Partnerships
NCB believes effective partnership working
within and between statutory, private and voluntary agencies is
fundamental to improving the lives of children and young
people.
Partnership with children and young people is
at the heart of everything we do, as well as working with those
who work on their behalf. This is realised in many ways
– by establishing special interest groups, bringing together
new partnerships, hosting existing and developing new agencies,
providing infrastructure support and sharing core services with
other charities.
With nearly 30 fora, council, network and
partner programmes operating under our charitable status, we cover
issues ranging from play, youth justice to sex and relationship
education, and from early years, disability, children in care to
children living with HIV.
In addition to the infrastructure support
provided for programmes operating under our charitable status, NCB
offers our shared services model to external agencies and voluntary
organisations working with children, young people and families
wishing to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their
operations.
We also work in partnership with
Children in Scotland
and Children in
Wales.
NCB partnership working includes:
- Membership – NCB’s
membership opens up dialogue across its multi-agency network of
children’s services professionals.
- Partnership projects or
programmes – Working in partnership with other agencies
provides the ownership that is essential to influence policy-makers
and improve practice.
- Shared services – NCB
provides core services within a shared service context to all staff
in participating organisations.
- Office space – NCB rents
office space to other charities working in the Children’s
sector.
- Fora, councils and networks
– NCB hosts a range of fora, councils and networks which are either
single issue or single client group bodies operating under our
charitable status. Each one is also answerable to the wider group
of organisations that makes up its specialist audience.