Lincolnshire
County Council
Developing Partnership Excellence
Overview:
Lincolnshire County Council (LCC) has a long term strategy to deliver
excellent public services through partnership working. This will include
working with other authorities, voluntary, public sector and business
partners.
Our approach:
Working inclusively with senior managers and staff within LCC and their
partners a series of working sessions were held throughout the autumn of
2005, to develop a single partnering framework for all to adopt and use.
The framework is an interactive tool contained on a CD-Rom. It enables a
partnership manager to check that all aspects, parameters and
charateristics of successful partnerships are in place and are working
correctly. It can be used to diagnose weaknesses and help to direct
corrective actions.
The framework has been adopted by LCC and is now being implemented throughout
LCC and its partners. A number of partnership champions from within LCC and
its partners will be given a series of detailed training and awareness
sessions by experts from Bridge. Once implemented and the champions
trained, it is planned that all existing partnerships will be reviewed
using the new tool and plans for their further improvement put in place.
Outcome:
From a point where our client needed to develop a single corporate
approach to partnering and collaboration we were able to rapidly develop a
programme which included working with their partners. The authority and
their partners will be approaching partnership collaboration using a single
approach and common tools contained within a CD ROM.
Click here
to see a demonstration version of the framework
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