On Thursday 26 October, Manchester City Council hosted a LARIA North West event to allow local shortlisted and winning entries to the 2017 LARIA Research Impact Awards showcase their work, and a session from Public Health England.

Most engaging presentation of local area research (highly commended) – Owen Richardson, Kirklees Council
Online and redefined – refreshing our approach to the JSNA

Owen Richardson talks about the Kirklees JSA

Best use of local area research 1 – (shortlisted) – Elisa Bullen, Manchester City Council
Securing a ward boundary review using a local forecasting model

Elisa Bullen talking about ward boundary reviews using the MCCFM in Manchester

Matt Hennesesey, Public Health England
Intelligent design

Matt Hennessey talks about Intelligence Design at the LARIA NW event

Best use of community safety or policing research – (winner) – Rebecca Eckersley, Lancashire County Council
Understanding complex antisocial behaviour cases

Findings from complex anti-social behaviour cases research

Best use of local area research 2 – (winner) – Paul Holme, Manchester City Council
Troubled Families Evaluation 2017

Troubled Families evaluation in Manchester

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Congratulations go to:

• Lancashire County Council for winning ‘Best use of community safety or policing research’ with ‘Understanding of complex anti-social behaviour cases including cases presented at partner riot assessment conference (ASBRAC)’;
• Manchester City Council for winning ‘Best use of local area research’ with ‘Troubled Families evaluation 2017’.

The awards were presented at the annual LARIA conference in Sheffield.

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New researcher of the year (highly commended) – Haydn Brown, Manchester City Council – Light rail and the Manchester property market – part 1; Light rail and the Manchester property market – part 2; Light rail and the Manchester property market – part 3 

Most engaging presentation of local area research (shortlisted) – Steven Hibbert, Manchester City Council – PSR Outcomes Framework      

Best use of local area research 1 (highly commended) – Gemma Jones, Lancashire County Council – Breaking the boundaries_service planning based on need not construct 

Best use of local area research 2 – (shortlisted) – Tim Robinson, Manchester City Council – Neighbourhood intelligence (confidential)

Best use of social care or health research 1 – (highly commended) – Farhat Abbas, Lancashire County Council – Saving the children – making infant deaths everybody’s business 

Best use of social care or health research 2 – (highly commended) – Charlotte Harris, Revealing Reality/Wirral Council – Barriers of binary thinking_tackling health related worklessness on the Wirral

Best use of social care or health research 3 – (shortlisted) – Leo Wall, Manchester City Council and Manchester CCGs Business Intelligence – Understanding health demands in Manchester

Further information from: l.frost@manchester.gov.uk

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Winner – Lambeth Council – Neighbourhood Enhancement Programme

Summary

Lambeth Council has successfully delivered a community-led street improvement programme across six wards over a 12 month period, based on firm evidence of popular support.

Improvements have included the creation of new community spaces and play areas, green routes through estates, educational projects and planting of over 300 trees, as well as a range of road safety measures.

Working closely with other departments and agencies has helped us to quickly deliver improvements to services and facilities for which we are not responsible.

We engaged the community in three phases, using a wide range of approaches, successfully encouraging community groups to lead the engagement in some areas.

Around 8% of residents participated.  We received many compliments, for example:

“I feel you are working towards the world I want to live in.  Thank you for your hard work”.

“I just wanted to say how impressed I am with the letter I received asking for my opinion on which improvements I would prefer in my own area.  The information was very succinct but comprehensive… all very professional.  Most importantly, it feels good to live somewhere where the opinion of the locals is asked for and stands for something”.

Results

The community-based Stockwell Partnership carried out 528 minority language face-to-face interviews for us in restaurants, hairdressers, mosques, playgrounds, after-school clubs and other venues with Portuguese, Spanish, Polish, Arabic, Somali, Tigrinian and Amharic speakers, amounting to almost half of the total responses we received from residents of the area.

Reference

• There are feedback reports on each of the six NEP areas (and a seventh on ‘out of scope’ suggestions), on the NEP page of the Lambeth Council website
  

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Winner – Manchester City Council – Integrated Data and Network Analysis

Summary

In 2011, Manchester City Council like all other local authorities was tasked by the National Troubled Families Unit with identifying families that met the criteria for the Troubled Families Programme.

