WELCOME TO THE SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE PARTNERSHIP'S HOMEPAGE
Our Vision: "South Gloucestershire - a great place to live and work.
By working in partnership, our vision is for everyone who lives and works in South Gloucestershire to fulfil their potential, enjoy an excellent quality of life and support others in their communities whilst protecting the environment."
The next meeting of the South Gloucestershire Partnership is on 23rd January 2009 - time and venue to be confirmed.
Documents relating to the most recent meetings can be found at
http://council.southglos.gov.uk/ieListMeetings.aspx?CId=180&Year=2008
and previous ones at
http://council.southglos.gov.uk/mgCalendarMonthView.aspx?XXR=0&MT=6&DD=2008&ACT=Go&
What's New
Nov 2008: Several members of the South Gloucestershire Partnership came to a Youth Summit attended by 10 local secondary schools and hosted by South Goucestershire Council's Children and Young People Department. Alongside members of the Council's spatial planning team, partners talked to about 80 Year 9 students and heard their likes and dislikes about the area and their hopes for the future. Work is being done to analyse all the comments and feedback will be given to all schools as soon as possible.
Oct 2008: We would like to welcome two new members - Rachel Robinson the new Chief Executive of The Care Forum and Chris Foley who takes over from Peter Holden of the South West Regional Development Agency.
Sept 2008: We made it - we are now a 4 star authority! And we got there through strong partnership working amongst other things. The council increased its star rating from three to the maximum of four stars as a result of achieving the highest possible score in a major inspection of services – one of only a handful of authorities across the country to accomplish this.
The Audit Commission's report said: “Partnership working is a major strength and has been used to increase capacity considerably within the council, its communities and partners…. Strategic Partnerships have delivered improvements on the ground helping the council to achieve nine out of its 12 Local Public Service Agreement targets in 2006/07... ”
Phil Suter, Audit Commission senior manager, said: “South Gloucestershire Council is performing strongly. It is ambitious for its communities and works effectively with partners and the community to address issues surrounding the growth of the area. This is helped by excellent leadership and cross party working ...”
South Gloucestershire was also scored on how well it uses its resources to deliver its ambitions and priorities and became the first unitary authority in the country to score a maximum of four for ‘capacity’. This means the council has been judged as excellent in the way staff, councillors and partners work together to deliver cost efficient, high-quality services.
Other areas of good performance highlighted included:
- a strong focus on financial management and value for money with good results
- excellent community, managerial and political leadership
- commendable cross-party working which enhances capacity, with partners commenting on “how well the council works across all its political parties”
Copies of the report are available from South Gloucestershire Council or on the Audit Commission website at www.audit-commission.gov.uk/reports
June 2008: The Annual Report 2007/08 of the South Gloucestershire Partnership was signed off at its last meeting at the end of June. It included achievements such as publishing the new Sustainable Community Strategy, developing a new Local Area Agreement and being involved in the Local Development Framework through the Core Strategy. It also highlights the key benefits of working in partnership and future areas of work upon which the SGP will be focussing in the coming year.
For more information, please contact the Strategic Partnership and Planning Team on 01454 863868 or via strategicplanning@southglos.gov.uk