The Delivery Board
Role
- Lead the drafting of the Sustainable Community Strategy and ensure that it is properly focussed and deliverable, and lead the development of the new 2008 Local Area Agreement and its subsequent annual refresh.
- Have responsibility for the delivery of the Sustainable Community Strategy, and Local Area Agreement and for implementing action in theme groups and partner organisations. This includes performance management of the Sustainable Community Strategy and Local Area Agreement , on an exceptions basis, looking for opportunities to support agencies where necessary (taking on the responsibilities of the Local Area Agreement Programme Board)
- Review and challenge delivery plans of statutory partner agencies in light of the shared strategic understanding. The Delivery Board should strengthen mutual accountability through holding each other to account.
- Open up lines of communication and develop agreement between agencies. In a time of declining resources to maximise the advantages to be gained from joint working and discussion
- Take operational decisions particularly about issues spanning more than one theme
- Report regularly to the DSP Partnership Board on the achievements towards the delivery of the Sustainable Community Strategy and Local Area Agreement
- Ensure partnership working is effective and propose changes where problems occur
- Commission thinking and research to feed into strategy formulation (e.g. from the Devon Futures Group)
- Make clear links between county-wide priorities and the work of each of the themed partnerships, including linkages between themes
- Strive for an effective balance between thematic and geographical focus
- To individually and collectively act as advocates for the delivery of the Sustainable Community Strategy and Local Area Agreement
- Take issues back into members' organisations and champion partnership delivery.
- Drive the shared services and efficiency agenda, which extends beyond local government.
- Drive the development of a Devon response to the Government's new performance regime.
- Work together more effectively on communication and PR in relation to the big issues
- Provide high-level co-ordination of resilience planning
Operation
- Meet every month for the first year, to be reviewed after the sign off of the Sustainable Community Strategy (or refreshed Local Area Agreement) whichever is the later
Membership
- West Devon Borough Council - Chief Executive
- South Hams District Council - Chief Executive
- Torridge District Council - Chief Executive
- North Devon District Council - Chief Executive
- Teignbridge District Council - Chief Executive
- Exeter City Council - Chief Executive
- Mid Devon District Council - Chief Executive
- East Devon District Council - Chief Executive
- Devon Primary Care Trust - Chief Executive
- Devon County Council - Chief Executive
- Devon & Cornwall Constabulary - Chief Constable
- Environment Agency - Area Manager, Devon & Cornwall
- Natural England - Area Manager, Devon & Cornwall
- Learning & Skills Council - Partnership Director
- Government Office for the South West - Lead for Devon
- South West Regional Development Agency - Director of Operations Devon
- Job Centre Plus - District Manager
- The Devon Fire and Rescue Service - Chief Fire Officer
- Dartmoor National Park Authority - Chief Executive (National Park Officer)
- Midas Group Ltd - Chair
- Torbay Council - Chief Executive
- Plymouth City Council - Head of Corporate Planning
