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Total Place

The Total Place pilot, which aims to improve public sector services by looking at how public bodies can work better together at less cost has now reached an important milestone. Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire councils - who have been working together on the pilot – have spent months of hard work gaining information and gathering experience and have now submitted their findings in a report to Government.

Focusing on improving services for children and young people, each local authority in the sub-region has led on a particular area of work, such as: shared services; young people not in education, employment or training; child health; bullying and school improvement. The pilot report showed that an average of £6.2 billion a year is spent on public services in Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire and identifies the following key messages:

The Total Place report identifies future models of service delivery; the steps to be taken to achieve them; the benefits for the user; and the efficiencies that they bring as part of the National Budget process.
Changes must be made to improve service delivery and demonstrate the areas we should focus on to sustain a total place approach in the longer term.
The pilot learns from those who deliver services and from those who use them (parents, young people and staff). Rather than measuring success by whether services are being used, we have tried to assess if services are achieving the results that they need to achieve.
The pilot has taken a pragmatic “learning by doing” approach which has looked at carefully selected projects, bringing together the voices and stories of service users and frontline staff.
The pilot has been mapping out total public spending in the sub-region, identifying where resources in a particular area are going and how well they were being used – therefore determining how organisations could work together more effectively.

Please follow the links below the final report of the pilot and the consolidated findings of all 13 national pilots

http://www.localleadership.gov.uk/totalplace/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Final-report-230210-PDF.pdf

http://www.communities.gov.uk/news/corporate/1519132

The time is now right to engage much more on taking the work forward, and any suggestions you might have for how this could be done effectively would be welcome either to Monica Fogarty, (monicafogarty@warwickshire.gov.uk, 01926 - 412514) Assistant Chief Executive, WCC or to Simon Robson, (simonrobson@warwickshire.gov.uk, 01926 - 412942) Head of Partnerships, WCC.