Wigan are trying something new: a contract between residents and the council as both sides strive for a better borough. Alison shares the lessons and impacts so far.
This presentation was made at mySociety's TICTeC Local conference on 6th November 2018. More information about TICTeC Local can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/local
6. The Deal for the future
A radical plan:
• To transform traditional
council services and
deliver in new ways
• To grow the borough
• To form new
relationships with
residents
• To maintain and protect
service for the future
8. How we deliver – Community Investment
£10m
invested in communities by
the end of 2018
Opportunity for the community to
take control and make a difference
After £5.1m of actual spend:
• 67 Big ideas
• £5.5m external funding leveraged
• £9.5m social and economic benefit
• £2m recurrent council savings
10. How we deliver – Be Wigan
Be Positive… take pride in all that you do
Be Courageous… be open to doing things
differently
Be Accountable… be responsible for making
things better
Because how we do things is just as important as
what we do
11. Permeates everything we do
Transforming care with residents at Heathside Residential
Home:
“I’ve worked here for 14 years and I am so proud to see the
changes that have come about through The Deal. We are given
the chance to listen to our residents and the permission to create
brilliant activities for them as a result.”
Kevin Fulton, Staff Member
14. How we deliver – digital
10.5m adults don’t have basic
online skills and 6.7m have
never been online
37% digitally
excluded are social
housing tenants
£164 billion of online sales
lost per year for businesses
that are not online
1 in 3 SMEs don’t have a
website – 2/3rds of SMEs don’t
market themselves online
The benefit of new users
being online is estimated an
average of £1,064 per year
80% of the governments interactions are
with the poorest 25% of the UK population
12.6% of Greater
Manchester (North) have
never used the internet
44,000 adults in Wigan
have never accessed the
internet
Potential 8,123 Wigan
children without home
internet
15. How we deliver - #Digitalwigan
Digital engagement –
top 2 in the country
Digital Workforce – VDIs,
mobile devices, job
allocation
Digital business – digital
growth service
Digital health and social
care – smart technology
Digital communities - superfast broadband and
community investment
Digital Council – 100,000
my account users
Digital residents –
IDEA, apprenticeships
16. How digital ready are we?: Digital Leaders
22400
Twitter
followers
3134
Instagram
followers
3800+
staff working
on VDIs
100,000
MyAccount
registered users
20,000
reports
received online
21829
Facebook
likes
17. How digital ready are we?: Skills & Learning
• It is accessible online and completely free
• Learners are awarded digital badges that
carry points
• Wigan is the first borough in the country to roll
out iDEA to all residents with a range of our
community partners
• A Wigan badge has been developed to track
progress
We have been awarded Pioneer Council status for
delivery of the Duke of York’s iDEA (Inspiring Digital
Enterprise Award)
18. How digital ready are we?: Business Growth
Digital Growth Service
• Delivered in partnership between Wigan Council and the
Business Growth Hub
• Supports local businesses by providing a fully funded
programme of specialist digital growth advice
19. How digital ready are we?:Health & Social Care
Smart in home technology:
The disruptive use of technology to build resilience,
independence and help people live a rich and
vibrant lives connected to their communities
Sharing data:
Share to Care makes it quicker and easier for staff
to get the information they need to look after
patients
20. How digital ready are we?: Community Investment
£500,000
Digital Skills: children without
internet access
Connected Business: digital growth
advisor, infrastructure
Connected Communities: the Deal for
Communities Investment Fund
24. The leadership bit
• Develop a single unifying philosophy which is optimistic, simple
and applies across the place to everyone
• Keep telling this story with illustrations every day to everyone
with humility
• Create political and organisational support for a radical new
model
• Build a strong, cohesive and high energy team
• Constantly listen harder to residents, to staff to community
groups
• Build a demand management strategy not a budget strategy
• Build trust with staff and community to allow them to innovate
and for it to be ok
• 80% of costs are on processing people – shift the funding to
investment in people
• Maintain your personal energy levels!!
25. The Finance bit
• Acted quickly – decisive
• Over programmed savings plan
• Focus on cash flow – not just savings
• Invest to save – community, prevention,
early intervention
• Ensure you have the enabling functions to
make the change
26. Our progress – achievements
Childrens services rated
Good by Ofsted
Reablement service rated as
outstanding by CQC
Increased staff engagement –
best council to work for
Getting people home from
hospital quickly - best in the
north west
Happiest place to live in
Greater Manchester
Recycling rates increased
to over 50%
Pioneering council for the
Duke of York’s iDEA – digital
skills
Public Finance Efficiency
award winner
@
6% reduction in looked
after children since 2010
Healthy life expectancy
increased by seven
years deprived areas
27. The Deal 2030
• Deal 2030 will build on the success of the Deal for the Future
with a plan for the place
• Co-designed and delivered with partners, our communities and
staff
• A bigger focus on inclusion – celebrating diversity and a fair
borough for all
• Big Listening Project – today and all autumn
Hinweis der Redaktion
How we work as a council (social media engagement, my account, digitally enabled staff) and we how we engage with new innovations
How we support businesses – including supporting them to develop an online presence
How we support our residents to develop digital skills (IDEA and digital apprenticeships) and ultimately how we help them to access services online
Using technology to keep people well and independent (social care, digital bungalow etc) and empowering them to engage with their communities
Enabling digital innovation in communities (investment fund)
Summer of Culture digital advertising reached ½ million promoting events to residents and outside the borough.
