Children's services commissioners have also outlined the importance of voluntary and community groups embracing partnership working and submitting joint-commissioning proposals that bring together shared knowledge and expertise.
Partnership working can come in many forms and there is a growing recognition within the voluntary and community sector that, if done well, collaboration can offer many benefits. The question now is how can we organise our future partnerships to deliver the best possible outcomes for children and young people?
Organisations might map what's out there in terms of partnership working and then assess ways in which they can get involved. It is clear that a method to support these relationships is needed, and one possibility is the creation of local partnership facilitators to help create and maintain these partnerships, as well as to provide support when things get tricky.
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