Public services: the value of cultural commissioningCultural Commissioning Programme National Seminars 2014

Seminar 1Camden Centre, London Friday 6th June 2014 Chaired by Robin Simpson (Voluntary Arts)

Seminar 2Cast, Doncaster Tuesday 10th June 2014 Chaired by Jane Wilson (Chair of AD:UK)

This series of two national seminars brings together arts and cultural organisations and public service commissioners to explore ways in which arts and culture can deliver effective public service outcomes.

The public service landscape has changed. Services are increasingly delivered through commissioning and commissioners are looking for improved outcomes. Many are also looking for services which help local communities build resilience, as part of preventative strategies to enable resource management at a time of reducing budgets1.

Arts and cultural organisations equally face financial pressures as grant aid diminishes. Many are looking to develop alternative income sources through delivering public service contracts, and to use creative skills and cultural approaches to deliver public service outcomes.

Whether you are from the arts and cultural sector, or are a commissioner, these seminars will help you: • Understand how arts and cultural

organisations can work creatively with individuals and communities to tackle social issues and challenges

• Discover innovative artistic and cultural practice which engages people, and helps deliver better health, wellbeing and stronger communities

• Develop networks to increase your effectiveness in cultural commissioning for better outcomes.

The seminars feature:

• Key note speeches by leaders in the arts and cultural sector and in strategic commissioning

• Practical examples of commissioning cultural programmes to deliver better

Public services: the value of cultural commissioningCultural Commissioning Programme National Seminars 2014

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Standard organisation trading at above £25,000 per year Delegate £85 Combined 2 Delegate places £125 Small organisations trading at less than £25,000 per yearDelegate £60 Combined 2 Delegate places £100 Student / Unemployed person £50 Display Area (including 1 delegate place) £150

Delegates’ fees are exclusive of VAT, which will be charged at the standard rate of 20%.

outcomes for mental health & wellbeing, older people, places and communities

• Peer to peer learning on cross-cutting issues, including: collaborative working; demonstrating impact; engaging users in service design; relationship between high artistic / cultural quality and public service delivery.

Arts organisations, museums, libraries and archives that want to develop know-how and networks for engaging in commissioning will benefit from these seminars. So will commissioners working in health, public health, adult social care, children and families, community cohesion, regeneration and education who want better outcomes and better engagement with target communities.

The national seminar programme is a joint initiative between the Cultural Commissioning Programme (CCP),

Arts Development UK and the National Culture & Leisure Forum. It is supported by The National Archives.

CCP is an Arts Council England funded programme to help the arts and cultural sector engage in public sector commissioning and to support a greater awareness amongst public service commissioners of the potential for arts and culture to deliver their outcomes. Sign up to stay informed at: www.ncvo.org/CCProg

The London seminar is also part of the London Creativity & Wellbeing Week.

1 LGiU research in 2013 found that local authorities were deflecting an average annual cost increase of 4.1 per cent as a result of investment in preventative services and service redesign.

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Seminar 1

Camden Centre, London Friday 6th June 2014

Chaired by Robin Simpson (Voluntary Arts)

Seminar 2

Cast, Doncaster Tuesday 10th June 2014

Chaired by Jane Wilson (Chair of AD:UK)

09.30 Registration and refreshments

09.50 Seminar Introduction: Chair for the day Robin Simpson (Voluntary Arts)

10.00 Keynote Presentations: Cultural Commissioning - an overview from

• The Arts & Cultural Sector:Vikki Haywood, Chair of the Royal Society for Arts (RSA)

• The Public Service Commissioning sector: Carole Wood, Director of Public Health, Gateshead Council

10.30 Questions from the Floor

10.40 Morning Breakout Sessions

Breakout 1: Delivering commissioner outcomes through arts and cultural programmes.

A shared presentation:

• Arts on prescription to deliver improved mental health and wellbeing: The commissioning of an arts on prescription scheme for Wiltshire: Alex Coulter, Arts in Health South West and Frances Chinemana, Public Health Consultant for Wiltshire.

