Bookings are now open for the NAWDO Partnerships Workshop on 21st September 2015. The venue is the LGA, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HZ.
The programme is below. The purposes of the Workshop are: -
1.To invigorate and support the partnerships agenda nationally, especially in terms of financial and performance benefits.
2.Following the change in NAWDO’s Constitution to accept ‘partnerships’ as members, to test the appetite to set-up a NAWDO Partnerships Forum and lay the foundations of what we do next.
There is no cost to attend the Workshop. Nor is it a requirement you must be a NAWDO member to attend.
We’re keen to have partnership managers attending; officers who may be considering the value of partnership working; officers who have an existing partnership and wish to gain more from it; and anyone else who has an interest in making progress on partnership working.
Excellent Speakers
The Workshop has expert leadership and facilitation by Dr Jane Beasley (Beasley Associates) and John Enright (Local Partnerships).
The Workshop is also well assisted by Government with presentations by senior colleagues Robert Vaughan (DEFRA) and Nick Bagshaw (DCLG).
Bookings: First come first served (if over-subscribed we may need to review numbers coming from the same partnership area)
Bookings are now open. Please email Paul Vanston direct either for yourself or for a colleague (please provide your colleague’s email address).
Workshop Programme
10.30 Arrival/refreshments.
11.00 Welcome and Purpose. Paul Vanston
11.10 Rationale for developing partnerships: challenges and wins. John Enright
11.30 Why have a NAWDO partnerships forum? How could it add value? Dr Jane Beasley
11.50 Questions for John and Jane.
12.10 Government perspectives on partnerships: DEFRA and DCLG. Robert Vaughan, Nick Bagshaw
12.30 Questions to Robert and Nick.
12.45 Lunch.
13.30 Discussion 1: A framework for a NAWDO partnerships forum. Led by Dr Jane Beasley
How do participants feel about a NAWDO partnerships forum?
Why would you want it? What would you want it to do?
How often would it come together? Where is preferred?
What leadership would it need?
14.15 Discussion 2: Progressing partnership working nationally. Led by John Enright
What are the benefits for WDAs? Why bother with partnerships?
How are obstacles tackled? (e.g. fears over sovereignty loss).
Where can greater partnership working be taken forward?
15.00 Summary of Workshop Actions Paul Vanston
15.05 Close
