This slideshow describes how Kirklees Community Partnerships evidences impact and outcomes, and highlights some of the challenges. It forms part of my work with the New Economics Foundation for the Cabinet Office this year, as part of their Enabling Social Action programme. Kirklees Community Partnerships is part of Kirklees Council and co-funded by Greater Huddersfield Clinical Commissioning Group and North Kirklees Clinical Commissioning Group, to work with community groups and support people to be more independent, preventing the need for statutory services.
2. About us
• Community Partnerships is part of Kirklees
Council’s Adult Services
• Key areas of work are:
– Community investment focused on
prevention (jointly with Clinical
Commissioning Groups);
– Development support;
– Better in Kirklees - ‘social prescribing’ –
supporting people into community
activity (now commissioned)
– User/carer involvement.
All work supports communities to support people to
be more independent, preventing the need for statutory
support.
3.
4. Overview
Kirklees Council Community Partnerships supports hundreds of
community-based projects each year, including many with a
mental health and/or community arts focus - including music,
singing, drama, craft, film-making and more.
Our development and 'micro commissioning' approach aims to
create a diverse and vibrant range of community 'prevention'
activities in Kirklees, so people can get involved in activities they
enjoy, that support their health and well-being, keep them
independent, and reduce or prevent their need for support from
statutory services.
Community Partnerships manager Fiona Weir will lead a
discussion about the range of activities on offer, the people who
take part, and the potential benefits for individuals, community
organisations and commissioners alike.
Key figures (2015-16)
• £1.23M invested in 140 VCO-run community activities/projects
• Development support to 89 VCOs
• 33,606* hours of community-based activity
• Over 4,198* people benefiting weekly
• Volunteers giving 291,877* hours
• Av cost to commissioners/tax payers approx. £2-3*ppph
• Every pound we invest brings an additional £2.80* into
Kirklees in cash or kind for community prevention activities
• 527 individuals supported from adult services’ ‘front door’ to
community activity; at least 61% of them eligible for statutory
support.
*Provisional
5. Overview
Kirklees Council Community Partnerships supports hundreds of
community-based projects each year, including many with a
mental health and/or community arts focus - including music,
singing, drama, craft, film-making and more.
Our development and 'micro commissioning' approach aims to
create a diverse and vibrant range of community 'prevention'
activities in Kirklees, so people can get involved in activities they
enjoy, that support their health and well-being, keep them
independent, and reduce or prevent their need for support from
statutory services.
Community Partnerships manager Fiona Weir will lead a
discussion about the range of activities on offer, the people who
take part, and the potential benefits for individuals, community
organisations and commissioners alike.
These figures evidence the
activity but not the impact of
social action…
6. Overview
Kirklees Council Community Partnerships supports hundreds of
community-based projects each year, including many with a
mental health and/or community arts focus - including music,
singing, drama, craft, film-making and more.
Our development and 'micro commissioning' approach aims to
create a diverse and vibrant range of community 'prevention'
activities in Kirklees, so people can get involved in activities they
enjoy, that support their health and well-being, keep them
independent, and reduce or prevent their need for support from
statutory services.
Community Partnerships manager Fiona Weir will lead a
discussion about the range of activities on offer, the people who
take part, and the potential benefits for individuals, community
organisations and commissioners alike.
Measuring outcomes and impact
We use these methods:
• Storyboards
• Case studies
• Outcome tools – standardised and simple
• Tailored outcome measures, negotiated with groups
• Client case management data
• Directorate performance data
No ‘one size fits all’. We have found we build a
‘jigsaw’ of impact evidence.
7. Overview
Kirklees Council Community Partnerships supports hundreds of
community-based projects each year, including many with a
mental health and/or community arts focus - including music,
singing, drama, craft, film-making and more.
Our development and 'micro commissioning' approach aims to
create a diverse and vibrant range of community 'prevention'
activities in Kirklees, so people can get involved in activities they
enjoy, that support their health and well-being, keep them
independent, and reduce or prevent their need for support from
statutory services.
Community Partnerships manager Fiona Weir will lead a
discussion about the range of activities on offer, the people who
take part, and the potential benefits for individuals, community
organisations and commissioners alike.
Storyboards
• Demonstrate impact and outcomes using pictures and
words: “Tell us about the difference you make to
people’s lives”
• Generally liked by groups
• Recognised and used by commissioners
• Only thing you need to do to demonstrate outcomes if
your grant is less than £2k per year
https://www.flickr.com/photos/community-partnerships/
• Case studies tell individuals’ stories where there are
particularly good ones to tell.
8. Outcome tools
• We ask groups to choose from a specified set of wellbeing
outcomes – eg “People will be more active/more healthy/less
lonely after participating than before”.
