Peak Partners - Partner Support ::

Action Plan: Partner Support

Area of Work 1 – Partner Organisation Support

Aim: To provide mutual support in order to help partners work more effectively within their own organisations.

Objectives:

To identify and promote quality standards to ensure the delivery of quality services.
Identify and take advantage of opportunities to share and hence make efficient use of resources across the partner organisations.
Identify and share good practice and find ways to build on this mutual support for the benefit of partners.
Provide opportunities to share skills and experience in order to assist individual partners with specific management or delivery issues / priorities.

Action	Agenda set more by PP as a whole. Rolling list of agenda items. Agenda request circulated two weeks before the meeting.
Status	Ongoing - High priority - Now
How	Proforma to be circulate prior to meeting for agenda items
Who	All Partners - DDCVS lead.

Action	First Agenda item to explore methods of sharing good practice as part of information sharing activities and marketing.
Status	Out-standing - Medium priority - Now and long-term - Medium scale
How	Each partner identifies an area of 'good practice' in that work. Then 'peer previews' by partners for promotional purposes. Share via meetings, email, PR materials, website review.
Who	PDRDF lead.

Action	Develop mentoring to support new partners, and encourage other staff to become involved in PP. Make sure this is clear & willing to take responsibility for this from each member.
Status	Ongoing - Low priority - Long term - Small scale
How	For each new partner agree a 'buddy' to inform new partner, arrange pre PP meeting so that new partner is welcomed and aware of what is happening. Carry out annual review of partnership representation at first meeting of the New Year.
Who	All

Action	Develop list of approved quality standards. Ongoing (via Change Up)
Status	Complete
How	Responsibility of each organisation & does PPRA aspire to have / earn its own QS?
Who	DDCVS - Part of change up project.