Agenda Item

Action

1. Welcome & Apologies

2. Minutes of the last meeting

The minutes were taken as read and accepted as a correct record.

Mattes arising:

Resignation from Partnership

Paul informed the partnership that Alison White has resigned from the partnership due to work commitments.

The partners expressed their thanks to Alison for her contribution to date.

Feedback Reform corporation
Paul informed the partners that he wanted to retract his statement regarding non-response from Jo and clarify that Jo had submitted his report on time. The reference group was currently reviewing the report and will report back at a later date.

Paul will address the behaviour issue at a separate meeting.  

3. Co-ordinators Report

Renate presented the report and budgets and highlighted that funding for facilitation will run out end February. Sarah assured the partners that NVSC will continue to facilitate the partnership by a member of staff.

Partners approved the budget and agreed that NVSC will be delivering the ChangeUp website content (£3,000) (Conflict & Change will deliver the framework of the site £1,000).

RRG reminded partners to claim partners costs towards the end of next financial year.

RRG

4. Feedback from Working Groups – Current ChangeUp Projects

Partners were asked to consider the proposal of a uniform day rate of £ 300. Partners agreed to set an hourly rate of £ 40 instead, as this would be easier to administer. Renate gave an outline of the projects which are to be delivered jointly by the partners. A schedule proposal from each working group was presented to the partners for comment:

Launch

Partners decided that more time needed to be spent on exploring the types of partnerships and what they mean. Content and format of leaflet will be discussed at the Partners’ Awayday and no further work will be done until then.

Quality Systems

Caroline suggested that Charter Mark was a system that was valued by local authorities and asked that we check with CES if they offer this.

Full Cost Recovery

As none of the partners attended the working group meeting, Renate will re-schedule.

Tendering

Caroline said that deciding on commissioning had legal implications for organisations and that the working group consider this.

WAN Software

Partners were unsure about the value of this work. Questions were asked if the software was compatible with SAGE software. It was suggested that we had a demo of the WAN software to help decide whether to continue with this work or whether to re-set it. Caroline said that they asked questions around training in their initial project.

 5. Compact Implementation Group

No update

6. Olympics

 No update

7. Feedback from Reference Group, Pilot Reform Corporation

The reference group will report back at another meeting.

8. Any other Business

Sarah circulated a report ‘Building Blocks – developing second tier support for frontline groups’ from City Parochial and recommended the executive summary.

Renate mentioned the report and consultation event by Capacity Builders, which had been e-mailed to partners. Ali will be attending the event on 5^th February and any comments from partners can be sent to him.

9. Date of next meeting – Partners Awayday

Tuesday, 6^th March 2007   10.00 – 17.00Partners agreed that content of the Awayday would be around Code of conduct for the partnership’ (facilitated by Ian and Mike), ‘Partnership Working (facilitated by Ruth) and leaflet for the launch of ChangeUp.