• Simple-to-use tools are linked to these outcomes
• ‘Snapshots’: Baseline and after 6-12 months.
• Measure group outcomes rather than individual outcomes
• Theoretically allow comparison across projects
• In 2015-16, every project receiving more than £2k per year was
asked to use the tools
• Unpopular: some groups find them simplistic; others find the
idea confusing.
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9. Overview
Kirklees Council Community Partnerships supports hundreds of
community-based projects each year, including many with a
mental health and/or community arts focus - including music,
singing, drama, craft, film-making and more.
Our development and 'micro commissioning' approach aims to
create a diverse and vibrant range of community 'prevention'
activities in Kirklees, so people can get involved in activities they
enjoy, that support their health and well-being, keep them
independent, and reduce or prevent their need for support from
statutory services.
Community Partnerships manager Fiona Weir will lead a
discussion about the range of activities on offer, the people who
take part, and the potential benefits for individuals, community
organisations and commissioners alike.
Tailored outcome measures
• Linked to the wellbeing outcomes
• Negotiated to suit individual projects
• All projects over £20K must use these
• Groups’ capacity to identify and use these varies greatly
• Developing officers’ understanding has also been
challenging
• More powerful evidence for the impact of each
individual project, but makes it impossible to compare
projects and make generalisations.
10. Overview
Kirklees Council Community Partnerships supports hundreds of
community-based projects each year, including many with a
mental health and/or community arts focus - including music,
singing, drama, craft, film-making and more.
Our development and 'micro commissioning' approach aims to
create a diverse and vibrant range of community 'prevention'
activities in Kirklees, so people can get involved in activities they
enjoy, that support their health and well-being, keep them
independent, and reduce or prevent their need for support from
statutory services.
Community Partnerships manager Fiona Weir will lead a
discussion about the range of activities on offer, the people who
take part, and the potential benefits for individuals, community
organisations and commissioners alike.
Service data
• Existing data has been very useful, but needs the right
skills/understanding to interpret it.
• Case management data system has allowed us to track
individuals’ ‘journeys’, and provided some evidence for a
reduction of care package and/or greater independence
for some individuals supported to access community
activity.
• Performance management data allows us to compare
levels of service take-up with community investment,
and appears to show that take-up falls when/where
community activity is developed.
11. Overview
Kirklees Council Community Partnerships supports hundreds of
community-based projects each year, including many with a
mental health and/or community arts focus - including music,
singing, drama, craft, film-making and more.
Our development and 'micro commissioning' approach aims to
create a diverse and vibrant range of community 'prevention'
activities in Kirklees, so people can get involved in activities they
enjoy, that support their health and well-being, keep them
independent, and reduce or prevent their need for support from
statutory services.
Community Partnerships manager Fiona Weir will lead a
discussion about the range of activities on offer, the people who
take part, and the potential benefits for individuals, community
organisations and commissioners alike.
Challenges
• Needs people who understand what we are trying to
investigate AND how to manipulate and analyse the data
• Comparing data across projects has not been possible, for
several reasons including the fact that group membership
and size varies from week to week
• Some groups have cheated, which undermining the
reliability of the data
• Trying to make the tools easy-to-use has made them too
simplistic for many
• Storyboards remain the most popular evidence, with both
groups and commissioners.
12. Overview
Kirklees Council Community Partnerships supports hundreds of
community-based projects each year, including many with a
mental health and/or community arts focus - including music,
singing, drama, craft, film-making and more.
Our development and 'micro commissioning' approach aims to
create a diverse and vibrant range of community 'prevention'
activities in Kirklees, so people can get involved in activities they
enjoy, that support their health and well-being, keep them
independent, and reduce or prevent their need for support from
statutory services.
Community Partnerships manager Fiona Weir will lead a
discussion about the range of activities on offer, the people who
take part, and the potential benefits for individuals, community
organisations and commissioners alike.
Next steps
• Use service information to provide the ‘hard’ data
• Use storyboards to provide qualitative evidence
• Define a new set of outcomes: this is happening
corporately, led by the new Early Intervention and
Prevention service
• Further corporate work on outcomes, being clear about
outcomes and benefits to communities and organisations
• Negotiate measures and indicators individually with more
groups
• Possibly develop more data analysis skills within the team,
so we are less affected by other, competing service
demands.
13. To find out more about our work
Photos and storyboards from groups
are at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/comm
unity-partnerships/
Visit
http://www.kirklees.gov.uk/communitypartnerships
14. Contact
Fiona Weir,
Community Partnerships Manager,
Community Partnerships,
Civic Centre 1, 4th Floor,
High Street, Huddersfield,
HD1 2YU
Tel: 01484 225142
Email: community.partnerships@kirklees.gov.uk
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