Membership & Structure
Harrogate District Strategic Partnership (HDSP)
Delivery Structure
To view the structure summary diagram click below:
To view the membership please see the terms of
reference.
The structure consists of:
- LSP Assembly: Who will set the long-term vision and the overall strategic direction of the Partnership. The Assembly will provide leadership for the District, be an influencing body and be strategic decision makers. The Assembly will meet twice a year and host the annual conference. The Assembly will provide the links into the North Yorkshire Strategic Partnership and the Leeds City Region.
- LSP Implementation Board: Who will be responsible and accountable to the Assembly for delivery. The implementation Board will review performance against priorities, targets, outcomes and milestones held within the Sustainable Community Strategy, Local Area Agreement and any other agreed actions. They will co-ordinate the work of the thematic partnerships, have oversight of cross cutting issues and steer collective partnership capacity. The Board will meet bi-monthly.
- LSP Network: Who will be a virtual network of partners to whom key messages and updates on the work of the Partnership will be sent to on a regular basis in order to engage with the wider community.
- Thematic groups:
Safer Communities: This is represented in its
current form of the Harrogate District Safer Communities
Partnership (HDSCP) who will deliver against the
Partnership Plan Priorities 2008-11: Safer Neighbourhoods,
Safer Roads, Alcohol & Substance Misuse, Crime (violent crime,
domestic abuse), Engaging with communities including reassurance
and confidence
Children and Young People:
The Harrogate Children and Young People Area Liaison Group (ALG)
administered by the North Yorkshire Children & Young Peoples
Service, Integrated Services Team will be the main partnership
within the Harrogate District to address and co-ordinate Children
and Young People work areas. The Group's existing work remit and
area coverage is to be developed further over the next few months
to ensure that it can be all encompassing.
Environment Group: The existing Harrogate
District Action For Environment Group membership has been extended
into a wider Environment Thematic Group. The role of the group will
be to deliver in partnership a programme of environmental aspects
including climate change mitigation and adaptation, energy
efficiency and biodiversity. Three task and finish groups are being
scoped focusing on Bio diversity, climate change adaptation and CO
2 reduction.
Stronger Communities: The group will focus
on four priority areas of neighbourhood management, community
cohesion through Prevent, healthier communities and participatory
budgeting.
Sustainable Communities: The proposal is to
develop an overarching Sustainable Communities Group within the
Harrogate District to pull together representatives from existing
groups to address cross cutting economic sustainability issues and
priority areas (including economy, employment and skills, housing,
sustainable development, tourism, culture, regeneration and
transport).
Task and Finish Groups: These will be
established/ commissioned to deliver specific pieces of work, for
example there are proposals for groups on the Local Development
Framework.
A conference will be held annually for the wider
network.
Membership of the Partnership will be public, private,
voluntary and community sector organisations that are committed to
strategic and collaborative working. The Partnership will have the
ability to include a number of advisors as non-voting co-opted
members. These advisors will be from regional or sub-regional
organisations whose roles will be to assist and advise the
Partnership on policy and strategy.
In order to reduce duplication of work, share best practice
and skills, increase and improve joined up working, enhance
working relations and to maintain links both within the
District and at a countywide level many of the officers at the
HDSP level also represent and feed into countywide
thematic partnership groups.
Harrogate District Strategic Partnership-
Chair
The Chair of the Partnership is Councillor Mike Gardner and
can be contacted on the details below:
Cllr Dr Mike Gardner, Chair, Harrogate District Strategic
Partnership, Harrogate Borough Council
c/o Member Services, Department of Resources
Harrogate Borough Council, Council Offices, Crescent Gardens,
Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG1 2SG
Officer Support
For all enquiries please contact Ann Byrne, Corporate
Partnership Development Officer, Harrogate Borough Council at HDSP@Harrogate.gov.uk or
01423 556067
Harrogate Borough Council
Department of Corporate Policy & Improvement
Harrogate Borough Council, Council Offices, Crescent Gardens,
Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG1 2SG