies, D2N2LEP, relevant regional/national bodies and government. Where the Board’s recommendations, as agreed by the Combined Authority, would involve any further devolution from national bodies or exercise of national flexibilities, submissions will be made by the Board to government and these will receive a Ministerial response. 71 The Public Service Reform Board will have a defined scope set out in a Terms of Reference document, which could include, subject to local agreement, (but is not restricted to): health and social care integration, opportunities around collaboration of emergency services, offender management, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services and Troubled Families, Policing, Street Scene and Community Safety Services (including Licensing and Regulation). 72 Building on the government’s commitment in the Local Growth Deal to the “Rebalancing the Outer Estates” project, and beginning in Nottingham North, the Combined Authority will develop a wide range of new solutions to tackle problems of worklessness, isolation and family breakdown in estates on the edge of cities. The North Midlands Combined Authority commits to further develop the pilot, with a view to exploring whether a similar approach should be taken in other cities, market towns and rural and former coalfield communities within the Combined Authority area. This will mean that successful approaches, and the lessons learned by the Combined Authority, can be translated to other places in the UK. Policing
