Welcome and introduction

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Welcome and introduction

• Cllr Dale Birch
• Deputy Leader, Bracknell Forest Council

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Common priorities

• Sustainable Community Strategy due for refresh
  2014
• 80 of the time we share the same broad
  priorities
• What about the other 20?
• Today is an opportunity to check the 20

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Scene-setting

• Strong track record of partnership working
• in Bracknell Forest
• Working together is increasingly important
• in the face of changes in delivery focus and
  funding.
• We have a wide range of knowledge and expertise
  in the room
• How can we get even more out of the partnership
  working that is already there?

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Aims for today

• Share what youre currently working on and
  current priorities
• Share your ambitions for the next year
• Identify challenges you face
• Identify actions to overcome those challenges

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Getting the right outcomes!

• Today is your chance to identify how we can work
  together to tackle some of the key issues in
  Bracknell Forest.
• Thank you for taking part

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Plan for the morning

• 930 Welcome
• 940 Group work session 1
• 1100 Coffee break
• 1115 Group work session 2 Breaking the shell
• 1235 Round up and way forward
• 1245 Lunch

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Bracknell Forest Partnership event 2013

• Wendy Crosson Smith
• Senior Consultant

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Group work

• Using partner update sheets and your knowledge
• What have you achieved over the past 12 months
• One achievement per post-it

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Priorities agreed November 2010

• Grow a strong and sustainable local economy
• Maintain a thriving and focused voluntary sector
  which allows all members of the community to play
  the part they wish
• Provide effective, quality healthcare and
  wellbeing services (interventions)
• Create a culture in which people develop a sense
  of responsibility for the wider community, and in
  which they respect the views and rights of others
• Provide accessible, high quality training,
  education and development to maximise employment
  opportunities at all stages of life
• Provide aspirational education that is able to
  stimulate young people

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Priorities agreed November 2010

• Sustain low levels of crime and ASB to provide a
  safe neighbourhood positively influence
  perceptions
• Provide appropriate housing that is affordable
  and meets peoples needs
• Create a culture and sense of pride and place
  with Bracknell Forest as a fantastic place to
  live and work
• Support people at all stages of life to live
  healthily, independently and maximise their
  potential
• Sustainable environment
• Improve public transport and sustainable travel
  options e.g. safe routes for cycling and walking

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Group work

• Using partner update sheets and your knowledge
• What have you achieved over the past 12 months
• One achievement per post-it
• Put it on sheets under appropriate priority

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Did we achieve in all priority areas

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Changes since 2010

• More flexibility to develop local models of
  partnership
• Increasing pressure on budgets and resources
• Abolition of Local Area Agreements
• No requirement for Local Strategic Partnership
• Bracknell Forest Partnership is seen as an
  example of good practice
• Close working relationships considered to be
  instrumental to success

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Important to our vision
Local communities strengthened
accessible facilities
People getting on well together
people feeling safe
Range of leisure activities
Bracknell Forest will have a reputation for its
distinguished green landscape and contemporary,
vibrant town centre.
Partner-ships
personalised public services
local jobs
integrating environmental concerns
Vibrant
Many neighbourhoods
prosperous and diverse economy
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Group work

• Using partner update sheets and your knowledge
• What youd like to achieve over the next 12
  months
• One achievement per post-it
• Put it on sheets under appropriate priority

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Lets take a break
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Priorities agreed today

• Work in partnership to build strong local
  communities where residents get on well together
  contribute to the local community resulting in
  people having a sense of belonging feeling safe
  happy
• Work in partnership collaborate widely across
  the region, to build a prosperous diverse
  economy, where residents work socialise and
  contribute towards their local economy

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Priorities agreed today

• Work in partnership to provide services
  facilities when where residents need them,
  prioritising early intervention prevention,
  integration of services to meet needs and digital
  access
• Work in partnership to build a strong brand for
  Bracknell Forest that is synonymous with a
  vibrant town centre, healthy happy communities
  and a prosperous diverse economy

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Breaking the shell
Adapted by RedQuadrant Creative Commons license
2010-11 Developed from an activity at
www.squarewheels.com
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Group work

• What barriers stand in the way of achieving
  these?
• One achievement per post-it

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Categorisation of barriers

• Brick walls
• - insurmountable obstacles we just have to live
  with!
• Paper walls
• - look like real walls until tested, but are
  easily overcome, even by individuals
• Partition walls
• - hard for individuals, but partnership working
  can overcome
• Mindset issues
• - like collective paper walls, common
  assumptions that are not easily overcome

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Types of challenges brick walls
Euro zone instability
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Types of challenges paper walls
Lack of knowledge of needs of young people
Community professional buy-in
Possible Partition
Public education
Reduced budgets
Poor articulation of need
Public consultation
Staff capacity
Partnership resource sharing
Work with them
Major government reforms
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Types of challenges Mindset challenges
Fear of failure
Collect evidence of success set meaningful
performance measures
Risk adverse culture
Not prepared to break the mould
Lack of confidence
Lack of support for change
Different cultures of partners
Fear of change
Change management
Partner attitudes
Always done things this way
Get to know each other
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Types of challenges Partition walls
Communication
Community dont understand plans
Complex systems
Silo working
Understanding customers
Lack of communication
National gov priorities vs local gov priorities
Consultation
Partnership working
Too many priorities lack of order
Reduced volunteering
Funding comes with strings
Lack of understanding of need
Protection of own budgets
Lack of strategic overview
Lack of continuity of personnel
Unclear objectives
Delivering more with less
Lack of resources
Conflicting partner priorities
Partnership planning
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Group work

• What actions can help overcome these challenges?
• What changes in the way we work could help us be
  more effective?
• Feedback together on flip charts

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Key actions

• Joint partnership planning with fewer, clearer
  objectives
• Public consultation around plan
• Measure success against clear performance
  measures
• Build a strong Bracknell brand

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Changes that would help us be more effective

• Clearer communication between organisations in
  the partnership
• Spending regular time together to understand each
  other plan
• Share resources
• Share data