• Commissioning of Plymouth Museums: Rachel Silcock is the commissioner for Adult Social Care at Plymouth City Council and is responsible for commissioning the Plymouth Museums Arts and Minds project.

Breakout 2: The relationship between high artistic and cultural quality and the delivery of good public service outcomes.

A shared presentation:

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Public services: the value of cultural commissioning

Venue The Camden Centre, Euston Rd, London WC1H 9AU

Date Friday 6th June 2014

Programme

• A quality framework for arts & health. Jenny Peevers and Kate Gant, Creative Health Community Interest Company, will talk about this Arts Council England funded project to develop an online toolkit to support artistic practice and quality in an arts and health context.

• A quality framework for participatory arts: Toby Lowe, Helix Arts, will talk about the development of a framework for quality participatory arts in a commissioning context in the North East.

Breakout 3: Collaborative working to secure commissions.

A shared presentation:

• Gloucestershire Your Future: a collaboration between six arts organisations across Gloucestershire to deliver outcomes for health, wellbeing and resilient communities. Pippa Jones: Create Gloucestershire & Deborah Rees: Director, Roses Theatre, Tewkesbury, will showcase how collaborative working can secure and deliver commissions, and will discuss Your Future, an innovative cross art-form project for families who have experienced domestic abuse.

• Six Ways to Wellbeing: a collaborative delivery and support programme by Kent County Council Arts & Culture Service and Public Health. Supported by Artswork Bridge South East and the Royal Opera House Bridge, this project demonstrates collaboration across a number of arts organisations to secure public health commissions. Presented by Laura Bailey, Kent County Council.

Breakout 4: Demonstrating impact on public service outcomes.

A shared presentation:

• Evaluating Creative Scotland’s Arts & Criminal Justice Programme to understand its impact on offenders and those at risk of offending.

Creative Scotland’s programme aims to embed arts and creative activities in the daily life of prisons and in the support services for ex-prisoners. BOP Consulting are the programme’s evaluators. Presented by Richard Naylor, Director of BOP Consulting.

• Partnering with academic institutions to evaluate impact: Belinda Sosinowicz, Arts and Health Consultant & Researcher and Age Exchange’s Arts & Health Co-ordinator, will discuss RADIQL, a major Reminiscence Arts and Dementia: impact on quality of life research project, which is developing a creative model of excellence in the provision of person/relationship centred care for older people. Funded with a grant of nearly £600,000 by Guys and St Thomas’s Charity it is evaluated by Royal Holloway University, London and in collaboration with Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation lead dementia nurses, SLAM and the Alzheimer’s Society.

11.30 Refreshment Break

12.00 Morning Breakout Sessions: Repeated as above

12.50 Lunch & networking

13.50 Keynote Presentation: Sally Bagwell, NPC Launch of research report for the Cultural Commissioning Programme, including findings on social value of arts and cultural activities.

14.10 Questions from the Floor

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14. 20 Afternoon Breakout Sessions

Breakout 1: Cultural commissioning to deliver outcomes for older people.

• Imagine: Bringing arts to people in care and changing the perception of care homes in the surrounding community. A commission-based partnership between Abbeyfield Society (which manages a range of care homes), Nottingham City council, City Arts and Nottingham University’s Institute of Mental Health: Sharon Scaniglia, Nottingham City Council, Jill Burder, Fundraising Manager at Abbeyfield Society, Kate Duncan, Programme Manager at City Arts.

Breakout 2: Cultural commissioning to deliver mental health & wellbeing outcomes.

A shared presentation:

• Culture Shift’s commission from Adult Social Care and Public Health to increase person-centred support and improve wellbeing for people with learning disabilities. Presented by: Catherine Orbach, Co-Director of Culture Shift, Julia Roberts, Culture Shift Associate & Project Manager of Arts Connect, West Midlands.

• Suffolk Libraries – commissioning of mental health and wellbeing information service by Adult Services Mental Health. Presented by Krystal Vittles, Innovation & Development Manager with Suffolk Libraries.

