Partnerships

Background

The Suffolk Strategic Partnership (SSP) was officially created in 2001 in order to improve the quality of life of the people in Suffolk, streamline existing partnerships, and agree common aims and joint priorities and work on delivering these throughout Suffolk.

There are a number of different elements to the SSP including; the SSP Board, the SSP Performance Management Group (PMG) and nine thematic Delivery Partnerships. Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs) also have a role in working with the SSP. Further information on these partnerships can be found on the relevant pages on this site.

Role and Responsibilities

The primary aim of the SSP is to set the long-term vision for Suffolk, focusing on strategic issues that need to be delivered or co-ordinated at county level. The SSP complements, and is informed by, local and thematic plans with success being dependent on influence rather than authority (for example: influencing the distribution of SSP partners' mainstream resources). By streamlining previous partnerships, the SSP aims to improve partnership working by (for example) reducing duplication of workloads and encouraging the sharing of useful information, thus promoting and increasing efficiency and effectiveness. The SSP's emphasis will be on the implementation and delivery of its vision, aims and priorities and at all times will be inclusive, community driven, and informed by local strategies.

Resources

Though one of the key aims of the SSP is to influence the distribution of the partners' mainstream funding programmes (for example: health, crime prevention, education) towards locally determined and agreed priorities, in the past the SSP has also received certain specific resources which have been duly awarded across agencies in Suffolk for meeting particularly challenging targets. In 2006/2007, the SSP received £1.7 million which was awarded to projects which aimed to meet local priorities. For more information please visit the Performance Reward Grant (PRG) page.

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