Partner support

The Audit Commission's recent report Working better together acknowledges the complexity of the task for local strategic partnerships. Partnership working is at the heart of much government policy, although working in partnership can be a risky activity. Working in partnership doesn't guarantee the delivery of better outcomes, or value for money. Part of the Salford's LSP support team's remit is to support the improved partnership working in Salford. These pages provide common resources, in one place which will help to support the partnership working in the city. Please let us know whether you find them helpful and if there are other things you think should be included on these pages.

Trying to find a key strategy? Take a look at our publications pages - we do try to put links to documents that are important for the partnership - local and national. If you would like the to have yours included on this website please let us know.
Need to know when partnership meetings and events are taking place? Check up the details of forthcoming partnership meetings and events, find minutes and papers from previous meetings in our meeting archive or find out about meetings and events across the partnership.
What do we mean by 'whole systems' working? Here is a short powerpoint which gives a bit of background on whole systems work in Salford (designed to be either read on a pc screen or printed out - rather than projected to a big group).
How well is your partnership working? If you'd like help to assess effectiveness of your partnership use the Principles IN Good Governance and Governance Review Tool. If you would like further information or advice please contact the LSP team's Governance Officer Gerry Stone.
If you're planning to run a Spotlight or are planning to redesign services across a number of partner organisations the Spotlight Toolkit might help. Go to the Spotlight pages to download the toolkit.
Organising partnership events - some practical advice. The LSP team often get asked for advice about running successful events. We are currently pulling some of our expertise together to make it available as a partner resource. Watch this Space!
Find out what the Audit Commission's guidance on managing LSPs advises. The guidance offers a self assessment tool for improving partner working and another on improving governance structures. Take a look by following this link.