View the slides from the Community First presentation at the conference and relaunch event on Friday 6th November at Bletchingdon village hall. Speakers included: 1. Cllr Barry Wood, Leader of Cherwell District Council 'New housing developments: role of the voluntary and community sector' 2. Maggie Scott, Chief Policy Officer at Oxfordshire County Council: 'Challenges (or opportunities?)' 3. Rachel Coney, CEO Healthwatch Oxfordshire 'An ageing population: importance of community support'

2. Welcome
Jonathan Reuvid
Chair of Community First Oxfordshire

3. Introducing Community
First Oxfordshire
Jon Bright
CEO, Community First Oxfordshire

4. Looking Back - 2014 / 15
A Year of Delivery and Innovation
Theme Communities Supported
Community-Led Planning 63 Communities
Neighbourhood Planning 14 Communities
Village Halls & Shops 64 VH Committees and Community Shops
Community Transport 20 Community Transport Groups
Health & Ageing • Red Arrow Driver Team set up
• Dementia Friendly Communities Report
• Village Companies Model Developed
Supported Transport Consultation Independent facilitator for County Council
New Housing & Communities Provision Study for Cherwell District Council
Satisfaction with ORCC services Survey results: 3.5 / 4

5. Community First Oxfordshire
Looking Ahead
Housing and Community Planning:
• Neighbourhood Planning
• Community-Led Planning
• New Housing Development
Community Enterprise:
• Community Buildings (1): Village Halls and Community Centres
• Community Buildings (2) Shops, Post Offices, Pubs
• Supporting Business and Community Enterprise
Health, Ageing and Transport:
• Dementia-friendly Communities
• Community Transport Support & Red Arrow Team
• Strengthening Community Support and Improving Care
AND:
• Community Oil Buying Scheme

6. New Housing Developments –
Role of the Voluntary &
Community Sector
Cllr Barry Wood
Leader of Cherwell District Council

7. Challenges (and Opportunities?)
Maggie Scott
Chief Policy Officer

8. The Challenge
• Deficit reduction is part of it
• But fundamentally it is not
about money…
• …a philosophy seeking a
smaller state
• Where government does less
and people do more for
themselves
• So what does that mean?

9. The budget squeeze
• Reduced government funding
• Growing demand for care
• New responsibilities eg
concessionary bus passes
• Inflation
• Council tax rises are restricted

10. Rising Demand for Services

11. Spending on the vulnerable

12. £88m to be
saved by
2017/18
£204m
saved since
2010/11
Savings made or planned
2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18
£35m
£90m
£127m
£170m
£204m
£247m
£268m
£292m

13. £50m*on top of £292m already saved or planned
*worst case scenario
Currently consulting on saving a
further

14. Changing Role of the Council
• Enable and facilitate
• Meet statutory requirements
• Some things will have to stop

15. Implications for the voluntary and
community sector
• We will
– Still commission many services
– Provide support in kind
– Support infrastructure for the sector
– Wherever possible want to work with communities to
help themselves
• We need you to
– Develop local and innovative solutions
– Work in partnership with us to try and fill the space as we
and others in the public sector reduce
– Work with others to provide the voice of the sector

16. New models
• Financial pressure is leading to creation of
new models within the public sector – locally
and nationally
• Eg Devolution from national government to
Oxfordshire (with District Councils, Local
Enterprise Partnership, Clinical Commissioning
Group & others)
• Eg Oxfordshire Together….

17. Oxfordshire Together
• Currently working with Town and Parish councils Alternative ways to
deliver services across a range of areas;
• Enable local communities shape, design and tailor local services;
• Build on previous work with communities (grass cutting, youth
provision and libraries);
• One size does not fit all;
• Flexible approach & open to suggestions from communities.

