About the Devon Strategic Partnership
The Delivery Board
Role
- Lead the drafting of the Sustainable Community Strategy and ensure
that it is properly focussed and deliverable, and lead the development
of the new 2008 Local Area Agreement and its subsequent annual
refresh. - Have responsibility for the delivery of the Sustainable Community
Strategy, and Local Area Agreement and for implementing action in
theme groups and partner organisations. This includes performance
management of the Sustainable Community Strategy and Local Area
Agreement , on an exceptions basis, looking for opportunities to
support agencies where necessary (taking on the responsibilities of the
Local Area Agreement Programme Board) - Review and challenge delivery plans of statutory partner agencies in
light of the shared strategic understanding. The Delivery Board should
strengthen mutual accountability through holding each other to
account. - Open up lines of communication and develop agreement between
agencies. In a time of declining resources to maximise the advantages
to be gained from joint working and discussion - Take operational decisions particularly about issues spanning more
than one theme - Report regularly to the DSP Partnership Board on the achievements
towards the delivery of the Sustainable Community Strategy and Local
Area Agreement - Ensure partnership working is effective and propose changes where
problems occur - Commission thinking and research to feed into strategy formulation
(e.g. from the Devon Futures Group) - Make clear links between county-wide priorities and the work of each of
the themed partnerships, including linkages between themes - Strive for an effective balance between thematic and geographical
focus - To individually and collectively act as advocates for the delivery of the
Sustainable Community Strategy and Local Area Agreement - Take issues back into members' organisations and champion
partnership delivery. - Drive the shared services and efficiency agenda, which extends
beyond local government. - Drive the development of a Devon response to the Government's new
performance regime. - Work together more effectively on communication and PR in relation to
the big issues - Provide high-level co-ordination of resilience planning