Partnerships

South Oxfordshire District Council's statement of strategic intent is 'to work in partnership to maintain and improve the quality of life in South Oxfordshire'.

What is partnership working?

Put simply a partnership is two or more organisations working together towards common interests and goals.

Partnership working has many benefits including:

Sharing resources to achieve common goals
Access to ideas and skills of others
Support to maintain momentum and commitment
Learning from seeing others' perspective
Ability to secure funding that requires partnership working
Deliver an end result which is satisfactory to a wide range of people

Partnerships in South Oxfordshire

The Audit Commission has commended the Council for its partnership working. Its report states that 'partners rate the Council as having a strong commitment to working in partnership.' The report also highlights some ways in which the Council could seek to further improve.

The Council has also carried out an internal audit of its partnership activity to identify the number of partnerships, their aims and options for the future. The audit report is available from the menu on the right.

The South Oxfordshire Partnership is the Local Strategic Partnership for the area and has produced 'Our place, our future: the sustainable community strategy for South Oxfordshire.'

Partnerships in Oxfordshire

The Oxfordshire Partnership (OP) This link will take you to an external website... brings together organisations from the public, private, voluntary and community sectors to focus their efforts on those things that are important to people who live in, work in and visit Oxfordshire and, more importantly, to do something about them.

This includes the Oxfordshire 2030 This link will take you to an external website... the Sustainable Community Strategy for the whole of Oxfordshire, the Local Area Agreement This link will take you to an external website... , the structure and activities of the Partnership and the Oxfordshire Data Observatory This link will take you to an external website... .