Tag: Partnerships

Embracing a ‘doing with’ rather than a ‘doing to’ approach to working with communities is the aspiration for many forward thinking councils. Achieving this work is complex and needs all […]

24th March, 2026

Community engagement • Partnerships • Place shaping

Uncertainty about the future shape of key public sector organisations is not limited to those local authorities going through local government reorganisation. New ICB footprints, incoming strategic authorities, and a […]

28th January, 2026

Devolution and reorganisation • Partnerships • Place

Hearing about the Together we are powered by communities strategy at Westmorland and Furness Council

2nd December, 2025

Community engagement • Partnerships • Place

Integrated working across services, delivered within trusted community spaces, is a powerful way to provide better support for residents. Community assets such as libraries and cultural venues are often ideal […]

1st December, 2025

Community Power • Partnerships • Place

Hearing about outcomes partnerships with Bridges Outcomes Partnerships and AllChild

11th November, 2025

Outcomes focused • Partnerships • Prevention • Public Services

Exploring South Staffordshire's digital journey with residents at its heart

22nd October, 2025

digital transformation • Partnerships • Place • Public Services

Exploring a project targeting specific priority areas within a place as a way of tackling inequality and disadvantage

17th October, 2025

Neighbourhood • Partnerships • Place • Public Services

In partnership with Bridges Outcome Partnerships, this session will explore how outcomes-based approaches can transform the delivery of preventative public services. We’ll take a look at person-centred, outcomes-focused programmes that […]

12th August, 2025

Outcomes focused • Partnerships • Prevention • Public Services

Working collaboratively with communities and partners to help create vibrant and thriving places is a focus for many local authorities. Bringing everyone along on the journey and doing this during/following local […]

16th July, 2025

Community Power • Partnerships • Place

Exploring how local authorities can integrate climate risk into their strategic planning and work through the significant impacts on future service delivery.

23rd June, 2025

Climate change • Partnerships • Public Services • Transformation

Grace Duffy, Director of Policy, Influencing and Engagement at Bridges Outcomes Partnership, tells us about their work with local authorities and partnerships they have developed to build better outcomes for residents.

13th May, 2025

Community Power • Local government • Partnerships • Public Services

Graham Beamish and Marie Pye explain how Suffolk and Norfolk County Councils have saved 1000 years’ worth of care days for children and young people.

17th February, 2025

Childrens' Services • Local government • Partnerships • Prevention • Public Services

Making integration happen is by no means easy. Ambitions are often weighed down by complex restructuring, governance arrangements, and technical challenges around issues such as sharing data.

17th November, 2022

Partnerships

Ideas and reflections on embedding a more autonomous and permissive working culture; building greater resilience within the workforce; and creating a culture of co-production with local partners and communities.

2nd March, 2022

Commissioning and Procurement • Community Power • Culture • Participation and co-production • Partnerships

Councils share their lessons learned from partnerships with Europe, Miami-Dade County in Florida, and with a charity in Sierra Leone.

22nd July, 2021

Partnerships • Strategy and leadership

How to build relationships with Whitehall and present persuasive evidence to civil servants.

22nd February, 2021

Central government • Community Power • Local government • Members • Partnerships

New Local partnered with Social Finance for an innovation exchange on establishing a new working relationship with partners.

20th January, 2021

Community engagement • Community Power • Culture • Members • Partnerships

Creating partnerships to maximise impact on jobs, and how to match skills to opportunities.

8th December, 2020

Community Power • Economy and business • Education and skills • Employment • Members • Partnerships • Skills

How to create a sense of shared purpose and navigate each partner's different objectives and cultures.

9th November, 2020

Community Power • Culture • Members • Narrative building • Partnerships • Place building

‘Place transformation’ has become a well-used term, as the principles underpinning the positive transformation of place are becoming better understood and established. But does this mean we know what it […]

11th May, 2020

Partnerships • Place building • Public Services

Looking at data, culture, and other challenges to adopting preventative approaches.

20th September, 2019

Community engagement • Community Power • Culture • Data • Members • Partnerships

20th January, 2019

Community Power • Health and social care • Local government • Members • Partnerships

Insight into how to upskill the workforce in your area and building effective partnerships with the business community.

20th January, 2019

Community Power • Economy and business • Education and skills • Members • Partnerships • Skills

This article first appeared on Room 151. As 2018 draws to a close, it has ended in much the same way as it started for partnerships between the public and […]

18th December, 2018

Partnerships • Public Services • Strategy and leadership

Billed as a juicy political debate pitting the Labour Party’s preference for in-housing against the Conservative Party’s continued commitment to the role of the private sector on outsourcing, the discussions […]

22nd November, 2018

Partnerships • Public Services

The role of the private sector in the delivery of public services has been under intense scrutiny of late. It has been a year overshadowed by high-profile failings, perhaps most […]

9th October, 2018

Partnerships • Public Services

Exploring the pros and cons of joint ventures, wholly-owned housing delivery companies and council-led delivery.

29th July, 2018

Community Power • Housing • Innovation In-depth • Members • Partnerships

Last week saw another report released in the wake of Carillion’s collapse. “After Carillion: Public sector outsourcing and contracting”, a new report from the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee, […]

17th July, 2018

Partnerships • Public Services

Dave Sheridan, Divisional CEO of ENGIE UK, explains why trust is fundamental to being successful custodians of public services. The recent demise of Carillion, and the public debate thereafter, once […]

7th June, 2018

Partnerships • Public Services

Attention is increasingly focussing on how public services are delivered and what roles the public and private sectors should have. Budgetary pressures, an ageing society and the looming fallout from […]

30th May, 2018

Partnerships • Public Services

What’s clear from this report is that there is an appetite in the worlds of both health and social care for greater integration to deliver a more joined-up care experience […]

31st May, 2017

Partnerships • Public Services

Most councils indulge in partnerships, but how many actually achieve what they were set up to do? As a county council, our oldest partnership is with our unitary city and […]

16th March, 2017

Partnerships • Public Services

This report focuses on what local areas can do themselves to transform, and how central government can support this. What we really need is radical change of relationships at a local level, and to support areas to catalyse this...

6th May, 2014

Budgeting • Community Power • Local government finance • Partnerships • Research Reports

A new report from NLGN and CBI reveals that conversations between councils and independent providers of public services are stuck in low gear. This creates a risk that councils will […]

10th December, 2012

Partnerships • Research Reports

1st January, 1970

Partnerships • Public Sector Voices • Public Services