LSP futures

Topics: LSPs, communties of practice, LSP Futures

I attended an event on Wednesday for LSP Futures. LSP Futures is a non-profit network of partnership practitioners - such as LSP managers - and membership is by subscription. They meet regularly and focus on both policy and the practical issues of managing partnerships.

I was invited along to talk about PM Partner - a collaborative website focused on partnership issues - and about whether LSP Futures might want to use it to share their knowledge over the web. I also talked about the IDeA's new Community of Practice platform at www.communities.idea.gov.uk which is another web-based way of supporting face to face networks.

The event itself was largely focused on the White Paper and Paul Philpott and Cath Docherty from the DCLG helped to clarify some of the issues around LSPs and LAAs in the White Paper as well as improvement support for councils as well as partnerships.

Clearly there is still some room to play for - and interestingly Paul Philpott spoke about local authorities getting more involved in not just advising on guidance as it's developed but also writing guidance. This could be a more open way of going forward - a more mature relationship between central and local government. But - of course - we need to make sure that all local authority views are represented (and increasingly, too, the views of our partners in other sectors.)

We'll be discussing some of these issues in our forums at the Policy and Performance community of practice (registration required - but easy and free).

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I thought it was interesting that one of the things the network wanted to explore Results Based Accountabilty - which we have blogged about here before.



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