New Ideas for running the Partnership Board

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New Ideas for running the Partnership Board

• Des Sowerby

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What do we need to improve?

• Becoming powerful - truly
• Understanding issues completely
• Making clear plans (working in partnership)
• Checking that things happen
• Being respected truly
• Everyone checks with the PB / DPG before taking
  major decisions about LD
• We do things well and helpfully when individuals
  or organisations need help
• Being inclusive and representative
• Finding ways of including everyone who has LD
• Being more useful to family carers
• Improving our networks with other groups and
  organisations

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Urgency of Valuing People Now

• Coming this week
• We are being pressed to get ready to Make it
  Happen
• NB Valuing People didnt help people become
  powerful enough to really change things
• So we must take the opportunity of VPN and
  organise ourselves to really improve things in
  Kent
• What do we need to do to get ready?.
• Who decides what needs to happen?....

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Different ways of organising the Partnership Board

• Parliament
• improve representation
• Doesnt address increasing real power
• Federal Government
• DPGs take it in turns to lead
• Extra work responsibility
• Independent
• Wokingham
• ? Lose influence inside KCC and NHS?

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Leadership Team idea

• Working all the time, meeting weekly, taking
  actions
• Enough people employed to really do the work
• KASS staff support the PB and DPGs to do the work
  (eg Finance people and Planners)
• Executive Group to take decisions quickly
• Partnership Board meetings ? focus more on
• sharing between DPGs
• Agreeing major issues
• Doing less business

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How might this work?
Partnership Board
Strategic Board
DPGs
PB Exec Group
New Support arrangements
Housing
Good Health
Good Day
Personalisation
Equalities
Hate Crime
Jobs
Leadership Team
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How might a Scrutiny Group work?
Other KCC Housing Groups
Partnership Board
Other Housing organisations
HOUSING SCRUTINY GROUP 2 DPG Support Workers 3
people with LD I lead support person (eg SDT)
Housing Action Group
Housing Action Plan
Leadership Team
DPGs
JPPB
District Councils