1. Collaboration and Partnership
Ian Beever, Stuart Tattersall, Ed Humphreys

2. The Workshop
Aim
To explore models of collaboration and their legal implications supported by practical tips and good practice examples
Objectives
Understand the increasing importance of collaboration
Identify different models of collaboration and their legal implications
Explore examples of good practice and their critical success factors
Generate ideas of what could support more robust and successful partnerships in the borough

3. Drivers Access to funding
Development of new means of delivering benefit to beneficiaries, new services, sources of revenue
Service delivery/operational efficiency
Increase purchasing power
Development of staff, expertise, satisfaction, retention

4. Before you begin Fundamental compatibility of goals/objects
Trustees’ duty to advance objects – not charity itself, nor staff
Legal powers available
Duty of care
Conflicts of interest

5. Before you begin Involvement of stakeholders Risks
operational
financial
reputational
Consider the human factor!
Legal partnership

6. Choices – Models of Collaboration
Informal collaboration
Memoranda of understanding
Agreements and sub-contracts
Joint ventures
Even merger (may be more effective)!

7. Legal issues – The Joint Venture
Types of collaboration
limited liability partnership
limited company
community interest company
Profit or profit sharing?
Consortium

8. Legal issues – When Things Go Wrong
Dispute resolution
Termination – how do we get out, how might they?
Who owns what and who is liable for what?
Remedies and enforceability

9. Legal issues – Other Considerations
Confidentiality (from the start…)
Intellectual property and data protection
Shared services, shared property
Competition law

10. Examples of Collaboration
London Carers Centre Consortium
Hackney VCS Consortium
Lambeth LEAP (Early Years Partnership)
East London Training and Employment