What’s New?
Every month we focus on a topic which is interesting and relevant to joined up working. If you want us to focus on a particular topic please let us know.
What is the difference between partnership working and joined up working?
Why is this important?
This month, we have launched a brand new Joined Up Working How To Guide.
This replaces our Partnership Working How To Guide. We have developed this new guide to provide information and examples of the wider range of ways that organisations can work together.
The guide reflects what is happening in Scotland – and elsewhere – as organisations begin to develop new and exciting ways of working together.
Over the last year, we asked lots of people working in regeneration what you think about our Partnership Working How To Guide. You felt that there were lots of other ways of working together which didn’t involve setting up a formal partnership.
What you said... • Partnership working implies more formal arrangements – something happening ‘around the table’ at a strategic level. • Joined up working is seen as a more practical, everyday reality – where organisations and staff work together to improve their services. It can mean organisations coming together for a very short time, to address an important issue – or working together on an ongoing basis. It can include partnership working, but is much wider than this. |
About the new Joined Up Working Guide
This new guide still includes the most useful information from the Partnership Working How To Guide, as well as:
• Background to joined up working, its benefits, and the challenges
• Up to date, interesting profiles of organisations who have worked well together
• Relevant resources and sources of further information on joined up working
To find out about all of the useful information on this new site, why not have a look at the Quick Links section.
How is the way people work changing?
Increasingly, organisations are moving on to more flexible joint working arrangements. Some of these are ambitious and high profile, including:
• setting up shared premises and ‘one stop shops’
• sharing staff
• joining up budgets
• joint ‘problem solving’ - coming together to address particular issues
Others are simple solutions, which can have a major impact on the way organisations work together:
• gathering information in a consistent way, and sharing it
• communicating or consulting with communities jointly
• developing signposting and referral tracking systems
This new Joined Up Working Guide includes information and examples of all of these ways of working. Have a look at the Quick Links section to find out more.
Tell us about your approach
Please tell us about your approach, and we should be able to profile it on our new site.
• Have you worked with others to achieve something you’re really proud of – and want others to hear how it worked?
• Or, is there something you want to warn others against?
We’re interested in any examples you think others could learn from. It doesn’t need to be complicated - often the simple things have the biggest impact.
