Partnership Executive

Partnership Executive

The Partnership Executive is the group which makes the decisions of the Partnership Board happen. It is chaired by the Leader of the Council in their capacity as Chair of the Partnership , ensuring a clear link with the Partnership Board. The Lead Members for Regeneration , Localisation and Community Partnership, and Employment and Skills all have a standing invite to all meetings.

The Partnership Executive can only take decisions that are within the powers delegated to chief officers by their respective organisations and is not a decision making body in its own right.

The main role of the Executive is be to bring together the most senior officers of those organisations primarily responsible for delivering public services in Tower Hamlets, so that:

Management actions in each of the partner organisations are co-ordinated and designed to optimise and accelerate delivery of the Community Plan;
Performance management of LAA targets is overseen by chief officers at a partnership level;
Opportunities for co-operation, shared services and efficiency are identified and realised;
Actions that require Board level approval (e.g. Cabinet in the case of the Council) are progressed through the governance arrangements of each of the delivery organisations.

The Executive brings the key elements of the work of the previous Excellent Public Services CPAG and the LAA Cross Block meetings. It meets six times a year and three weeks before the Partnership Board meets.

It has the key function of strategic co-ordination for the Partnership with responsibility for implementing the decisions of the Partnership Board, to which it is directly accountable.

The Executive brings together the chief officers of the main partners as well as the voluntary and community sector umbrella body. Its overall purpose is to drive delivery of the Local Area Agreement and the Community Plan. A key responsibility for the group is to ensure the One Tower Hamlets theme crosses all areas of work and reflect key borough wide initiatives such as the Olympics.

It is also tasked with bringing challenge, ambition, acceleration and excellence to the quality and improvement of services across Tower Hamlets. In particular, the remit is to focus on risks to delivery and identify and broker solutions.