Further advertising included an events guide (online and print), plus outdoor and press advertising.
Foster - Enquiries running ahead of target. Web visits more than doubled in July and August due to Facebook, press and digital radio advertising.
Adoption - Adoption enquiries on target, with an noticeable increase in August due to Facebook and outdoor advertising. Web visits more than doubled in August and response to the campaign is strengthening.
Resident satisfaction with the way the council runs things has increased by 59% since 2008
Two thirds (65%) of residents stated that they are satisfied with the way Wigan Council runs things in 2016, compared to 41% in 2008. Residents satisfaction in comparator authorities is lower at 52%
Perceptions that the Council provides value for money has increased from 30% in 2008 to 50% in 2016. Higher than the LG Inform average of 47%
Highways – 4% (march 16/17) of principal roads need maintenance (a slight increase from 3% in 15/16), we are in the top quartile nationally. Received recognition for Highways were recognised by APSE for their work, especially their Winter Maintenance programme.
Services users who receive self-directed support is 16/17– (building self reliance within a vulnerable cohort) improved 11% since 2015/16. Above the north west average which is 84.99% and in the top quartile for the NW
7.5 million has been invested in community groups over the last four years.
Impower index
Wigan was found to be the 5th most productive Council in England. This was calculated by taking the rank for each of the 6 lenses – these are Children’s Social Care, Older Adults Social Care, All Age Disability, Health and Social Care Interface, Housing and Homelessness, Waste and Recycling. A single ‘average rank’ was then created so that all authorities were re-ranked, using the average rank for the final ranking. Therefore, the overall ranking rewards authorities who have the best performance across all the domains – not just in one or two areas.
Compared to our 9 statistical neighbours, Wigan ranked 1st in Children’s Social Care and 4th compared to 150 authorities in England; we achieved high ranks on each performance measure except for ‘the percentage of re-referrals’, for which we achieved a mediocre ranking. Health and Social Care was another strongly performing lens for Wigan – we ranked 5th versus 150 authorities in England and 1st versus our statistical neighbours. However, we ranked considerably poorly on three of the performance measures within Health and Social Care; in particular, ‘the number of unplanned reviews due
to a hospital episode (planned or unplanned) as proportion of all LTC clients’ was the lowest ranking within this lens. This shows the importance of looking at each performance measure within a lens, as there can be quite a lot of variation within these in terms of how well we are performing.
Our best ranking compared to 150 authorities was Children’s Social Care (we ranked 4th) and our worst was All Age Disability in which we ranked 71st.
Our best ranking compared to our 9 statistical neighbours was Children’s Social Care and Health and Social Care (we ranked 1st in both of these). Our lowest rankings amongst our statistical neighbours were for Older Adults Social Care and Waste and Recycling – we ranked 4th for both of these.
Productivity is measured based on outcomes per £, so better performance is a result of low spend and high outcomes
Resident satisfaction with the way the council runs things has increased by 59% since 2008
Two thirds (65%) of residents stated that they are satisfied with the way Wigan Council runs things in 2016, compared to 41% in 2008. Residents satisfaction in comparator authorities is lower at 52%
Perceptions that the Council provides value for money has increased from 30% in 2008 to 50% in 2016. Higher than the LG Inform average of 47%
Highways – 4% (march 16/17) of principal roads need maintenance (a slight increase from 3% in 15/16), we are in the top quartile nationally. Received recognition for Highways were recognised by APSE for their work, especially their Winter Maintenance programme.
Services users who receive self-directed support is 16/17– (building self reliance within a vulnerable cohort) improved 11% since 2015/16. Above the north west average which is 84.99% and in the top quartile for the NW
7.5 million has been invested in community groups over the last four years.
Impower index
Wigan was found to be the 5th most productive Council in England. This was calculated by taking the rank for each of the 6 lenses – these are Children’s Social Care, Older Adults Social Care, All Age Disability, Health and Social Care Interface, Housing and Homelessness, Waste and Recycling. A single ‘average rank’ was then created so that all authorities were re-ranked, using the average rank for the final ranking. Therefore, the overall ranking rewards authorities who have the best performance across all the domains – not just in one or two areas.
Compared to our 9 statistical neighbours, Wigan ranked 1st in Children’s Social Care and 4th compared to 150 authorities in England; we achieved high ranks on each performance measure except for ‘the percentage of re-referrals’, for which we achieved a mediocre ranking. Health and Social Care was another strongly performing lens for Wigan – we ranked 5th versus 150 authorities in England and 1st versus our statistical neighbours. However, we ranked considerably poorly on three of the performance measures within Health and Social Care; in particular, ‘the number of unplanned reviews due
to a hospital episode (planned or unplanned) as proportion of all LTC clients’ was the lowest ranking within this lens. This shows the importance of looking at each performance measure within a lens, as there can be quite a lot of variation within these in terms of how well we are performing.
Our best ranking compared to 150 authorities was Children’s Social Care (we ranked 4th) and our worst was All Age Disability in which we ranked 71st.
Our best ranking compared to our 9 statistical neighbours was Children’s Social Care and Health and Social Care (we ranked 1st in both of these). Our lowest rankings amongst our statistical neighbours were for Older Adults Social Care and Waste and Recycling – we ranked 4th for both of these.
Productivity is measured based on outcomes per £, so better performance is a result of low spend and high outcomes