1. The Tavistock Institute/FLUID Visit, September 2003 Programme –Welcome –Our Work in Partnership: What Works, What Doesn’t: Lessons from our Experience –Partnership in Practice: the ‘Hertfordshire’/CBMDI project –Our Work in Education and Training –Our Work in Work and Employment

2. The Tavistock Institute/FLUID Visit, September 2003 Partnership: What Works, What Doesn’t: Lessons from our Experience –The UK Policy Context: Public and Private: Transport Public and Public: Social Care, Welfare to Work Public and Voluntary: Health All Together Now: Education

3. The Tavistock Institute/FLUID Visit, September 2003 Partnership: What Works, What Doesn’t: Lessons from our Experience –Evaluating and Advising: –Health and Social Care: Healthy Living Centres, Hertfordshire –Regeneration: Small Towns & Villages Enterprise Initiative, CRTI –Welfare and Employment: ONE Pilot Schemes –Education & Training: Compete, Competent –Work and Employment: National Lotteries, Work-Life Balance –Running: –EC-Wide projects: HERO, Competent –UK-sub contracted projects: Healthy Living Centres

4. The Tavistock Institute/FLUID Visit, September 2003 Partnership: What Works, What Doesn’t: Lessons from our Experience –Context: –Have a partnership for a reason –It’s not just about money: have a task around which the partnership can build –Structure the partnership to get ‘buy-in’ - avoid the core/peripheral member model –Don’t force the pace –Small (and local) is often beautiful

5. The Tavistock Institute/FLUID Visit, September 2003 Partnership: What Works, What Doesn’t: Lessons from our Experience –People: –Paying attention to people at the centre of a partnership is crucial –Choose your Chair –Avoid domination by a single body with their own agenda –Be clear where the authority lies (and make sure everyone else is) –Committed people can overcome traditional enmities

6. The Tavistock Institute/FLUID Visit, September 2003 Partnership: What Works, What Doesn’t: Lessons from our Experience –Systems: –The devil really is in the detail –Think about how well support systems - paper, IT - will integrate across the partnership –Think about different organisational languages –Train people in partnership - workshops, focus groups - and in leading/chairing

7. The Tavistock Institute/FLUID Visit, September 2003 Partnership: What Works, What Doesn’t: Lessons from our Experience –But don’t despair if it doesn’t work at first: –It is possible to bring partnerships back from the dead –The results can transform people’s lives