A. The ONE HULL Partnership – by sharing resources and decision making - seeks to improve the quality of life of local people. A key purpose of its work is to ‘narrow the gap’ between poorer communities across the City and in relation to the rest of the country in areas such as crime, health, education and the economy.
The seven Area Partnerships also play an important role in helping to sustain the aims of the Partnership for delivery at community level.
Reducing crime and the fear of crime in the City, securing new jobs, creating a skilled workforce in the City, must go hand-in-hand with other crucial areas of work, such as improving health, tackling teenage pregnancy and smoking, improving attainment at schools, as well as creating further learning, skills and entrepreneurial opportunities for people of all ages.
ONE HULL partners have also been involved in the setting up COMPACT (an agreement that provides a framework for developing effective relationships between the public and voluntary and community sectors), as well as key documents such as such as Hull’s Volunteering Strategy and Hull together (the community cohesion strategy for the City).
Some of the initiatives delivered or supported through the Partnership include:
If we take the Safe Strategic Delivery Partnership of ONE HULL as an example, we can see how partners have worked together to tackle drug misuse, developed hate crime initiatives, alcohol awareness projects, while reducing domestic burglary, car crime and antisocial behaviour across the City.
A. From 2008 ONE HULL is set to receive nearly £40m as part of the Working Neighbourhoods Fund (WNF) to tackle worklessness and enterprise over the next three years.
The Government Working Neighbourhoods Fund (WNF) is a new dedicated fund which now incorporates the Department of Work and Pensions Deprived Areas Fund (DAF).
Areas of work will focus on:
A. In order to co-ordinate these challenging goals, the Partnership is made up of a family of partnerships tasked with the delivery of specific goals.
As a result of the new LAA 2 – with four main themes of Learning, Earning, Health and Well-being and Safe - the structure of ONE HULL has changed in order to focus on delivering those identified priorities.
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A. ONE HULL appreciates the valuable role, residents, the private and public sectors, as well as voluntary and community organisations have to play in creating a better City and improving the quality of life for local people.
ONE HULL also works closely with the Hull Business Forum (HBF), which provides a vital link to the City's business community.
Seven Area Partnerships across the City also provide a vital link to the voluntary and community sectors.
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A. Public sector agencies like Hull City Council, the Hull Teaching Care Trust and Humberside Police, work alongside community and voluntary groups, such as Age Concern, the Community Wardens, and the North Bank Forum. In some key areas of this affiliation, private organisations and business leaders from across the City also have an important stake and role to play.
The key body that brings together the public, private, voluntary and community sectors to create a better City is Hull’s Local Strategic Partnership (LSP) ONE HULL. This Partnership works collectively to achieve important goals set out in the Community Strategy and Local Area Agreement 2, which includes both local and Government targets.
There is a small Executive Team, with secondees from partners, to assist the Partnership in its work.
A. The Community Strategy Living Learning Working sets out how a range of public partners, as well as organisations from the, private, voluntary and community sectors, will work together to create a safe, healthy and more prosperous City.
The Local Area Agreement (LAA2) is seen as building upon the vision and priorities set out in the Community Strategy, which recognises that Hull has much to be proud of – but still faces many challenges.
Key issues to be grasped include:
The LAA prioritises those goals and gives responsibility to individuals and organisations to be accountable for meeting key targets and milestones, which are constantly monitored and re-evaluated. The agreement aims to simplify complex funding streams in order to create more flexibility in the provision of services which meet local needs.
The LSP is responsible for both key documents and in how partners work collectively to create a City where people want to live in, work in and invest in. In this context, ONE HULL is also about sharing common goals, information and areas of best practice – acting like ambassadors for local people while sharing the benefits partnership working can bring.