The national criteria consisted of three headline measures around youth crime / anti-social behaviour; poor school attendance; and worklessness. This is also supported by a fourth local discretion criterion which allows local authorities to include a basket of indicators that represent local priorities.

Manchester City Council realised that the troubled families programme would only be successful and sustainable if the local implementation responded to changing demand and a broader range of measures that the core national measures. Therefore, Manchester City Council worked with a range of partners who deliver local services to develop data sharing processes and agreements to access data.

This rich data pool presented a major ‘big data’ opportunity, as well as an analysis and technology challenge. Manchester City Council worked in partnership with the IBM to implement a bespoke version of their iBase software.

The iBase solution is a SQL database containing some 2.5 million records, connected by 3.5 million links, and allows for complex network analysis between people, locations, incidents and programmes/interventions.

Results

This forward-thinking approach to what could have been a simple data matching exercise across a small number of core national criteria, gave Manchester maximum flexibility.

As the national programme moves from troubled to complex dependency, Manchester are able to lead a discussion around how evidence should inform programmes

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Winner – Lancashire County Council – long-term conditions JSNA

Summary

This JSNA investigated the needs and assets of Lancashire’s citizens in terms of what the World Health Organization (WHO) has identified as the four main types of preventable long-term conditions:

• cancers;
• cardiovascular diseases;
• chronic respiratory diseases; and
• diabetes.

These conditions are extremely costly to NHS and the local economy.

The assessment combined a number of pieces of work, which included:

• a scoping event with stakeholders from the public, private and third sectors;
• a review of national/local drivers;
• a review of national/international literature to identify the nature and extent of the problem, its determinants and its personal, family and societal impacts;
• analysis and interpretation of both primary and secondary data from a variety of sources, grouped into four main categories: determinants, burden (morbidity, mortality and unscheduled care), support services, end of life and assets;
• mapping adult social care services;
• a presentation of the key findings and prioritisation workshop with the reference group to identify the main priorities for long-term conditions in Lancashire;
• a review of existing national/international literature, guidelines and best practice evidence to produce of a set of strategic recommendations to address priority issues.

The findings and recommendations have been used directly to inform policy and service redesign.

Results

The team worked with Lancashire LINk (now Healthwatch Lancashire) and Lancaster University to analyse over 500 service user and carer stories describing what is important to them about their health and care. The findings gave a much greater understanding of needs, experiences and assets and helped us shaped our recommendations.

Reference

• The main Lancashire report and a set of eight CCG and 14 local authority summary reports have been published on the Lancashire JSNA website along with a raft of supporting materials including datasets, charts, funnel plots, service mapping, chapter articles, literature and hyper-links to other reference material

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Winner  Lancashire County Council and Lancashire Constabulary -Improving vehicle security in Lancashire – the anti-theft screw operation

Summary

During 2012/13, Lancashire recorded year-on-year reductions of -18% for theft from a vehicle and interfering with a vehicle within the eastern side of the county. However, the theft of number plates from vehicles increased by 59%, with 236 plates being stolen during the same period. With stolen plates being used to commit further crimes, such as cash-in-transit robbery and drive-offs (making off without payments) at petrol stations, this became an increasing concern.

In addition, burglary and non-domestic burglary recorded had increased. Analysis showed this was partly due to properties and outbuildings being left insecure and opportunistic thieves taking advantage. But also it found that offenders were also using stolen plates to avoid detection from automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras.

The community safety partnership analyst researched methods and submitted a funding bid to LANPAC (the Lancashire Partnership Against Crime) for anti-theft screws. This was for 750 cars in the three targeted districts. The analyst then organised and implemented a security initiative to fit the screws to residents’ vehicles for free, whilst discussing crime prevention measures with them. Crimestoppers volunteers also attended the event to engage with the public.

Results

The analysis revealed that people thought that number plate theft was a minor issue, but in fact it had much wider criminal implications. Residents admitted they were somewhat naive in their previous approach in their precautions to vehicle and home security, as they didn’t realise the more serious context.

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