The Strategic Partnership for Adults is a thematic partnership within the North Yorkshire Strategic Partnership (NYSP).  As such, it will advise the NYSP on the content of its strategy and will support the delivery of the strategy in relation to adults.

 

The purpose of the group is to provide a forum in which the member bodies can work together to plan and deliver services in relation to adults jointly and to ensure that statutory, voluntary and independent sector services within North Yorkshire work together to ensure that all adults are enabled to live independent lives in socially inclusive communities.  Particular attention will be given to the needs of those members of the community who are vulnerable to social exclusion due to: physical or learning disability; mental health problems; long term medical conditions; sensory impairment or frailty due to old age and their carers.

   

The Strategic Partnership for Adults in North Yorkshire will aim to:

 

 

The partnership will establish programmes for the delivery of outcomes for adults and will maintain an overview of performance in relation to those outcomes.  These will be based upon an analysis of local need and on an understanding of community priorities.  In particular, the partnership will develop and oversee the delivery of its contribution to the Local Area Agreement for North Yorkshire in relation to adults for the period 2007-2010, working with those agencies and partnerships at the local and strategic level which need to be engaged in that work.

 

The strategic partnership will be chaired by the County Council’s Corporate Director – Adult and Community Services and will include membership of key local stakeholders as follows:

 

Each member must be at a level of seniority to have delegated decision-making responsibilities for the organisation they represent.

  

Members of the group are to nominate substitutes where they are not able to attend future meetings of the group in order to prevent non-attendance.  Any substitutes must be at a sufficiently senior level to hold delegated decision-making responsibilities for the organisation they represent.

 

The group’s membership will be formally reviewed every 12 months. 

 

 

The quorum at all meetings of the ASP shall be 25% of the full membership.  If, at any time, there is not a quorum present, the meeting shall not proceed.

 

 

Meetings will be held monthly during March, April and May 2006.  At the May 2006 meeting a decision will taken about future meetings and a programme of meetings for the rest of the year will be produced. 

 

In addition to individual accountability to the employing organisation of each representative the group as a whole will be accountable to the Strategic Partnership Steering Group.  Close links will be maintained with the Local Area Agreement Management Group to ensure delivery of the LAA.

 

Accountability for aspects of the group’s function outside the LAA will continue to be maintained via current and future performance management frameworks for statutory partners.

 

In taking the lead in relation to adults as a thematic partnership within the North Yorkshire Strategic Partnership, the group will ensure that communications with stakeholders, including service users and carers, are effective and in particular that there are arrangements in place to ensure that:

The Strategic Partnership will be administered by North Yorkshire County Council who will provide administrative support for meetings such as agenda preparation, circulation and minute taking.

 

Agendas and all associated papers will be distributed in hard copy to all group members and nominated substitutes 7 days in advance of a forthcoming meeting.  Formal minutes will be produced after each meeting and will be distributed in hard copy to all group members and nominated substitutes within 10 days of the meeting taking place.

 

The work of the strategic partnership will link to a comprehensive range of local and national strategies including:

 

Local:

 

National:

 

 

17 March 2006