Fitness for purpose review
Working with Inspira Consulting, we have recently completed a fitness for purpose review for the Birmingham Strategic Partnership. This review examined the delivery chains through which the LAA in Birmingham was being delivered into districts & neighourhoods. It assessed the extent to which public service performance was improving as a result of the LAA in 3 inner city areas, and one outer city area. Recommendations were made which have informed the transitional review of the Birmingham LAA, and related performance improvement decisions. The project helped to prepare the ground for the introduction of 'outcome' planning across the City Council.
Your Neighbourhood Matters
GFA Consulting (working with Peter Paisley Associates) are the evaluators for the Your Neighbourhood Matters programme in Coventry - a 4 year programme of activities in 6 small neighbourhoods in Coventry, designed to develop improvements in public services. The programme is funded under the Neighbourhood Element.
Action Learning Set on evidence & strategy
We ran a regional Action Learning Set for RegenWM during the spring 2007 - which provided a series of wokshops to help practitioners problem solve around issues of evaluation, use of evidence and effective strategy development. This was one of a series of such activities.
Learning 2 Deliver
This is the regional capacity building programme for LSPs in the West Midlands. GFA provides the contract management for this programme of support, on behalf of the Regional Improvement Partnership.
Learning evaluation & review
Learning evaluation & review: SRB and regeneration – policy evaluation of the impacts of SRB investment in learning and educational attainment in England..
Value added of sub regional partnerships
Value added of sub regional partnerships: two studies – one for ODPM and one for AWM which examined the role and value of sub regional partnerships in delivery of policy.
VCS engagement in LAAs
VCS engagement in LAAs: ‘Getting it Right’ programme under which there was evaluation of the role of voluntary and community organisations in delivering LAA outcomes – in particular around the ‘closing the gap’ agenda. For GOWM.
New Deal for Communities (NDC) has been a central element of the Government's National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal. NDC Partnerships were been established in 39 neighbourhoods across England. Over the ten year duration of the programme they will receive total funding of £2 billion.
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The Neighbourhood Management Pathfinder Programme was launched in 2001 by the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit (NRU) in what is now the DCLG. The main aim of the Programme has been to test the model of neighbourhood management proposed in the Social Exclusion Unit's fourth Policy Action Team report. Thirty five Pathfinder partnerships have now been established, throughout England, including 20 Round 1 Pathfinders, selected in 2001, and 15 Round Pathfinders, selected in December 2003.
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Groundwork Trust
With support from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, GFA and CRESR carried out a national evaluation of the Groundwork Trust, and in particular, its rule in supporting sustainable neighbourhood based regeneration. The research was based on an analysis of existing data across all of the Trust's activities in 2000-2001, but mainly through a detailed examination of six case studies across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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