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Partnership as a mechanism for delivering local alcohol policy

Partnership as a mechanism for delivering local alcohol policy. Rachel Herring, Middlesex University AERC Alcohol Academy Launch Event 9 th June 2009. Brief background.

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Partnership as a mechanism for delivering local alcohol policy

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  1. Partnership as a mechanism for delivering local alcohol policy Rachel Herring, Middlesex University AERC Alcohol Academy Launch Event 9th June 2009

  2. Brief background • Devolution of the responsibility to local authorities for action to address alcohol-related harm and help achieve national targets. • Use of partnerships as a mechanism for developing and implementing local alcohol policies e.g. CDRPs, DA(A)Ts, PCTs, LSPs (and LAAs). • GORs have a supporting role. • Alcohol as a cross cutting issue – health, criminal justice, community safety, commerce.

  3. What is partnership? “An agreement between two or more independent bodies to work collectively to achieve an objective” (Audit Commission , 1998, 2005) Vary in size, service area, membership and function: • Statutory e.g. CDRP and voluntary e.g. LSP • Strategic/operational • Micro-partnerships • Informal (‘organic) rather than formal (invented)?

  4. Why work in partnership?

  5. Multi-component approach • Strategic framework with a theoretical basis for action • The identification of problems defined at local levels • Programme of co-ordinated projects based on a integrative programme design where singular interventions run in combination with each other and/or are sequenced together over time • Identification, mobilisation and coordination of agencies, stakeholders and local communities • Defined aims, objectives, indicators & measures of effectiveness for the programme as a whole (individual projects will also have specified aims, objectives and outcome measures). • Evaluation as an integral part of the programme Source: Thom and Bayley (2007)

  6. Key issues • Policy tensions • Transference • Alcohol-focused or embedded approaches • Community mobilisation • Institutionalising change (sustainability)

  7. Evaluation of the LSPs: governance issues Considerable differences in the extent to which LSPs had been able to establish robust and sustainable governance arrangements • previous history of partnership working • different kinds of local authority areas • leadership, membership, need for a clear understanding of the role and purpose of the partnership • engagement of partners and stakeholders

  8. Evaluation of LSPs: delivery issues • Prime drivers of activity were national policies • Wide range of activity • Clear relationship between the ‘maturity’ of the LSP and the amount of progress made • Mainstreaming: ‘strategic’ and ‘initiative’: • LA, police and health organisations are key players • Area based initiatives e.g. NRF provide a stimulus & learning tool • Importance of councillors, senior officers & middle management • ‘Locality’ planning good place for main programme reshaping

  9. The Virtuous Circle (Geddes, 2006)

  10. The Vicious Circle (Geddes, 2006)

  11. Key factors • Individuals • Champions • Achieving ‘buy-in’ at all levels • Cultures • Time pressures • Complexity of policy context • Sustainability

  12. Addressing alcohol-related harm: lessons from other fields • Long term commitment • Ownership of the problem • Framing the problem • Understanding the target • Planning • Positive messages • Multiple approaches • Competition • Research

  13. Reading • Audit Commission (2005) Governing partnerships. Bridging the accountability gap. London: Audit Commission. • Audit Commission (2009) Working Better together? Managing local strategic partnerships. London: Audit Commission. • Geddes, M. (2006) National Evaluation of Local Strategic Partnerships. Theory of Change Paper Issues Paper. London: Department for Communities and Local Government. • Stead, M. et al (2009) Changing attitudes, knowledge and behaviour. A review of successful initiatives. York: JRF. • Thom, B. and Bayley, M. (2007) Multi-component programmes: An approach to prevent and reduce alcohol-related harm. York: JRF • Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, Department for Transport (2006) National Evaluation of Local Strategic Partnerships: Formative Evaluation and Action Research 2002-2005. Executive Summary to Final Report Programme. Wetherby : ODPM Publications.

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