OSMC Presentation Strategic Partnership Landscape In Gloucestershire Jane Burns 28 May 2015
Partnership working – a brief history • Pre 2000 – functional/issue/geographical or to access funding • LGA 2000 – statutory duty to prepare a Community Strategy with partners which led to the creation of LSPs. • LSPs given the job of developing Local Area Agreements and had Area Based Grant to spend • Statutory and non-statutory partnerships covering ‘themes’
Partnership working – a brief history (continued) • Coalition Government (2010-2015) o repealed statutory duty, LAAs and ABGs o created Health and Wellbeing Boards, LEPs and Police and Crime Commissioners o new duties to co-operate around infrastructure and planning o Co- operation and joint working on ‘Growth Fund’ o more local discretion on partnerships
Strategic Partnership in Gloucestershire Cheltenham Stroud Partnership Leadership LSP Gloucestershire Local Enterprise Partnership Health & Wellbeing Board Supporting People Gloucester Partnership Cotswold Partnership LSP Disbanded Disbanded Forest of Dean Partnership Community Safety Partnership Tewkesbury LSP Children & Young People Strategic Partnership
• Created in 2011 • Main Public sector bodies Provides ‘vision, leadership and strategic direction in those areas where it is vital for organisations to work together to meet the needs of the people and communities of Gloucestershire in the most cost effective way’
Leadership Gloucestershire Membership Leader and Chief Executive, Chief Constable, Gloucestershire Cheltenham Borough Council Constabulary Leader and Chief Executive, Chair, Gloucestershire Clinical Cotswold District Council Commissioning Group Leader and Lead Director, Accountable Officer, Forest of Dean District Council Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group Leader and Lead Director, Gloucester City Council Leader and Chief Executive, Stroud District Council Leader and Chief Executive, Gloucestershire County Council Leader and Chief Executive, Tewkesbury Borough Council Police and Crime Commissioner for Gloucestershire
Priorities • Oversee progress on key issues • Horizon – scan for new issues and opportunities which impact on Gloucestershire • Provide a collective view/voice on issues which affect Gloucestershire • Debate topical issues of relevance to Gloucestershire
Joint Working Agreed Principles of joint working (2012) • The view of shared services is not consistent within organisations or between organisations – only a compelling case driven by market forces will overcome this. • Delivering shared services requires considerable energy and organisational capacity therefore smaller organisations will operate to their own timescale and priorities . • Consistency of approach across a wider area e.g. a county solution can be a challenging aim and in most cases too challenging and possibly unnecessary. Shared service partnerships made up of willing partners are easier to deliver and are the stronger for it.
Joint Working (continued) Agreed Principles of joint working (2012) (continued) • Organisations engage in shared services when it suits their own business plans . • Attempts to push a shared services agenda without recognising these principles will ‘scare the horses’ and fail . • Successful shared services can be built upon and these may offer solutions to other partners over time. • Where possible shared services should look to accept new partners . • When considering options for service commissioning, organisations should maintain awareness of existing shared service partnerships. These should be given consideration as options where appropriate .
Recent examples of shared services Shared space/accommodation Front line services Financial savings Shared staffing Non financial benefits, service Shared infrastructure (i.e. ICT/systems) improvements, resilience Back office services Tewkesbury Locality Offices Gloucester City MD/GCC Commissioning Director GOSS/20:20 Vision UBICO Joint Waste Committee Cotswold/West Oxfordshire DCs One Legal Shared Internal Audit
Conservatives Manifesto : Partnership working headlines • deliver more tailored Growth Deals • devolve further powers over economic development, transport and skills to larger cities with elected mayors • back LEPs to promote jobs and growth • continue to integrate health and social care • encourage voluntary integration of services and administration
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