The Annual Progress through Partnership Conference

PtP Conference – 4^th December 2009

The Brit Oval, London, SE11 5SS

Local leaders are facing significant challenges in future years to deliver improved services and better outcomes for their communities within tighter budgets. They will need to do more with less, and also make difficult decisions about simply doing less.

This context makes it all the more important that local partners work together to look at how their combined resources can best be used to secure high quality and relevant services for local people.

Working collaboratively through partnership is increasingly important as a way to influence and coordinate the way local services are delivered. Bringing partners together to set priorities and share resources offers opportunities to deliver better services for less.

More and more elected members are using partnerships to develop a vision for an area and embed this vision in the strategies and action plans of partner organisations so that there are common priorities and resources can be better aligned.

This conference will bring people together to share experiences of developing partnerships that can deliver results, focusing on the likely future of partnership working. The event will take place at the Oval in London on 4^th December to consider:

• The future shape and impact of partnerships in leading localism and community leadership
• How  elected members are increasingly able to use partnerships to engage partners and improve service delivery  
• What the research can tell us about building effective partnerships
• Learning from Total Place pilots
• Scrutiny’s relationship to partnerships
• Performance management for partnerships

Who should attend:

• Elected members whose portfolio is delivered through partnership arrangements
• LSP practitioners and partnership managers and coordinators
• Partners from LSP Boards and thematic partnerships

To register your interest contact Janine Gill or complete an online registration form.

09:30 Registration and Refreshments

10:00 Welcome and introduction Cllr Rory Love, Shepway District Council and Chairman of SEE

10:10 Partnership working – the future landscape

• Localism: fact or fiction? Roger Gough, Localis
• So what does this mean for the future of partnership working? Tony Bovaird INLOGOV
• Question and Answer session, Mark Palmer, Development Director, SEE

11:10 Coffee Break and move on to workshop sessions

11:20 Workshop Session 1

Improved outcomes and efficiencies through collaborative working: lessons from the Total Place pilots

These workshops will explore some of the common themes emerging from the Total Place pilots, including:

• How organisations need to organise themselves to support multi-agency support/  interventions
• How to realise in hard cash the benefits of prevention
• Case management of particular families and individuals

Delegates can choose to hear from one of three pilot areas, each focusing on a specific theme:

• Total Place in Kent - Single Asset, Martin Ayre, Kent CC
• Total Place in Gateshead, South Tyneside and Sunderland - Alcohol and Drugs misuse, Paul Robinson, South Tyneside MBC
• Total Place in Worcestershire – cross organisational review (NEETs), Roger Britton and Nicola North, Worcestershire CC
• Suffolk 'parallel' place - The Lives we Lead, The Leaders we Need (collaborative leadership and community clusters) Lynne Haig, TaylorHaig and Richard Hewitt, Suffolk CC

12:30 Lunch and networking

13:15 Workshop Session 2

Experiences in Local Areas

• Scrutiny and Accountability of Partnerships, Jo Dungey, LGA
• The challenges of partnership working to develop an MAA, Keith Murdock, Assistant Director of Milton Keynes South Midlands Growth Area
• Addressing the wider issue for LSPs to deliver outcomes, Janice Wason, East Kent Partnership,
• Performance Management of Partnerships, Sian Campbell, PtP Programme Manager and Rob Ormerod, Hampshire CC

14:25 Support for local partnerships

• Engaging Partnerships through Practitioner Associates, Cllr Melvyn Howell and David East, PtP Practitioner Associates
• How Progress through Partnership (PtP) can support partnership working in your area? Katy Donnelly/Mark Palmer, PtP

14:45 Role of Partnerships in leading localism and devolved decision making, Davy Jones, Policy and Partnerships Specialist

15:15 Moving Forward and Close, Cllr Rory Love, Shepway District Council and Chairman od SEE

15.30 Close

For detailed instructions of how to get to the Oval Please click here  289Kb Please note due to construction work at the conference entrance please follow signs to the Vauxhall Gate

The presentations from the day are available for download (See the programme below)

Presentations from the introduction

Partnership Working, The Future Landscape - Roger Gough, Localis partnership_working_roger_gough.pdf  209Kb

So What does this all mean for the future of partnership working? Tony Bovaird, INLOGOV future_of_partnerships_tony_bovaird.pdf  259Kb

Presentations from workshop session 1

Kent Total Place Pilot - Martyn Ayre, Kent County Council ma_presentation_by_martyn_ayre.pdf  2Mb
Total Place in Gateshead, South Tyneside and Sunderland - Paul Robinson, South Tyneside MBC paul_robinson.pdf  12Mb
Worcestershire, Total Place - Roger Britton and Nicola North, Worcestershire County Council cross_organisational_review.pdf  247Kb

Presentations from workshop session 2

The challenges of partnership working to develop an MAA, Keith Murdock, Milton Keynes South Midlands Growth Area the_challenges_of_partnership_working.pdf  395Kb
Addressing the wider issues for LSP's to deliver outcomes, Janice Wason, East Kent Partnership addressing_the_wider_issue_for_lsps_to_deliver_outcomes.pdf  4Mb

Support for Local partnerships

Engaging partnerships through Practitioner Associates, Cllr Melvyn Howell melvyn_howell_pa.pdf  18Kb
David East david_east_pa.pdf  8Kb
How PtP can support partnerhip working in your area? Katy Donnelly, PtP/Si how_can_ptp_support_partnerships__katy_donnelly.pdf  2Mb

Plenary

Role of partnerships in leading localism and devolved decision making, Davy Jones ptp_conference_davy_jones.pdf  832Kb

Closing remarks and moving forward by Cllr Rory Love, Shepway District Council and Chairman of SEE

To down load a copy of the report from the day please click ptp_conference_report-3.pdf  275Kb