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Joining-up Locally: Partnerships for Better Practice & Performance 16 April 2007 – Workshop Local Compacts In Action paul barasi Compact Voice Officer Public service delivery Local Area Agreement needs to take account of both Voluntary and community activity Smoke detectors and sprinklers in homes of people most at risk – deal made via Walsall Compact Enfield Police used their Compact to engage faith groups Merton’s community policing standards apply their Compact principles and values at street level. Congleton Compact led to new sport partnerships and their PCT and MS Society sharing a hydrotherapy pool Turning a campaign to keep the Lido into a partnership to jointly manage it Implementing government policy Double accountability for delivering your vision Localism – Community priorities, voice, involvement 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 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 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? 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 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 Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill Disengaged NHS Users of their Local Compact for effective partnership governance and for wins Unchanged culture Investors in capacity & partnership Control rather than Will to transform services support and enable 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 Improve commissioning processes to facilitate more community involvement Boost the sector’s public service delivery capacity 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 Maximising impact of collective activity policy development & implementation delivery of services to communities regeneration of local communities LAA Partnership & Participation Project with 500+ voluntary organisations in strategy groups Environmental block added Equality-proofing and identifying cross-cutting issues wide community engagement ChangeUp funds aligned to developing sector as delivery partner Mapping sector impact Compact Champions