Working for the whole place
Council strategy, partnerships and place.
- Level
- Bitesize
- Learning time
- 1 hour 15 minutes
- Where
- Foundations of Local Government
- Price
- £39
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Certificate of Completion
Overview and Outcomes.
Overview
Councillors are elected on promises, and a corporate plan is how those promises reach a resident's doorstep. This module follows the golden thread from vision through service plans to lived experience, explains the Best Value Duty under the Local Government Act 1999 and how it is assessed, and distinguishes outputs from outcomes. Examples from Bolton, Dorset and Walsall show the thread working, and where it frays. No council, acting alone, delivers the outcomes residents want. This module explains why councils work with others, sets out the Local Government Association's spectrum from informal networks to full integration such as the Better Care Fund, and weighs benefits against accountability risks. It introduces co-production and place leadership in their basic form, and uses Rotherham's integration of health and social care to show what joint working can achieve.
What you'll develop
In this Bitesize, you will develop the ability to:
- Describe what a corporate plan contains and trace the five levels of the golden thread from vision to residents' lived experience.
- Explain the Best Value Duty and the staged way government assesses and enforces it.
- Distinguish outputs from outcomes and identify the common ways a golden thread breaks down.
- Explain the four drivers of partnership working: shared outcomes, complexity, cost and capacity, and legal duty.
- Place a partnership on the four stage spectrum and match its governance and accountability to its level of integration.
The Modules.
1 hour 15 minutes of learning.
- 03The Strategic FrameworkCouncillors are elected on promises, and a corporate plan is how those promises reach a resident's doorstep. This module follows the golden thread from vision through service plans to lived experience, explains the Best Value Duty under the Local Government Act 1999 and how it is assessed, and distinguishes outputs from outcomes. Examples from Bolton, Dorset and Walsall show the thread working, and where it frays.41 min
- 04Working With Others: Partnership and PlaceNo council, acting alone, delivers the outcomes residents want. This module explains why councils work with others, sets out the Local Government Association's spectrum from informal networks to full integration such as the Better Care Fund, and weighs benefits against accountability risks. It introduces co-production and place leadership in their basic form, and uses Rotherham's integration of health and social care to show what joint working can achieve.36 min
Keep going.
Part of the Foundations of Local Government topic, also sold whole as How councils work.
Go deeper, and pay only the difference
- You are hereBitesize, 1 hour 15 minutes, £39
- The whole topicFocus, How councils work, 4 hours, £69. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £30.
When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms
Also part of: Serving your community well, Your first days in office
