1. Partnerships for Better Practice & Performance
Joining-up Locally:
Partnerships for Better Practice & Performance
16 April 2007 – Workshop
Local Compacts In Action
paul barasi Compact Voice Officer

2. Local Area Agreement needs to take account of both
Public service delivery
Voluntary and community activity
Local Area Agreement needs to take account of both

3. Smoke detectors and sprinklers in homes of people most at risk – deal made via Walsall Compact

4. Enfield Police used their Compact to engage faith groups
Merton’s community policing standards apply their Compact principles and values at street level.

5. Congleton Compact led to new sport partnerships and
their PCT and MS Society sharing a hydrotherapy pool

6. When you know how: the possibilities are endless
Turning a campaign to keep the Lido into a partnership to jointly manage it

7. Double accountability for delivering your vision
Localism – Community priorities, voice, involvement
Implementing government policy
Double accountability for delivering your vision

8. Making your future together
The LSP's Compact role
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
Making your future together

9. What is Compact-proofing?
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

10. Does your Compact make it a reality?
Sector independence
Does your Compact make it a reality?
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?

11. Values into action Compact way of working
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

12. Involving the whole sector
Boosting involvement
Did you know our Compact can get small groups more involved in community strategy, overview and scrutiny, best value and the local area agreement?
Involving the whole sector
Working together throughout the service continuum
The key to transforming services
I don’t know what these are, how to get involved or what support I’d get
Need
Planning
Design
Delivery
Review
Improvement

13. Which areas will succeed?
Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill
Which areas will succeed?
Disengaged NHS
Users of their Local Compact for effective partnership governance and for wins
Unchanged culture
Investors in capacity & partnership
Control rather than support and enable
Will to transform services 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

14. Giving your Compact Group LAA tasks
Improve commissioning processes to facilitate more community involvement
Boost the sector’s public service delivery capacity

15. Using your Compact as the LAA's golden thread
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

16. Using your Compact as LAA driver for partnership building
Maximising impact of collective activity
policy development & implementation
delivery of services to communities
regeneration of local communities

17. Using Your Compact for full participation
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

18. What will make it work for us?
Compact Champions
Installing ...
Compact documentation ...
procedures ...
processes
Your Compact won't work without people