Developing Partnering Arrangements with Supporting People Providers (RB Kensington & Chelsea)
The London Centre of Excellence recently merged with London's improvement body - Capital Ambition - and London Connects, to form London's Improvement and Efficiency Partnership (IEP). The new organisation retains the name Capital Ambition, and is responsible for all former LCE projects.
A website is being created for the new Capital Ambition, but in the meantime this site continues to be updated with all the latest information on this project, as well as important legacy documents.
This project explores how partnering arrangements could bring about efficiencies and improvements in the commissioning of Supporting People services for single homeless people and rough sleepers across London.
The project is led by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea’s Supporting People programme and will be developed in partnership with the London Boroughs of Brent, Camden, Hackney and Lambeth and one provider organisation.
The project will look at:
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How to keep a customer and client focus
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How to design and manage effective partnering arrangements
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How to manage and sustain partnering arrangements
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How to achieve risk sharing
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How to achieve efficiencies through partnering
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How to implement partnering projects successfully
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How to measure and evaluate stakeholder outcomes from partnering
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How to monitor and review partnering arrangements.
This will be achieved by organising and running a scoping event with authorities and providers to examine the issues and the provider’s perspective. Furthermore, a summary of recommendations for authorities on the appropriateness of implementing partnering arrangements will be drawn up. The project will also identify the ability of partnering arrangements to deliver efficiencies to the Supporting People programme. These results will be disseminated to other London authorities.
The project will develop a range of models for partnering arrangements which will consider:
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Partnering arrangements with one provider across all authorities using a framework agreement
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Partnering arrangements with one provider across all their services within one authority.
The project will also consider the implications of Local Area Agreements (LAAs) for partnering arrangements (considering that the Supporting People programme will be included in the LAA by 2009) and how this would support the development of cross-authority commissioning partnerships across homelessness, with the possibility of the development of a multi-area agreement and the pooling or alignment of funding.
Project Manager: Liz Zacharias liz.zacharias@rbkc.gov.uk