Are you getting the most from your partnerships?
Working with partners makes the best use of resources
such as budgets, people, systems and data and in the 
current economic
climate, more and more organisations need to investigate the
possibilities of working together.
The most obvious challenge facing the public
sector is reduced budgets and we can help. We have helped organisations
share management and services to bring around efficiencies. We have
helped others to change the focus of their management team to become
more flexible and pro-active to deal with the challenge of less funding.
Our team comes from a wide variety of backgrounds
and bring their wealth of experience so that we can help you. We are
from the public, private and voluntary sectors, and some of us continue
to hold Non-Executive roles in PCTs for example, or voluntary roles in
local community groups. We are aware of the challenges facing you.
“YCChange's approach to
neighbourhood working has been an excellent one. They have continued to
be flexible, offering us several options on most issues instead of only
one recommended outcome. Their understanding of community cohesion and
empowerment, the targets of the Local Strategic Partnership, and
providing Local Community Action Plan options, has been very helpful as
we continue to discuss what steps our Local Strategic Partnership may
wish to take."
Ian Wolstenholme, Head
of Partnerships, Richmondshire District Council
YCChange has a successful track record of working
with partnerships of all kinds, including Local Strategic Partnerships,
those in two tier areas, and local communities.
To support your effectiveness we will look at your
shared priorities and make sure that these feature within all your
organisations so that you are working towards the same goal. We look at
your approaches to value for money, harmonisation, performance
management, capacity and sustainability, so that you can achieve your
goals set for the partnership.
YCChange
always concentrates on the positive aspects of change. Being positive means
that it is easier to find ways around problems, and people involved in the
process tend to be more creative and productive, and more 
willing to work
together. We make it possible for partners to make joint commitments, and we
support everybody through the changes required.
“Yvonne led on our CAA Self
Evaluation as part of the national pilot. She challenged our approach and
made sure that what we included were those things we truly did in
partnership – over and above our usual remit.”
Peter
Simpson
Chief Executive
Hambleton District Council
All partnerships are risky, and sometimes one of the
partners will want to go in a different direction. Often this results in the
partnership breaking down rather than negotiating and moving on to a
different kind of relationship. The breakdown has financial and other
consequences and is to be avoided if at all possible. YCChange can help
guide the partners through these scary times to a redefined and more stable
partnership.
At any time we can work with the partners to make sure
goals are being met, not just financial but also softer targets such as
vision, purpose and practice. As outside consultants, we are independent and
seen as objective by the partners, and as a result participants in the
process are ready to cooperate.
We can help
• LSP – Top Team Capacity Building
• Partnership Healthcheck
• Partnership Working – Fit For Purpose
• Joint Commissioning
• Approach to Total Place
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