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Scrutinising Partnerships

Scrutinising Partnerships. Content. Legal framework that underpins partnership scrutiny Key challenges for council scrutiny of LSPs Roles that partner organisations may play in scrutiny Effective outcomes from the scrutiny of partnerships Examples of scrutiny of partnerships

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Scrutinising Partnerships

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  1. Scrutinising Partnerships

  2. Content • Legal framework that underpins partnership scrutiny • Key challenges for council scrutiny of LSPs • Roles that partner organisations may play in scrutiny • Effective outcomes from the scrutiny of partnerships • Examples of scrutiny of partnerships • Future of partnership scrutiny

  3. Legal basis for partnership scrutiny • Local Government Act 2000: can look at any matter which affects the are or its inhabitants • Health and Social Care Act 2001: gives power to scrutinise NHS services • Police and Justice Act 2006: gives power (commence in April 2008) to scrutinise Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships (District/Borough Councils) – Community Call for Action • Strong and Prosperous Communities White Paper and Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill to give powers to scrutinise agencies involved in LAA targets and a duty on these organisations to respond to scrutiny recommendations • Future: Comprehensive Area Assessment (CCA)

  4. Key challenges for scrutiny partnerships • Partnership work can be enhanced by scrutiny but communication and liaison is vital to ensure this happens • Enhance the democratic leadership of partnerships • Wider member engagement/knowledge in the work of partnerships • Holding the leadership of partnerships to account • Help to build not undermine effective partnership work • Bring partner organisations together • Bring the knowledge of local issues which local ward councillors have to the partnership • Add value through scrutiny role • Scrutiny provides positive recommendations

  5. Key challenges for scrutiny of partnerships • Improve the performance of partnerships • Locally defined performance management • Reviewing performance towards LAA targets • Widen community and user engagement with partnerships and services beyond the council • Scrutiny to facilitate pubic perception/views on the performance of a partnership • Scrutiny needs to be aware of cultural differences between organisations within the partnership (LSP)

  6. Roles partner organisations may play in scrutiny • Members of an LSP from outside the council may become involved in scrutiny by: • Being a subject of a local scrutiny review ‘one off’ question and answer session or a substantial review • Being a witness – providing evidence to a review on an informal basis or as part of a select committee approach • Being an expert advisor to a scrutiny review • Being a co-optee to a review on a temporary or permanent basis

  7. Partnership and scrutiny • Vital that the work of scrutiny adds value and improvement to partnerships (if it doesn’t don’t do it). • The role of scrutiny is to look at : • Better outcomes: improve the work of the partnership, find new ways to tackle problems, improve strategies through wider engagement and to ensure the LSP is meeting its goals and targets • Better processes: improve how the LSP works, enhance LSP openness, improve councillor engagement with LSP, ensure all stakeholders represented – e.g. partnership structures are open and fit for purpose and relate to local democratic structures

  8. Examples of scrutiny of partnerships • Holding to account the partnership - Nottingham City Council scrutinised the LSP and how the council could better support the LSP and analysed success of the LSP in engaging with external stakeholders. - Birmingham City Council scrutiny reviewed the membership and relationship of the LSP to the democratic decision making process of the council

  9. Examples of scrutiny of partnershipscontd. • Performance management - In Cornwall, a scrutiny panel with representation from county and districts set up to review the implementation and outputs of the LAA.

  10. Examples of scrutiny of partnerships contd. • Policy review/policy development - In Rugby BC and Warwickshire CC a scrutiny review of drug, alcohol and substance abuse led to recommendations for action by the LSP and partners

  11. Scrutinising partnershipsFacilitated group discussion • What approaches to the scrutiny of partnerships have you taken in your councils? • What have been the barriers? • What improvements can you suggest?

  12. The future of partnership scrutiny • “Scrutiny of strategic partnerships presents a chance to develop the role and raise the profile of scrutiny” LGIU – Effective Scrutiny of LSPs 2007 • Increasing importance of LSPs –scrutiny needs to respond to the higher profile of partnership work – CCA – Area based assessment • Neighbourhoods and partnership scrutiny • Using neighbourhood forums to gather scrutiny evidence • Carrying out neighbourhood scrutiny enquiries • Community involvement and scrutiny • Using scrutiny as a focus for community involvement e.g. consultation events, hearing witnesses

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