Transcript Document
Session 2 -
What does Partnership
Working Mean?
Ground Rules
• Listen to others and value the diversity of
opinions in the group
• Be constructive
• Value the differences; there are no rights or
wrongs, no good or bad
• Be open and honest, keep to the agreed
time, especially start and finish
• Mobile phones!
- (extracted from, Working with Groups. General
Improvement Skills. Modernisation Agency)
Recap on Previous
Session
Objectives of Session
• To understand what partnership is
• To understand the importance of
partnership working
• To understand the theory of partnership
• To identify barriers and opportunities of
partnership working
Living and working
conditions
Unemployment
Work
environment
Water & sanitation
Education
Health care
services
Agriculture and
food production
Housing
Age, sex and
constitutional
factors
WHY DEVELOP PARTNERSHIP WORKING
“Joined up problems require joined up solutions”
2.
(New Labour statement)
Health Policy Drivers – For
Partnership Working
• Health of the Nation (1992)
• The NHS Modern and Dependable (1997) –
“The demolition of the Berlin Wall”
• Jakarta Declaration (WHO 1997)
• Tackling Health Inequalities ; A Program For
Action (2003)
• Wanless (2001)
• Choosing Health (2004)
• Our Health, Our Care, Our Say (2006)
“A lot of people who work in partnership
continue to act as individual organisations and
deliver pieces of work separately but they have
meetings and call it partnership working…What
we’re moving to...is more of what we call a
virtual way of working, where you don’t see the
organisational boundaries at all.”
(Trevor Hopkins, Gateshead PCT)
Group Work
• Why do we work in partnership?
• What makes partnership work?
What makes partnership work- in
summary
• Values
• Delivery mechanisms
COFFEE
Types of Partnership working
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Partnerships
Multi-agency
Inter-sectoral
Inter- or multidisciplinary working
Teams
Group work
Potential Barriers to Partnership
• Think of some ideas on how to
overcome these barriers
8. Child-initiated shared
decisions with adults
7. Child-initiated and directed
The Ladder of Participation
6. Adult-initiated shared
decisions with children
Degrees of participation
eg with children
5. Consulted and informed
4. Assigned but informed
3. Tokenism
2. Decoration
1. Manipulation
Non-participation
Group Exercise
Decide on a piece of work someone in the
group has been involved in.
• What rung is it on?
• Why did you decide it belonged there?
• What are the barriers to moving it up the
ladder?
Group Exercise
• Think of a partnership you want to develop
• Think about what partners you will need
• Think about the values and delivery mechanisms
you will need to develop in order to develop an
effective partnership
• Begin to develop an action plan - looking at the
steps you would need to take to develop a
partnership eg. engagement, planning the first
meeting and the first outcomes you would wish to
happen