Effective Partnerships Delivering the Hallmarks of Effective Partnerships

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Effective PartnershipsDelivering the Hallmarks
of Effective Partnerships

• ACC Dan Clacher
• Head of Police and Partnerships Standards Unit
• Home Office

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Changing Delivery Landscape

• CDRP reform
• revised statutory framework
• good practice guidance
• ongoing implementation support
• APACS (Assessment of Policing and Community
  Safety)
• the new performance framework for crime and
  policing
• New PSAs
• more flexible approach to community safety
  priorities

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Aims of Reform Programme

• High performing CDRPs able to respond the crime
  and disorder issues of greatest local concern
• To bring underperforming areas up to a set of
  minimum standards
• To help CDRPs deliver an intelligence-led
  approach to business
• To trust local areas to deliver, with far fewer
  targets or mandates from the Government
• Revised support arrangements where CDRPs have
  performance concerns

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The changing statutory framework

• New minimum standards in effect from April 2008
  - covering
• Who needs to be at the partnership table
• Production of a strategic assessment an
  assessment of the main community safety / crime
  and disorder challenges in the locality
• Production of a plan to deliver the agreed
  priorities
• The requirement in two tier areas to have a
  community safety structure to manage the
  relationship with the LSP
• Requirements to engage and consult with
  communities
• Obligations to share information where this is
  held by partners

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In other words

• A process for sharing information already held by
  partners
• An assessment, using that information, of the
  issues affecting CDRP
• Agreeing what the CDRPs priorities are
• A plan which explains how they will be delivered
• Partnerships in dialogue with communities to both
  inform these processes and explain the outcomes

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Hallmarks of Effective Partnerships

• The six Hallmarks of Effective Partnership
  summarise the core elements of effective
  partnership working and build on the statutory
  requirements
• Empowered and effective leadership
• Intelligence-led business processes
• Effective and responsive delivery structures
• Community engagement
• Visible and constructive accountability
• Appropriate skills and knowledge

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Deliver and Embed

• We believe that statutory requirements and
  Hallmarks reflect much of what you are doing
  already
• Most partnerships will be able to meet new
  requirements without many changes
• However recognise that challenges ahead as you
  work to deliver these
• We will work with you to meet these challenges as
  they occur

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Challenges Ahead

• Capacity and capability
• Prescription and flexibility
• Delivery landscape
• Compliance and trust
• Two tier areas and LSPs
• Performance management frameworks

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How we will support you

• Guidance on Standards and Hallmarks
• Regional events and workshops
• Training events on specific themes
• Disseminate learning from Partnership Support
  Programmes
• Training on strategic assessments

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What next?

• In practical terms, familiarise yourself with the
  guidance and identify what you need to do to meet
  new requirements
• Dont underestimate current levels of knowledge
  and skills not starting from scratch
• By 1 April 2008 Prepare a partnership plan
  under new requirements
• However, we see this as a transition year we
  all have to learn how this works