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Resurgam brought together the Council’s economic resources as well as the wider Team Plymouth, including the Chamber of Commerce, Federation of Small Businesses, the HOTSW LEP, universities, partnerships and a range of national bodies;

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Resurgam focused on six key areas to help the economy to recover: Spend 4 Plymouth, Build 4 Plymouth, Skills 4 Plymouth, City Centre Renaissance Programme, Sector Action Plans, Resurgam Beacons;

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current work undertaken to support jobs in the city included:

·       the Theatre Royal was awarded £806k, this was an important lifeline for the Theatre;

·       the Redundancies Emergency Task Force brought partners together to support employers facing large scale redundancies;

·       Smart Sound Plymouth – a £1.8m grant was received to help create 100 high value jobs through the new marine communication network;

·       Future High Street Fund – a £17.5m bid was submitted to Government for the redevelopment of the Civic Centre Campus;

·       Leisure and Hospitality Economy – thanks offered to the community for responding so well to the reopening of bars and restaurants on 4 July 2020;

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Plymouth was very quick in administering the business grants from government whereby 4045 grants had been actioned totalling over £46m;

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through the Spend 4 Plymouth programme the benefits of local spending could be maximised, the council spent more than £105m on the local supply chain however wanted to achieve a 10% increase on local spend over the next two years;

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Skills 4 Plymouth would support local people at risk of losing income and would focus on retraining and upskilling;

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Plymouth had an ambitious regeneration programme for the city with private investment totalling £170m.

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staff had been working flexibly, and in some instances in new roles, to help support the local community through the Covid 19 lockdown; services were beginning to open in a safe way with 90% of services currently open;

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the library service was running a select and collect service to ensure safety;

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in line with government guidance staff continued to mainly work from home – the investment in IT over recent years had enabled that. Council buildings had been adapted to ensure the safety of staff;

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staff were thanked for the way in which they faced up to the challenges and continued to do so;

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the risk of Covid was still important, social distancing and hand washing was still required to minimise infection; the local outbreak plan was key in making sure the virus was contained.

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Reset strategy – driven by 4 main ambitions – to promote integration, bring people and services together for the communities, make sure homeless people offered appropriate accommodation, that care is delivered by sustainable services and that the shift to early intervention and prevention is maintained;

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still working in the response phase and where there were outbreaks Caring Plymouth was supporting the community through it - there was currently one care home that had an outbreak;

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working with partners to put in place low level support services;

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PPE – worked hard to ensure all care organisations had all the access to PPE they needed. Now shifting to short term emergency provision.

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recognise the work done with regards to the skills agenda – it is for young people as well as adults that we are driven with regards to the Resurgam programme. In terms of reset a key priority is supporting schools to re-open in September;

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priorities remained attainment with a key focus on supporting disadvantaged pupils and those not engaged in education;

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children social care and safeguarding responsibilities – all services continued and had been working very differently. The benefits of digital working would be developed in the future;

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95% of children in social care had been seen in their homes; real time visiting would be continued over the summer period.

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programme put together to help to support people, included the Plymouth good neighbour scheme and work with the voluntary sector;

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in excess of 70 mutual aid groups developed during this time period;

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the council helped groups with risk assessments and ways in which the groups could come together to work together and help each other – digital platforms were also created.

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key work-stream was to bring council services back online in a safe and managed way – risk assessments had been carried out to make sure services operating;

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90% of services back online;

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work regarding making sure accommodation was adapted to ensure work can continue in a safe way when members of staff return was ongoing;

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improvements to digital services allowed the council to continue to work: webcasts enabled democracy to continue and allowed officers to work in a flexible way.