Breakout 3: Cultural commissioning to deliver place-based outcomes.

A shared presentation:

• Developing a cultural offer for a regeneration area with diverse needs, Pendle, Lancashire. Paul Kelly, Senior Arts Development Manager, Lancashire County Council, and Paul Hartley, In-Situ, showcase support for an arts collective located in a library (Brierfield in Pendle, an area with a diverse ethnic community) to deepen the

cultural offer and strengthen the sense of place and identity.

• Encounters Arts Devon: working with diverse commissioners to foster sustainability and inter-connected communities. A presentation of work commissioned by a range of local authorities to deliver neighbourhood-based creative engagement and projects that inspire creativity and exchange between people of all ages and backgrounds. Presented by Ruth Ben-Tovim, Creative Director of Encounters Arts.

Breakout 4: Engaging users in service design.

A shared presentation:

• South London & Maudsley NHS Trust (SLAM): Helen Shearn discusses commissioning arts programmes to support people dealing with mental health issues through their arts strategy.

• Entelechy Arts & The Albany - listening to the voice of users in service design: David Slater, Entelechy Arts, and Gavin Barlow, The Albany, discuss ways of designing services which draw on voices of users and volunteers, and how this feeds into work with London Borough of Lewisham on what constitutes good commissioning.

15.10 Refreshment Break

15.40 Afternoon Breakout Sessions: Repeated as above

16.35 Conference Summary: Conference Chair: An overview of comments and observations from participants gathered throughout the day, and how these may be reflected in the roll-out of the Cultural Commissioning Programme.

Changes to programme The programme was correct at the time of going to press. Arts Development UK reserves the right to change speakers and the conference schedule as appropriate.

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9.30 Registration and refreshments

9.50 Seminar Introduction: Chair for the day Jane Wilson: Chair of Arts Development UK

10.00 Keynote Presentations: Cultural Commissioning – an overview from

• The Arts & Cultural sector: Linden Rowley, consultant who has worked extensively with the cultural sector and with public service commissioners on issues of cultural commissioning

• The Public Service Commissioning sector: Paul McGarry, Senior Strategy Manager for Public Health Manchester

10.30 Questions from the Floor

10.40 Morning Breakout Sessions

Breakout 1: Breakout 1: Delivering commissioner outcomes through arts and cultural programmes.

TIN Arts – commissioned by Durham County Council to enable people with autism to develop self-confidence and improved communication skills. TIN Arts is an innovative social enterprise that creates, inspires, delivers and manages participatory dance, arts and cultural programmes for people of all ages and abilities across the North East of England. Presented by Martin Wilson, Executive Director of Tin Arts.

Breakout 2: The relationship between high artistic and cultural quality and the delivery of good public service outcomes

A shared presentation:

• A quality framework for arts & health. Jenny Peevers, Creative Health Community

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Public services: the value of cultural commissioning

Venue Cast, Waterdale, Doncaster DN1 3BU

Date Tuesday 10th June 2014

Programme

Interest Company, will talk about this Arts Council England funded project to develop an online toolkit to support artistic practice and quality in an arts and health context.

• A quality framework for participatory arts: Toby Lowe, Helix Arts, will talk about the development of a framework for quality participatory arts in a commissioning context in the North East.

Breakout 3: Collaborative working to secure commissions

A shared presentation:

• Gloucestershire Your Future: a collaboration between six arts organisations across Gloucestershire to deliver outcomes for health, wellbeing and resilient communities. Mel Scaffold, Create Gloucestershire & Deborah Rees: Director, Roses Theatre, Tewkesbury will showcase how collaborative working can secure and deliver commissions, and will discuss Your Future, an innovative cross art-form project for families who have experienced domestic abuse.

• Six Ways to Wellbeing: a collaborative delivery and support programme by Kent County Council Arts & Culture Service and Public Health. Supported by Artswork Bridge South East and the Royal Opera House Bridge, this project demonstrates collaboration across a number of arts organisations to secure public health commissions. Presented by Laura Bailey, Kent County Council.

