Sub Regional Programmes

Shared ICT Roadmap for Lincolnshire Project

Development of the Lincolnshire ICT Roadmap has identified significant opportunities to remove duplication and realise procurement, process and work-style efficiencies by aligning ICT systems to create a modern, flexible and fit for purpose service. The ICT Strategy Board has identified a significant opportunity to release efficiencies and improve the quality of ICT by jointly implementing three business cases to deliver a common desktop, supplier consolidation and server rationalisation, together with cost savings that can be realised from a unified management structure for ICT across the seven districts.

ICT Roadmap Project Outline Business Case road map project.pdf

Business Intelligence and e-sourcing Project

It is proposed to invest in a business intelligence and e-sourcing solution to ensure that the Procurement Centre has the tools to provide quality procurement services to the authority and facilitate collaboration with the region. A number of other authorities are either seeking to replace their existing e-tendering solutions or like Nottinghamshire install new e-tendering solutions. This programme is intended to build upon previous successful collaborative initiatives such as the regional e auction licence and the Source East Midlands initiatives, both sponsored by Derbyshire CC

Business intelligence and e sourcing.pdf

EMLAS - East Midlands Accreditation Scheme Project

Stock condition surveys show that private sector housing is in a worse condition than public sector housing. They also show that private rented housing is in inferior condition to owner-occupied properties. Any action taken to help raise the standard of housing in the private rented sector is therefore going to have a significant effect on the lives of the occupants. Such action will also produce real cost benefits for the NHS, local authorities and emergency service/care providers. Initiatives such as landlord accreditation schemes are vehicles for local authorities to promote closer working relationships with landlords in their areas and provide an avenue for the self regulation of the sector.

East Midlands Landlord Accreditation Scheme Outline Business Case

Lincolnshire Local Letting Agency

Local Letting Agencies (LLA) match good landlords, good properties and good tenants & can go onto reinforce this relationship by providing a property management service. The activities of a LLA can mirror the activities of a traditional/commercial letting agency, however LLA's offer their services mainly to people in housing need. During 2010-2011, with assistance from the EM IEP, the Decent and Safe Homes (DASH) project successfully implemented a local letting agency within Derbyshire. Due to the success of the Derbyshire LLA and the strategic cross boundary nature of DASH, we are currently working with three Lincolnshire local authorities to implement a local letting agency in their Housing Market Area (HMA).

Initially, DASH will work with the Lincoln HMA to run a pilot project examining the effectiveness of the core procedures and to tailor the model to this specific area. In addition to the provision of good quality accommodation for vulnerable tenants in housing need, the Lincolnshire Local Lettings Agency is also designed as a vehicle to bring empty homes back into use.  We will be working closely with Lincoln's sub regional empty homes service from the outset to ensure this is fully explored.

Lincolnshire Local Letting Agency Outline Business Case

Business Transformation - Adult Social Care - Excellent Ageing

This project will involve a system intervention in adult/community care aimed at minimising unnecessary hospital and residential care admissions as part of Lincolnshire's Excellent Ageing work stream. This will involve both Lincolnshire County Council and the Lincolnshire Health Community (PCT, United Hospital Trust, Community Health Services, GPs and the Lincolnshire Partnership
Foundation Trust), as well as the voluntary sector such as Age UK. It will benefit from building on a recently completed successful systems review in Somerset in this area.

Business Transformation - Adult Social Care - Excellent Ageing

Business Transformation - Developing System Measures - Implementation of a Shared Disability Facility Grant (DFG) Service

Implementation of a shared service for disabled facility grants (DFG) across four district councils using a successfully proven redesigned system. The first phase of the Disabled Facility Grants - has involved four districts and the county council working a new redesigned system which is delivering completed adaptations in less than 60 days compared to the old system average of 344 days. Our work to date shows that there is a benefit to the whole care system when the DFG system is working to meet purpose.Customers are able to maintain independent living, and the care sector (hospital and residential care) avoids the consequential care costs associated when the system does not operate effectively. This phase of the project will extend the redesigned new way of working in DFGs to the remaining three districts in Lincolnshire and look at using the approach across the social housing stock.

Business Transformaiton - Implementaion of Shared DFG Service

Healthy Housing Hub

A partnership project to maximise the integration of health, public health and housing services - targeting housing impacts on the health of the vulnerable in Derby. The project will enhance capacity at the local level to deliver local solutions to local health and housing issues – particularly in relation to falls prevention, winter illness/deaths and the clients’ ability to live a safe, warm & independent life in their own home. It will:

Project Outline Business Case - healthy housing hub - poor housing - poor health

Property Rationalisation - Space Derbyshire Project

The Space Derbyshire project explores opportunities for sharing accommodation and the joint rationalisation of property. The grant funding enables Derbyshire County Council to liaise with district/borough councils and other agencies to explore and identify opportunities for property rationalisation and accommodation sharing and then to progress any such opportunities.

Outline Business Case Space Derbyshire

Northamptonshire Strategic Housing Co-ordination Project

This project will build upon and combine the work of two existing separate projects in order to provide a county level co-ordination of strategic housing activity.

The North Northants Local Authorities (Corby, Kettering, Wellingborough and East Northants) employ a Housing Coordinator to work across the Housing Market Area. The post is one which promotes strategic joint working within the Housing sub-market area. The post of West Northants Strategic Housing Coordinator was similarly created to help co-ordinate the joint working between the local authorities of Daventry, Northampton and South Northants in regards to housing
strategy. The North Northants post has been in existence since 2008 and the West Northants role since 2010.

Further efficiencies will now be achievable across the county by combining the majority of the tasks from these two separate projects into one that is fully co-ordinated.

Northamptonshire Strategic Housing Co-ordination Programme