Partnership in practice
Systems law, partnership and relationships over structures.
Around four hours on partnership in practice: Welsh law as a systems framework, English integrated care and place, the foundations of partnership, leading through partnership, relationships over structures and three integration cases.
- Level
- Focus
- Learning time
- 4 hours
- Where
- Communities and systems
- Price
- £69
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Certificate of Completion, or Certificate of Completion and Assessment with a short assessment
Overview and Outcomes.
Who It's For
Partnership leads and senior leaders in health, social care, councils and the voluntary sector
Overview
Leading a partnership means carrying the outcome without holding the controls. Taken from Joining up care, this course begins in Wales, where the Well-being of Future Generations Act writes systems thinking into law through its five ways of working and Public Services Boards, with Gwent working alongside Sir Michael Marmot's Institute of Health Equity. It then turns to England's Integrated Care Boards, place and devolution, and the lessons of Total Place. The foundations of partnership working follow, from spectator to transform, then leading through partnership with Tuckman, Kanter and Hansen. The last section covers relationships over structures and a capstone on Torbay, the Regional Integration Fund and Gwent.
Aims
The course is there to help leaders use the law as a framework for joint action rather than a reporting exercise, see honestly where their partnership sits on the continuum, and lead through relationship rather than structure, keeping one person's journey at the centre of shared work.
In summary, you will be able to:
- Assess whether a partnership's goal could be met by reporting alone, and plan a goal and first steps that require partners to change.
- Plan a partnership's design using the four design questions and the golden rules, agreeing purpose before structure.
- Compare leading through structure with leading through relationship, and apply the design for Mrs Smith approach to a service of your own.
What you'll develop
Through this Focus course, you will build the ability to:
- Explain how the five ways of working in the Well-being of Future Generations Act map onto systems ideas such as delays, the fundamental solution and boundary critique.
- Describe the role of Integrated Care Boards and the main steps in twenty years of English place-based reform.
- Explain the working definition of partnering and use four questions to test whether a new partnership is genuinely needed.
- Explain why every partnership is contested space and use four practical moves to bring negotiated goals, unequal power, working assumptions and competing accountabilities into the open.
- Explain why relationships are the infrastructure of integration, using Huxham and Vangen's distinction between collaborative advantage and collaborative inertia.
- Analyse Torbay, the Regional Integration Fund and Gwent through the themes of integration, identifying what each case shares and what it took, over years, to change things for people.
- Describe the Public Services Board cycle and identify where collaborative inertia and long delays are most likely to set in.
- Identify the right scale, system, place or neighbourhood, for a decision and the practices that make leading at place work.
Built from 3 parts.
4 hours of learning.
- 01Where law and place meetWelsh law, integrated care and devolutionBitesize · Systems Leadership2 modules
- 02Better togetherPartnership working and collaborative leadershipBitesize · Working with Communities and Partnerships2 modules
- 03Relationships over structuresLeading integration, with case studiesBitesize · Leading Health and Social Care Integration2 modules