Issue - meetings

The attached report provides an update on the work undertaken to develop a protocol for values and behaviours for use within partnerships.

The Committee is invited to -

i)                    endorse the action taken by the Local Strategic Partnership to integrate the Standards in Partnerships Protocol into the LSP Partnership Agreement;

ii)                  request the Head of the Partnership Team to produce an Annual Report for this Committee on the effectiveness of the Partnership Agreement;

iii)                request the Monitoring Officer to promote the agreement across Cheshire East for those Partnerships outside the Local Strategic Partnership Framework; and

iv)                request the Constitution Committee to consider incorporating the agreed Protocol into the Constitution as part of its ongoing review.

The Committee considered a report which updated Members on the work undertaken to develop a protocol for values and behaviours for use within partnerships.

At its meeting held on 23 November 2009, the Committee established a working group of Members and Officers to develop a local protocol for use across Cheshire East.  The working group had met on several occasions to develop the protocol, which was subsequently submitted to the Local Strategic Partnership (LSP) Executive.

The LSP Executive had endorsed the principles and had incorporated the document into its recently  published Partnership Agreement.

RESOLVED:

That

1.                  the action taken by the Local Strategic Partnership to integrate the Standards in Partnerships protocol into the LSP Partnership Agreement be endorsed;

2.                  the Head of the Partnerships Team be requested to produce an Annual Report for this Committee on the effectiveness of the Partnership Agreement;

3.                  the Monitoring Officer be requested to promote the agreement across Cheshire East for those Partnerships outside the Local Strategic Partnership Framework; and

4.                  the Constitution Committee be requested to consider incorporating the agreed Protocol into the Constitution as part of its on-going review.