Partnership Working

Sheila Bates

Coventry Children’s Champion

Content

•Coventry Children and Young People’s Strategic Partnership

•Children’s Champion Role

•Partnership Working in Coventry

•Coventry User Involvement Strategy

•Identifications of the challenges

•Critical success factors

Programme Board

Being healthy

Staying Safe

Enjoying &achieving

Making a positive

contribution

Achieving economic well-being

Having supportive

friends, families &

communities

Integrated processes

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John Forde

Amanda Lamb

Ruth Snow

Fran Downes

Peter Shearing

SuzannePrince

Andy Walmsley

Lead

Marc Harder (interim)

Marc Harder (interim)

Vicki Starritt

James Lawrence

Sally Giles

Gennie Holmes

Nicola Atkins

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Commissioning BoardProfessional

Advisory Group

Consultative Forum

Wider partnership activity and sub groups

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Children’s Champion•Independent role which ensures children and young people have a strategic voice in decision making

•Monitor the quality and impact of the involvement strategy

•Encourage/support partnership working ensuring that children and young people are valued as key stakeholders

•Be a critical friend to all partners

•Ensure that children and young people play an active role in the development, monitoring and evaluation of services they use.

Organisations working with the Coventry Partnership

The Coventry Partnership “Family”

Community Safety Partnership

Neighbourhood Management Partners

Housing Strategy Group

Jobs Strategy Group

Health of Coventry Group

Transport Group

Learning & Training Group

Equalities & Communities Group

Advantage West Midlands

Government Office West Midlands

Coventry Solihull & Warwickshire Partnership

Coventry & Nuneaton Regeneration Zone

CV1 (City Centre Company)

Swanswell Partnership

New Deal for Communities

Business Community Higher/Further Education /Public Sector

Council/Democratic Voluntary Sector

Children’s & Young People’s Strategic Partnership

Older People’s Partnership

Mental Health Services Partnership

Learning Disabilities Partnership

Physical & Sensory Impairment Partnership

PIE*

Group

Operations

Group

Theme Group Leaders

Cultural Partnership

Environment Group

Sectors involved in the Coventry partnership

Involvement Strategy•Networks-Consultative Forum

•Involvement Champions

•Action Plans

•Monitoring Group

•Consultation/activity log

•Standards

•Financial Policy

•Children’s Plan

•HBW quality mark

Identification of the Challenges

•Improving the quality of involvement across the board

•Working with both service users and professionals from the point they are at

•Having enough time to consult effectively

•Getting past the gate keepers

•Accountability

•Enough appropriate resources

•Strategic material being user friendly

•Representative involvement

Critical Success Factors

•Standards

•Appropriate training for both users and professionals

•Appropriate mechanisms of involvement that can be monitored

•Reward and recognition policy recognised across partners

•Opportunity for involvement from the top down

•Less what more how

Contact details

Sheila Bates:

Coventry Children’s Champion

Sheila.bates@coventry.gov.uk

Telephone: 024 7683 1432