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Local Strategic Partnership Governance Arrangements: Fit for Now and the Future

Mark Tyson

Group Manager, Policy & Partnerships

Our presentation

1) What is the LSP? 2) Background on consultation 3) Current status of the Governance Framework 4) Changes to roles and functions of the Partnership Boards 5) Current and future LSP arrangements

The Barking & Dagenham Partnership

Brings together all those who want to make B&D a better place to live, study & work.

• Non statutory & non executive organisation
• Provides strategic direction to improve B&D quality of life
• Vision encompassed by the

Community Plan Community Plan

Partners include:

Residents Council Police Voluntary Sector Health Businesses Fire Jobcentre Plus B&D College

Scrutiny & the LSP

Each select committee is aligned with an LSP board for scrutiny purposes

Select Committee Board

Safer and Stronger Community Select Committee; Community Safety Partnership Children’s Services Select Committee; Children’s Trust Living and Working Select Committee; Jobs, Skills and Enterprise Board Clean and Green Board Health and Adult Services Select Committee. Health and Wellbeing Board Public Accounts and Audit Select Committee Public Service Board

Governance Framework Consultation

• Distributed to PSB &

Lead Officers in February

• Presentation to PAASC
• Responses, queries,
• Responses, queries,

amendments raised & collated

Consultation Responses Overall positive regarding the development

• f the framework, comments included:
• Request to include non-executive directors
• Discussions regarding methods of voting
• Definitions of accountable body & pooled funding
• Definitions of accountable body & pooled funding

decisions

• Appointment of chair & vice chair
• Transparency & accountability
• General length and complexity
• Some points of inconsistency, style, etc.

Changes to the Partnership Structure

April 2010 PSB away day amended the structure

Public Service Board …clean… …fair & respectful… Local Strategic Partnership. …safe…

.

Community Safety Partnership Health & Wellbeing Board Clean & Green Board Skills, Jobs & Enterprise Board Children’s Trust Board …prosperous… …healthy… …and where our young people

= everybody’s responsibility

are inspired and successful.

Statutory changes to the theme boards

• Children’s Trust
• ‘statutory’ status to be removed in line with health and education

reforms, however partners hope to continue in its current format

• Health & Wellbeing
• New statutory functions imminent with Health White Paper
• To operate in its new role in shadow form from January, with new

membership and scrutiny functions

• Skills, Jobs & Enterprise
• Skills, Jobs & Enterprise
• Local Enterprise Partnerships will require the involvement of the

same partners, potentially the Board may take on the responsibility

• f LEP and the statutory requirements.
• Remaining relatively stable:
• Community Safety Partnership, having just taken on Stronger

Board functions

• Clean & Green Board, with a more ‘think tank’ format

Governance Framework

• Main body of the framework completed
• Further work remains on individual boards as they emerge and

develop

• Transparency in the decision making and financial

accountability processes

• Clarity that each organisation is a partner, accountable
• Clarity that each organisation is a partner, accountable

to their own governance structures

• Critical to the protection of the Council’s interests. No Council
• fficer can be outvoted and forced into a decision against the

Council’s position. There is no expectation that officers behave outside their delegated authority.

• Clear (but not heavy-handed) protocols for scrutiny,

behaviour and expectations of partners

Governance Framework

Available on Partnership website to download and read Document will continue to develop as roles of boards develop boards develop Comments welcomed. www.barkingdagenhampartnership.org.uk/governance

The Future of LSPs?

• Loss of the ‘monitoring role’
• End of LAA, CAA and other regimes that LSPs were

nominally ‘monitoring’

• But a need to ensure continued delivery for the community
• Big challenges ahead
• Comprehensive Spending Review
• Need to meet them together
• Need to meet them together
• Some ‘space’ for debate and discussion needed, and for

aligning our ambitions

» Need the ‘single view of the customer’

• Must reduce the bureaucratic burden
• More streamlined documentation and processes
• More emphasis on departmental support, to bring LSP in line

with the core work of the Council with its partners

Questions