Networking and Community Partnership by Steve Trevillion

Author:Steve Trevillion [Trevillion, Steve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, General
ISBN: 9781138333741
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Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-07-30T00:00:00+00:00

Linking stakeholder and service agency networks can be successful provided that the process is carefully managed and attention is paid to the creation of a consensus. The fact that irreconcilable differences are not mentioned suggests that, perhaps, areas of ‘common ground’ will always be found if there is enough commitment to finding them.

Brokers and representatives

As we saw in Chapter 4, there are many examples of inter-agency networks which depend on specific brokers. Community care is a notable example of what I have called ‘systems brokerage’. However, not all inter-agency networks fall into this category. Brokers tend to be associated with those initiatives where a particular agency is primarily responsible for the success of an initiative. In the case of community care, local authorities have been identified as the ‘lead agency’ and it is therefore not surprising to find that they sometimes take on the role of ‘systems broker’. However, even within the broad context of community care, some issues are likely to be driven forward by other agencies as much as by social services departments.

A close look at the work of the London Health Partnership shows that issues such as hospital discharge may be a matter of such grave concern to so many organisations that it would be false to describe the process of establishing a partnership as dependent on one particular agency acting as a broker. All those involved actively seek to represent their issues and concerns. The reality is that everyone is active and everyone networks with everyone else. Networks like this might be best described as representative networks, in that each agency is actively represented and the representatives as a whole manage the partnership system.

As with any other kind of networking, inter-agency networking operates at a number of different levels simultaneously and what follows applies equally to those networks based on specific brokers and those consisting of linked representatives.

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