One Hull - One City, One set of Outcomes
Strengthening Partnership Working in Hull
Agencies in Hull have a good track record of working together to improve the lives of people and communities. The strength of our partnerships is demonstrated by our shared vision and pride in the city, and our commitment to ensuring we develop and adapt to meet new challenges and opportunities.
In 2011 the need for a greater focus on the local economy together with new, statutory responsibilities around Health and Wellbeing and the introduction of Community Budget pilots, means our partnerships are evolving.
Building on existing partnerships, the changes will strengthen and streamline our delivery structures, ensuring we are able to harness the knowledge, skills and resources of all public, private and voluntary sector partners to deliver real and lasting improvements in the lives of the people of Hull.
With a renewed emphasis on delivery, we will put the City’s Partnership Strategy into action. Specifically, we will:
- pilot a new way for partners to support families with a range of complex needs through Community-based Budgeting;
- make efficient and effective use of the public sector’s land, buildings and other facilities across the city, embrace the principles of locally based services and engaging local residents in shaping and delivering those services.
A City Leadership Board has been established to drive forward the delivery of our Partnership Strategy, succeeding the One Hull Executive Group. This Leadership Board is supported by delivery boards for each of the key strategic partnerships:
- the Health and Wellbeing Board brings together locally elected councillors with key commissioners in health and care services to improve health outcomes. They will play a key role in developing and implementing an Aging Well strategy;
- the Community Safety Partnership continues its work to deliver a co-ordinated approach to tackling crime and disorder in the city;
- the Children’s Trust Programme Board includes all of the agencies involved in delivering services for children and young people to ensure effective joint working to deliver the 2010 Children’s Plan;
- the City Economy Group is responsible for delivering a co-ordinated public and private sector approach to developing the local economy, and in the future will integrate with the North Bank group of the new Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP);
- the Community Budgets Programme Board will oversee eight pilot projects to support families with complex needs and co-ordinate the work of the Total Capital and Asset Pathfinder;
- the newly established Green City Group will bring together all of the strands of work on environment and climate change and drive the development of the city as a leader in Green initiatives.
Work has also started on developing a clear and straight-forward approach to engaging and communicating with all sectors across the partnership, including the voluntary sector, the use of consistent customer intelligence in decision making, the activities of Area Partnerships and focused Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities.
In addition the partnership will also develop a consistent approach to commissioning new services. One of the Community Budgets pilot projects is now working to produce a draft commissioning and procurement framework, to be developed by October 2011 and tested with all sectors through the Business, VCS and other forums.
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