ONE HULL

Local Strategic Partnerships were created by the Government to bring together representatives from all sectors within an area such as community and faith groups, the council, police and fire & rescue services, charities, businesses, schools, health bodies etc. By pooling experience and expertise, LSPs can understand local people, places and problems and make sure the right actions are taken and right services delivered.

In Hull, the LSP is called ONE HULL and it is responsible for delivering the Community Strategy and the Local Area Agreement.

 

ONE HULL Structure:

 

Executive Group of ONE HULL

The Executive Group drives Partnership delivery and is accountable for the ONE HULL performance to Government. It is chaired by Cllr Carl Minns, Leader of Hull City Council.

Responsible for commissioning activities through the four Strategic Delivery Partnerships, its members also oversee the effectiveness of subsequent delivery and evaluates progress against key milestones set out in the City’s Sustainable Community Strategy and Local Area Agreement targets. Working at a strategic executive level, members ensure consistency between partnership strategies and delivery plans and that identified issues are acted upon.

Open recruitment selected two new members form the private sector and two new members form the voluntary and community sector. These ambassadors for Hull now work with key leaders from the City’s public sector organisations, including the Hull Teaching Primary Care Trust, Humberside Police and Hull City Council.

The Executive Group will also draw on the expertise of advisers when required, such as the Learning and Skills Council, the Regional Development Agency, Government Office for Yorkshire and the Humber and the Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder.

 

Hull Partnership of ONE HULL

The Hull Partnership, as far as is practicable, comprises of an equal number of representatives from organisations and agencies in the public, private, voluntary and community sectors, which are actively involved in the City.

Members are expected to represent the breadth of opinion within their identified organisation, sector, community, constituency or partnership. Therefore, the Hull Partnership can also act as a broad reference group for consultation on identified issues. Representation will also be given from the Strategic Delivery Partnerships of ONE HULL and Standing Advisory Groups to ensure cross-cutting issues can be discussed.

Membership from the community and voluntary sector has been achieved using the Electoral Reform Society to ensure a transparent and fair process and to provide a direct link to the Areas, while the business sector held an election process through the respected ONE HULL Business Forum.

 

Strategic Delivery Partnerships of ONE HULL

The Strategic Delivery Partnerships (SDPs) of ONE HULL reflect the key aims of the Sustainable Community Strategy and are tasked with its co-ordination and delivery of specific key goals, as well as the Local Area Agreement.

The four SDPs of ONE HULL are: Earning, Learning, Health and Wellbeing and Safe. Each key theme will take responsibility for and advise the Executive Group on meeting agreed outcomes, priorities and improvement targets.

They will be accountable, and report regularly to the Executive Group, on performance – addressing under-performance through effective interventions. Members will also be responsible for co-ordinating delivery and reviewing progress in the delivery of targets.

 

Standing Advisory Groups of ONE HULL

In addition to the four themed Strategic Delivery Partnerships of ONE HULL, the Partnership recognises that there are many other issues which cut across the work of all our partners. In order to ensure that these key cross-cutting themes are embedded in, and addressed by, the work of the whole Partnership, ONE HULL has set up Standing Advisory Groups.

The Standing Advisory Groups are:

• Equalities and Cohesion - ensuring community cohesion and equity of outcomes, while promoting the understanding of diversity – and the benefits diversity brings - across the ONE HULL Partnership.
• Culture and Lifestyle - ensuring that the City’s cultural offering is capitalised upon and utilised to help deliver the Partnership’s aims and objectives.
• Environment and Climate Change – ensuring that key environment and climate change issues identified by the City are considered and addressed when partners are delivering on their aims and objectives.
• Citizen Empowerment & Engagement - ensuring compliance with the duty of partners to engage.

 

Area Partnerships of ONE HULL

Kingston-upon-Hull is divided into seven key areas, each with its own Hull City Council Area Committee. A local Area Partnership has been established in each of these areas. Seven Area Partnerships ensure that the Sustainable Community Strategy and Local Area Agreement 2 outcomes are achieved at a neighbourhood level.

 

The seven Area Partnerships play an important role in helping to sustain the aims of the Community Strategy and Local Area Agreement for delivery at a neighbourhood level.  Indeed, by actively engaging with key partners and residents, Area Partnerships can evaluate community assets and local needs at the heart of the community, identify priorities, and ensure service standards are met.

Further information on the Local Strategic Partnership, ONE HULL, can be found on its website: www.onehull.co.uk.