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Welfare BenefitsRevenues, Benefits and Customer Services
Helen Bilham – Business Support and Improvement Manager
Leigh Noall – Business Development Officer
Introduction
• Our Service• Overview of Cornwall’s demographics• Welfare Team:
• Resources• Activity• Results
• Mapping of welfare provision• The future• Questions/contact details
Our Service
• £250,000,000 Council Tax collected• £132,000,000 Business Rates collected• £196,000,000 Benefits paid out• Increase in benefits caseload• Shrinking resource• Coalition gov’t proposals for benefits
Cornwall’s demographics
Source: Department for Communities and Local Government (2007)
The English Indices of Deprivation 2007
Resources
• Six Welfare Visiting Officers (5.6 FTE)
• One Admin Support Officer (0.5 FTE)
Welfare Team activity•Maximisation of all welfare benefits
•Take-up activity targeted in partnership with Community Intelligence
•Advocacy and representation at tribunals
•Assistance and advice – signposting to other specialist advisors
•Partnerships – e.g. Cornwall Fire & Rescue Service
Results
2009/10 - £2,203,084
Cost £122k – a positive gain of 18:1
2010/11 - £2,217,328 (January)
77 pence in the pound is spent in the local economy (£1.7m last year).
Examples of Data CapturedData Detail Use
Customer age group Under 16/16-24/25-59/over 60 Demographic analysis
Number of school age children in household
To measure effectiveness of activity against Council’s aim to reduce child poverty
Source of referral Cornwall Fire & Rescue Service, Age UK, Mental Health Team, NHS, Adult Social Care and many others
To measure effectiveness of joint working with partners
‘Other’ welfare work Such as attendance at public meetings and those arranged by partners
Time input ratio to results
Take-up activity Data to capture activity such as targeted mail shots and community based activity
To measure results of take-up activities and learn from each in order to improve the next
Inter-agency work Meetings/liaison with DWP agencies to build develop joint strategies and take-up campaigns
Building/strengthening partnerships to improve service to our customers and communities
Referral successful Yes/No To measure percentage of cases where benefit gained (that would not have otherwise have been claimed)
Financial information Broken down into benefit types How much of a real difference is the Welfare Team making to individuals, communities and the County in financial terms
Benefit types All welfare benefits To identify market trends and inform forward planning
Mapping of welfare provision
• Who exactly does what, where?
• Synergies, efficiencies, simplification for customers
Contacts
Helen Bilham – Business Support and Improvement Manager
01736 336545 helen.bilham@cornwall.gov.uk
Leigh Noall – Business Development Officer
01736 336532 leigh.noall@cornwall.gov.uk
Cornwall CouncilCounty HallTruro TR1 3AY
Tel: 0300 1234 100www.cornwall.gov.uk
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