18. A New Strategic Role for Communities
NOW FUTURE
Grass cutting
Community libraries
Community transport
Youth centres
Community care
Furniture cleaning
Salt bin management
Winter clearing
Children’s centres
School Crossing Patrol

19. Questions?
Localities team contact:
localities@oxfordshire.gov.uk
Oxfordshire Together:
www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/oxfordshiretogether

20. Working together to improve the
quality of care. How can
communities help?
Rachel Coney
CEO, Healthwatch Oxfordshire

21. Working together to improve the
quality of care. How can
communities help?

22. About us
Healthwatch Oxfordshire exists to be the
independent watchdog and champion for
people who use health* and social care
services in Oxfordshire.
Healthwatch Oxfordshire’s vision is that
people are actively involved in shaping the
health and social care services they use in
Oxfordshire.
* “health” includes public health throughout

23. To do this we:
• Gather information about people’s experiences of using health
and social care services in Oxfordshire and make it available to
the public.
• Use this information to make recommendations to relevant
local and national organisations about how local services,
policies and strategies need to change and improve and, where
possible, secure their agreement to make improvements.
• Help hold those in charge of local health and social care
services to account for putting our recommendations into
practice – and do this in a way that is visible to the public.
• Provide advice and information to help individuals access health
and social care services in Oxfordshire.

24. Our unique role in the system
• If we write to commissioners and providers with
recommendations they have to respond.
• We have the opportunity of a standing agenda item at
Health and Wellbeing Board and Health Overview and
Scrutiny to hold people to account for the responses they
make.
• We work closely with the Care Quality Commission.

25. Project with ORCC - Sustaining dementia friendly
communities
• Grant from HWO to ORCC
• ORCC designed project methodology, with expert advice from
HWO
• ORCC carried out the research and drafted the report
• HWO provided advice on editing report and drafting
recommendations
• HWO published report and sent it to the people who could make
the changes recommended
• We did media interviews together and involved community groups
who had contributed a case study

26. What report concluded
Local community organisations are vital in ensuring local
communities are dementia friendly
They can only fulfil this role if:
• They have access to ongoing training and development support from the
public sector
• GPs know what they do and how they can help
• GPs can and will use “social prescribing” to signpost people with dementia
and their families to the local organisations who can support them.
This needs local government , the NHS and neighbourhood
organisations to work together.

27. Dignity in Care – partnership with AGE UK
Oxfordshire
• HWO undertook research into how well Dignity in Care standards
are delivered in Oxfordshire .
• This required partnerships with NHS, social care, private
providers, the public and other voluntary organisations.
• Volunteers were vital
• AGE UK ran a Dignity in Care Awards scheme
• A report combining HWO findings and examples of great care Age
UK had identified was published
• Age UK’s influence and HWO statutory powers were used to secure
commitments to action.

28. What the report concluded
• There is some great care being delivered in Oxfordshire,
but not everything is perfect.
• Staff do not always communicate with patients /service
users and their families appropriately, particularly when
they have complex communication needs.
• People are still afraid to complain about poor care.
• There are instances of abuse in Oxfordshire.
• People are still not always properly involved in decision
making about their care.

29. Working together to get change
• Much more influence by working together
• Project needed the content produced by communities – individuals
and organisations.
• The messages would not have been listened to by the statutory
sector without Healthwatch’ statutory powers.
• The statutory sector has to lead the way in making the
improvements.
• BUT - they need partnerships with organisations like AGE UK to
make that change.
• We can only monitor whether things improve if communities keep
bringing us information about the quality of care.

30. Working together in the future
• Can you keep telling us about the things local patients and
social care users are most worried about?
• Do you know a site we should Enter and View?
• Do you know an organisation that would like to work with
us?
• Can you help us with our outreach programme?
Contact us on:
•01865 520520
•hello@Healthwatch.co.uk

31. Questions & Answers Session
Revd Canon Glyn Evans
Rural Officer for Diocese of Oxford &
President of Community First
Oxfordshire

32. Networking / Information Stalls
• Housing & Community Planning - Fiona Mullins & Tom McCulloch
• Health Transport & Ageing – Emily Lewis-Edwards
• Community Enterprise – Lynne Newin
• Community First Oil & Membership – Sue Hunt

33. Thank You!
Don’t forget to visit our new website:
www.communityfirstoxon.org