Strategic Partnership Working

in Gloucestershire

Jane Burns

Assistant Chief Executive

15 January 2010

What I intend to cover…

• Some of the reasons we work in partnership

• Our partnership structures

• Key partnership plans

•• What are our partnerships achieving

• How members can contribute

What do you want to know about

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The Context

• Strong and Prosperous Communities White Paper 2006

• Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA)(CAA)

• Communities in Control – Real People, Real Power White Paper - 2008

Governance - then

• large and unwieldy GSP

• only did what others didn’t/wouldn’t

•

• No place for joint vision

• No authority for decision-making

• dominance of some themes and some local LSPs

• No rules of engagement/”norms”

No give and take or benefit of the doubt

Governance - now

• clear vision

• clear roles and responsibilities

• joined-up

• better engagement

• no hierarchy

• “partnership of

partnerships”

• reps from

thematic, district

LSPs and sectoral

partnershipspartnerships

• forward looking

• long term

• place for collective

decision making

• organisations

• elected and non-

elected leaderselected leaders

• all 7 councils

• independent Chair

• make things

happen

• organisations and

partnerships

• chief executives /

chief officerschief officers

• All 7 councils

Thematic Partnerships

Co-ordinating strategy and delivery of key themes across the County

County and District level

• Gloucestershire Children and Young People’s Strategic Partnership

• Gloucestershire Health and Community Wellbeing • Gloucestershire Health and Community Wellbeing Partnership

• Gloucestershire Safer and Stronger Communities Partnership

• Gloucestershire First (economic)

• Gloucestershire Environment Partnership

What has gone well?

• LAA process, sign-off and progress

• GOSW “acclaim”

• strategic - LAA performance management

- Area Based Grant - Shifted Resources

- SIDP and Joint Core Strategy

- JSNA/MAIDEN

• Local - single domestic violence project• Local - single domestic violence project

- community safety projects

- skills targets

• less - happy VCS

“noise” - pump priming and PRG

- attendance!

Ongoing Challenges

• “organised” chaos

• some don’t want their “roles” and “responsibilities”

• good communications

• building and maintaining relationships• building and maintaining relationships

• collective versus organisational accountability

• economic downturn

Our learning

• 80 : 20 pragmatism not perfection

• always “work in progress”

• needs to dovetail with organisations’ business planning planning

• people make it work

• give people benefit of the doubt

How are members involved?

• Accountable Bodies Group

• Gloucestershire Strategic Partnership

• Thematic Partnerships

• Local links through LSPs

• New scrutiny committees’ external focus

Which members are involved?

• Gloucestershire Strategic Partnership:

– Chaired by Cllr Jackie Hall

– Chairs of other thematic partnerships & LSPs

• Accountable Bodies Group:

– Cllr Jackie Hall

– District Leaders/Cabinet Members

– Cllr Rob Garnham as Chair of Police Authority

• Thematic Partnerships:• Thematic Partnerships:

– Lead Cabinet Members

• District LSPs

– District Leaders/Cabinet Members

– GCC Member representatives

• All scrutiny members via new GCC Scrutiny Committees

Questions?Questions?