Partnership Working: Policy and Practice

✍ Scribed by Susan Balloch

• Publisher: Policy Pr
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 305
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Over the past 10 years partnership working has become a central feature of public services. This book analyses experience of partnerships in different policy fields, identifying the theoretical and practical impediments to making partnership work and critically evaluating the advantages and disadvantages for those involved. Its broad coverage goes beyond the confines of statutory partnerships, addressing other important forms of collaboration between voluntary, private and statutory sectors and service users and community and minority groups.Through a wide range of perspectives, "Partnership working" aims to integrate theory and practice across a number of policy areas. Using a variety of models, it: highlights both positive and negative aspects of partnership working at political, cultural and technical levels; shows how partnerships can empower people and groups through effective collaboration; suggests some of the principles on which good practice should be based and the resources required; and addresses key issues of accountability, representation and social exclusion. The book provides important reading for academics, policy makers, service providers and senior practitioners in community development and community safety, local government, housing, social services and health. It should also be a valuable resource for those working in voluntary organisations and students on professional courses.

✦ Table of Contents

PARTNERSHIP WORKING......Page 2
Contents......Page 4
List of tables and figures......Page 6
Notes on contributors......Page 7
Does partnership makes sense?......Page 10
The background to partnership working......Page 11
Current policy initiatives......Page 12
Types of partnership......Page 15
Current debates on partnerships: the potential and the pitfalls......Page 16
Reading this book......Page 18
Context......Page 26
Local service delivery systems......Page 27
Agency characteristics......Page 29
Rhetoric and reality in relation to holism......Page 34
Types of additional cost flowing from lack of holism......Page 35
Some strategies for improving interagency working......Page 38
The simulation exercise......Page 42
Implications for regeneration programmes......Page 44
Appendix: Glossary......Page 45
Introduction......Page 48
Power, capacity building and social capital......Page 49
Partnerships and power: experiences in practice......Page 53
Illustrations from area regeneration partnerships in Britain......Page 54
Challenging power imbalances within regeneration partnerships......Page 59
Working towards genuine partnerships......Page 62
Introduction......Page 66
Local government anti-poverty strategies......Page 67
The extent of anti-poverty partnership working......Page 71
Partnership development......Page 74
Partnership organisation and management......Page 75
Community representation......Page 78
The impact of local authority anti-poverty and social inclusion partnerships......Page 80
Conclusions and issues for future anti-poverty and social inclusion partnerships in local government......Page 81
The place of partnership in social housing......Page 86
The policy context for partnership......Page 87
Levels of partnership......Page 89
Partnership in practice: organisational responses......Page 91
What is the significance of partnership working in the social housing sector?......Page 100
Introduction......Page 106
Barriers to partnership......Page 108
Partnership and housing......Page 109
Why is housing important?......Page 110
The Royal Borough of Kingston workshops......Page 111
Needs of staff......Page 112
Key themes......Page 114
Ideas for improving partnership working......Page 115
Partnership with voluntary organisations and service users......Page 117
Conclusion......Page 120
6. The potential of project status to support partnerships......Page 126
Part One: challenges facing partnership projects......Page 128
Part Two: experience of two partnership projects......Page 134
Perceived strengths and weaknesses of the case study project......Page 139
Perceived weaknesses of Projects A and B......Page 142
Conclusion......Page 146
7. Promoting independence:a partnership approach to supporting older people in the community......Page 152
Inclusive or exclusive partnerships?......Page 153
A Joint Continuing Care (JCC) project......Page 157
User and carer views......Page 159
User and carer perceptions of value for money......Page 162
Practitioner experiences of the JCC project......Page 163
Promoting positive outcomes through inclusive partnerships......Page 166
Extending partnerships with older people to avoid unnecessary dependency......Page 168
Moving from gesture involvement to genuine partnership......Page 169
Conclusion......Page 170
Introduction......Page 174
Progress in partnership......Page 175
Direct payments......Page 179
User-defined outcomes......Page 182
Conclusion......Page 186
Introduction......Page 190
The English public health context......Page 191
The international context......Page 195
Settings-based approach to health promotion......Page 197
Social capital as a resource for health improvement......Page 198
Mechanisms to facilitate the production of social capital......Page 200
WHO recommendations to mobilise partnerships......Page 201
Key issues for effective partnership working for health improvement......Page 202
Conclusion......Page 205
10. Partnership and power: the role of black and minority ethnic voluntary organisations in challenging racism......Page 212
Is there a black and minority ethnic voluntary sector?......Page 213
Limitations of existing source......Page 214
Evidence from the Race Equality Unit survey......Page 215
Evidence from the Ethnic Monitoring in Social Services (EMSS) project......Page 219
Conclusion......Page 226
Final remarks......Page 229
Introduction......Page 232
What can be involved?......Page 233
Widening the brief, changing the culture......Page 235
The research......Page 236
Issues, problems and tensions......Page 238
Core responsibilities......Page 239
Managing demands on the service......Page 240
Doing less by taking the lead?......Page 242
Conclusion......Page 247
12. Partnership – participation – power: the meaning of empowerment in post-industrial society......Page 252
Education Action Zones – partnership for personal development?......Page 255
Empowerment in action......Page 259
Opposition of ‘banking education’ and ‘dialogic education’......Page 260
Back to Newcastle......Page 261
Is empowerment possible?......Page 263
Conclusion......Page 265
Why is space important?......Page 270
1. The local prevalence and incidence of the social problem targeted by the multiagency project......Page 272
2. The relative mobility, or lack of mobility, of the target community......Page 276
3. The mobility of professional services and different perceptions of professional mobility......Page 278
4. The complex relationship between space, cultures and the subculture associated with the social problem targeted......Page 281
5. The relationship between agency culture and spatial locations......Page 284
A story of a multidisciplinary team and its spatial approach......Page 285
Conclusion......Page 288
Conclusion – can partnerships work?......Page 292
Challenges to partnerships......Page 293
Making partnerships work......Page 295
Index......Page 298