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Joining-up Locally: Partnerships for Better Practice & Performance 16 April 2007 – Workshop

This workshop on public service delivery explores the importance of partnerships in achieving better practice and performance. It highlights the need for local area agreements to consider both smoke detectors and sprinklers in high-risk homes. Examples of successful compacts are shared, including Enfield Police engaging faith groups and Congleton Compact leading to new sport partnerships.

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Joining-up Locally: Partnerships for Better Practice & Performance 16 April 2007 – Workshop

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  1. Local CompactsIn Action paul barasi Compact Voice Officer Joining-up Locally: Partnerships for Better Practice & Performance 16 April 2007 – Workshop

  2. Public service delivery Voluntary and community activity Local Area Agreement needs to take account of both

  3. Smoke detectors and sprinklers in homes of people most at risk – deal made via Walsall Compact

  4. Enfield Police used their Compact to engage faith groups Merton’s community policing standards apply their Compact principles and values at street level.

  5. Congleton Compact led to newsport partnershipsand their PCT and MS Society sharing a hydrotherapy pool

  6. When you know how: the possibilities are endless Turning a campaign to keep the Lido into a partnership to jointly manage it

  7. Implementing government policy Localism – Community priorities, voice, involvement Double accountability for delivering your vision

  8. The LSP's Compact role Making your future together Promoting it as a partnership governance tool Getting it used to support LAA and key processes Being exemplar of a Compact way of working Considering input from Local Compact Group Ensuring the Compact is resourced

  9. What is Compact-proofing? Citing your Compact meaningfully Being consistent with what it says Sector involvement / consultation Assessing impact on the sector In documents and decisions In processes and training

  10. Sector independence Does your Compact make it a reality? Do local groups feel representing users & being heard is a struggle? Are they still afraid campaigning or challenging risks their funding? Tackling blocks to transforming services:over-prescriptive funding? Imposed contract terms?

  11. Compact way Values into action of working Working together from the start Mutual Respect and Understanding Trust and Confidence Objectivity, Transparency, Openness Accountability, Honesty and Integrity Leadership and Common Purpose Treating partners equally Listening and good Communication Conflict resolution

  12. Boosting involvement Involving the whole sector Working together throughout the service continuum The key to transforming services Did you know our Compact can get small groups more involved in community strategy, overview and scrutiny, best value and the local area agreement? I don’t know what these are, how to get involved or what support I’d get Need Planning Design Delivery Review Improvement

  13. Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill Which areas will succeed? Disengaged NHS Users of their Local Compact for effective partnership governance and for wins Investors in capacity & partnership Unchanged culture Control rather than support and enable Will to transform services as a starting point Not into transforming lives and communities Holistic vision and practice Unresourced Compact and LAA statement of community involvement See only half the picture

  14. Giving your Compact Group LAA tasks • Improve commissioning processes to facilitate more community involvement • Boost the sector’s public service delivery capacity

  15. Using your Compact as the LAA's golden thread Compact-proofing governance and service delivery Boosting Sector capacity for involvement across all blocks Full cost recovery for pump priming grants LAA liaison officer employed

  16. Using your Compact as LAA driver for partnership building • Maximising impact of collective activity • policy development & implementation • delivery of services to communities • regeneration of local communities

  17. Using Your Compact for full participation LAA Partnership & Participation Project with 500+ voluntary organisations in strategy groups • Environmental block added • Equality-proofing and identifying cross-cutting issues • wide community engagement • ChangeUpfundsalignedtodevelopingsectorasdeliverypartner • Mapping sector impact

  18. What will make it work for us? CompactChampions Installing ... Compact documentation ... procedures ... processes Your Compact won't work without people

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