Paul McGarry Senior Strategy Manager Public Health Manchester Manchester City Council

1. Paul McGarry Senior Strategy Manager Public Health Manchester Manchester City Council

2. Overview • Ageing policy in local government • Ageing in the city • Citizenship • AFM Development Plan • Neighbourhoods • Knowledge and innovation • Services • Information • Governance

3. Ageing in local government: Key policy initiatives 1 • BGOP (1997) • All our tomorrows (2002) • BGOP/Audit Commission (2004) • A Sure Start to Later Life (2005) • Opportunity Age (2005) • POPPS (2006) • Link Age Plus (2006)

4. Comprehensive Performance Assessment (2006) Don’t stop me now (2008) Lifetime homes/lifetime neighbourhoods (2008) Elbourne Review (2008) Voice of older people: Joan Bakewell Beacon Council scheme (various) Building a Society for All Ages (2009) Ageing Well (2010) Age Action Alliance (2012) Ageing in local government: Key policy initiatives 2

5. Ageing in the city “Some councils will see an outward migration of affluent people in their 50s and 60s who choose to leave the cities…..the remaining older population…tends to be….poorer, isolated and more vulnerable with a lower life expectancy and a need for acute interventions” Audit Commission 2008 “There is emerging evidence that urban environments may place older people at a heightened risk of isolation and loneliness.” • Changes in which urban spaces are developed to meet the needs of younger consumers; • Older people’s social well-being is prone to changes in population. The loss of family members, friends and neighbours has implications for the maintenance of stable social relationships. • Older people are affected by changes linked to social issues, such as changes in services and levels of crime.” Scharf/Gierveld 2008

6. Lowest male life expectancy in England Low numbers of over-65s High levels of pensioner poverty, ill-health and disability High levels of social housing High levels of population churn and significant BME population Dynamic community sector Centre of city-region Economic, environmental and social background

7. Programme history • Launched in 2003 • Team based in Public Health Manchester • Strategy development • Research and policy • Programme Management • Engagement and partnerships • 2004/2009 strategies • 2012 Age-friendly Manchester • 2012 Consortium and Network of cities • 2013 AFM development plan

8. “An age-friendly city is a city that encourages active ageing by optimising opportunities for health, participation and security in order to enhance quality of life as people age.” World Health Organisation

9. “Manchester has established itself at an international level as a leading authority in developing one of the most comprehensive strategic programmes on ageing.” John Beard, Director, Department of Ageing and Life Course World Health Organisation

10. Citizenship-based policy approach Source: P.McGarry/MCC 2013

11. Making ageing everyone’s business

12. Key achievements:the AFM programme in numbers • 11: Years since VOP launch • 350: Local groups receiving small grants • 2,000: People attending winter warmth events • 1,500: people receive e-bulletin • 6 weeks: Older People’s Board meets • 200: members of the Older people’s Forum • £6.5m: AFM external investment since 2004 • 10-240: WHO affiliates 2010-2014 • 100: front-line staff trained • 150: Culture Champions • 1: number of age-friendly parks

13. About Age-Friendly Manchester: • Age-friendly neighbourhoods • Age-friendly services • Research and innovation • Communication and engagement • Governance, etc

14. Age-friendly neighbourhoods • Improve AFM locality structures and plans, working with regeneration teams, NHS agencies, and Council ward coordination groups • Support the VOP/AFM locality networks • Support community projects that increase social participation, including the AFM small grants fund • Promote a range of volunteering opportunities

15. Research and Innovation • Support the Manchester Ageing Study and Cheetham Living Lab • Develop Manchester as a centre of excellence, including MICRA, MMU, etc • Publish Research and Evaluation Framework • Collaborate with (inter) national research and policy projects • Economyand Ageing project with IPPR • Age-friendly design project

16. Age-friendly services • Apply ‘ageing lens’ to city plans and strategies and support Public Sector Reform • Contribute to Living Longer, Living Better • Lead Health and Well being Strategy priority 8 work on ageing • Deliver next phase of ageing studies programme • Expand the VOP Cultural Offer • Support a range of intergenerational projects

17. Involvement and Communication • Further develop the VOP Board and Older People’s Forum • Improve how older people inform decisions about their areas and services • Promote AFM protocol for involving older people • Improve AFM on-line resources and promote AFM through ‘pledge’ • Review how we communicate with older people

18. The Approach in Practice

19. Governance, reporting and resources • Support multi-agency AFM Senior Strategy group to lead and promote the programme • Report to Health and Well Being Board and Communities OSC • Publish AFM Action plan and annual progress statement • Develop AFM multi-agency workgroup and attract resources

20. UK Network of age-friendly cities • UK Urban Ageing Consortium-led • 12 cities: N. Ireland, Scotland, Wales, England. • Four aims • Voice on urban ageing • Affiliate to WHO • Enquiry visits • Networking and seminars

21. Summary: key success features • Political leadership and support is key • A team of people supporting age-friendly initiatives and partnerships • A local narrative that agencies and residents understand • Develop mainstreaming ageing issues to everyone • Promote a ‘citizen’ perspective rather than a ‘deficit’ model: Involving older people as actors in setting the age-friendly agenda • Support a partnership strategy: research – policy – practice; multiple stakeholders Buffel, McGarry et al 2014 Journal of Aging Social Policy

22. Thanks…. For more information: p.mcgarry:@manchester.gov.uk www.manchester.gov.uk/vop