New
Features
What's Going On??
There are now over 100 partnerships using
The Funding Project. So, we have added a "Google" style search that
lets you find out about projects in your area and elsewhere.
 This
is a keyword search that looks for your word through the main text field of the
problem Analysis and the Project/Action description.
The search is found from the “Search” item of the main menu.
You will see there are now two parts to the search screen. Part 1 is just the
original search. You use it to find projects/actions where you already know the
name of the manager, or the action number or the title.
Part 2 is new. Here you enter specific words or phrases (phrases need to be
surrounded with double quotes. This example shows a search for “bicycle theft”.
The exciting think is, that this is a live link with hundreds of other
Community Safety staff. You are finding out about what other partnerships are
doing TODAY, what works and what doesn't. And you can see who is working on
those problems.
 To
the right of the screen, is the button that runs the search. There is a check
box so you can restrict search to just your area, or un-check to extend the
search outside your own area.
Managing Funds From Different Sources
The Funding Project was
originally designed to manage fund streams managed through one source.
We now find that in LAA and LSP areas, the funding mainly comes through the LAA
itself, but there can be some streams provided by the Government Office, or by
the local council, or even by an external body such as a charity.
The Funding Project can now be
set up so that any user in any office can be nominated as a fund manager, and
allowed to manage their own fund stream (but not others). Managing many streams
from different sources, all feeding into one action plan can be an
administrative mightmare. With the new features, ALL the fund streams for a
partnership can be monitored and tracked online in exactly the same way, with
full accountability and audit trails.
LAA/LSP Programme Management
The Funding Project began with
community safety partnerships. But we now find it is being used for other
blocks of the LAA. In fact, any block of work in an LAA or LSP, or the whole
LAA can be magaged in just the same way. To find out more, contact us on 0017
907 9921.
Safer Neightbourhood Teams
Funding Project performs online management of community partnerships, linking
up people of different organisations who need to collaborate in delivering an
action plan. That is exactly what we now have with the new police Safer
Neighbourhood teams.
To help with this, we have added features that allow the SARA problem Solving
model to be used with Neighbourhood teams, potentially linking dozens of teams
and hundreds of police officers, PCSOs etc, wherever they are based.
Contact us for more details of
this.
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