Parish councils and partnerships
Lewes District Council and the Sussex Association of Local Councils met to support partnership working on their shared objectives.
Councillor Elizabeth Lee, Lewes District Council Lead Member for the Community, said: “The Conference was fundamental in providing a sound basis for future co-operation. Its success is a tribute to the delegates’ commitment to working closely and to making partnerships have an impact on the wellbeing of our local communities."
Staffordshire connects
The Staffordshire Connects partnership held its Beacon Open Day this month and brought together practitioners from around the country. A highlight of the event was a film designed to:
...showcase how it had made capital savings of £1.8m by investing in systems together and was saving more than £400,000 a year by maintaining and developing those systems jointly. The DVD also revealed that annual efficiency savings of more than £750,000 were expected to arise across the partnership, once its Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system had been fully implemented – enabling 80 per cent of customer enquiries to be dealt with at first time of asking
The partnership is made up with the 10 councils in Staffordshire and has its own website. The site includes partnership papers (e.g. business case, communication protocols) for anyone interested in how they've done it.
You can also find out more about the IDeA Beacon scheme here.
Adopting best practice
Three neighbouring Councils have worked together to launch a new website to attract more people willing to adopt children. Partners in Adoption, the adoption consortium for the London Borough of Havering, Thurrock and Southend Councils, have launched a new website at www.partners-in-adoption.co.uk
The site looks pretty good - and has absolutely loads of information about the adoption process in easy to understand language.
In support to the site, Partners in Adoption will be hosting an Adoption Open Evening to be held at the Orsett Hall Hotel from 6.30pm on Wednesday 25 October. Anyone interested in adoption is invited to attend.
The website isn't fully populated yet, but has a place for adoption stories. That could be a really powerful way of showing prospective parents what adoption is about. Here's a US site that features adoption stories - as well as profiles of children wanting to be adopted (something I'm not sure would happen in the UK).
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