Breakout 4: Demonstrating impact on public service outcomes.

A shared presentation:

• Evaluating Creative Scotland’s Arts & Criminal Justice Programme to understand its impact on offenders and those at risk of offending. Creative Scotland’s programme aims to embed arts and creative activities in the daily life of prisons and in the support service

for ex-prisoners. BOP Consulting are the programme’s evaluators. Presented by Richard Naylor, Director of BOP Consulting.

• Partnering with academic institutions to evaluate impact: Belinda Sosinowicz, Arts and Health Consultant & Researcher and Age Exchange’s Arts & Health Co-ordinator, will discuss RADIQL, a major Reminiscence Arts and Dementia: impact on quality of life research project, which is developing a creative model of excellence in the provision of person/relationship centred care for older people. Funded with a grant of nearly £600,000 by Guys and St Thomas’s Charity it is evaluated by Royal Holloway University, London and in collaboration with Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation lead dementia nurses, SLAM and the Alzheimer’s Society.

11.30 Refreshment Break

12.00 Morning Breakout Sessions: Repeated as above

12.50 Lunch & networking

13.50 Keynote Presentation: Sally Bagwell, NPC Launch of research report for the Cultural Commissioning Programme, including findings on social value of arts and cultural activities.

14.10 Questions from the Floor

14.20 Afternoon Breakout Sessions

Breakout 1: Cultural commissioning to deliver outcomes for older people.

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A shared presentation:

• National Museums Liverpool: a training programme for health and social care staff working with older people with dementia. Carol Rogers, Executive Director, Education & Visitors will talk about a Department of Health commissioned training programme which is now being rolled out in other regions.

• Manchester’s ‘Age Friendly City’ initiative: a public health programme which is working with arts and cultural organisations across the city to encourage them to adopt age-friendly policies. Presented by Sherry Dewynter, Valuing Older People Cultural Offer Manager.

Breakout 2: Cultural commissioning to deliver mental health & wellbeing outcomes.

A shared presentation:

• Leaps and Bounds: partnership with Leeds Adult Social Care to improve wellbeing in adults with learning disabilities, by supporting their communications skills, physical fitness and confidence as part of transition from day-care services and enabling service user’s access to mainstream organisations. Presented by Wieke Eringa, Yorkshire Dance, with a colleague from the Adult Social Care Team.

• Writing on the Wall: What’s Your Story? A commissioned partnership project with the Mental Health Consortium, the Stoke Association and Refugee Action, using creative writing to uncover stories from unheard voices, to promote health and wellbeing. Presented by Madeline Heneghan, Director, Writing on the Wall.

Breakout 3: Cultural commissioning to deliver place-based outcomes

• Devon Libraries: using libraries to secure commissions to support stronger communities and places. Colin Bray, Development Officer at Devon Libraries

discusses commissioning activity across several areas of prevention and wellbeing, which support stronger localities and communities, including lessons learned in the process.

• The Sage Gateshead: Wendy Smith, Head of Strategy & Enterprise, will be discussing delivery of place-based outcomes from Sage’s In Harmony programme and a Cabinet Office commission for creative work with vulnerable adults and young people.

Breakout 4: Engaging users in service design

• Birmingham City Council’s Community-based Cultural Pilot Programme: Symon Easton, Head of Cultural Commissioning at Birmingham City Council, describes working in partnership with local residents to develop cultural services that meet their priorities and creating local arts forums in partnership with communities. This is organised through a Local Arts Forum in each district, supported by Birmingham’s major arts organisations.

15.10 Refreshment Break

15.40 Afternoon Breakout Sessions: Repeated as above

16.35 Conference Summary:Conference Chair. An overview of comments and observations from participants gathered throughout the day, and how these may be reflected in the roll-out of the Cultural Commissioning Programme.

Changes to programme The programme was correct at the time of going to press. Arts Development UK reserves the right to change speakers and the conference schedule as appropriate.

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