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Strategic Partnerships

Strategic partnerships

WACA leads voluntary and community sector representation on Winchester District Strategic Partnership (link)– Diana Wooldridge is a member of the WDSP Board and of the Executive.
WACA’s role is to promote and support the effective representation of voluntary and community groups in all the specialist supporting partnerships. Links to the key partnerships where WACA is plays an active role are below:

Children & Young People’s Partnership
Working towards a strategy to meet the needs of children and young people in the district. A Play Strategy for Winchester has now been developed.
http://www.wdsp.co.uk/cypp/home

Community Learning Forum
Working to identify the lifelong learning priorities of the local community. The Forum also provides the ‘voice of the learner’ perspective to the Winchester District Strategic Partnership by acting as its learning ‘arm’.
http://www.wdsp.co.uk/learning/home

Community Safety Partnership
Working to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour
http://www.wdsp.co.uk/communitysafety/home

Health and Wellbeing Partnership
Leading voluntary sector involvement in the review of health partnership working following Primary Care Trust reorganisation. The Winchester district now falls within the Hampshire Primary Care Trust West Area.
http://www.wdsp.co.uk/hw/home

Sport and Physical Activity Alliance
Made up of key local statutory and voluntary organisations with an interest in sport and physical activity.
http://www.wdsp.co.uk/spaa/home

Transport and Access Forum
Working to improve accessibility for all sections of the community.
http://www.wdsp.co.uk/transport/home

Social Inclusion Partnership
This group brings together people from statutory and voluntary agencies working in the Winchester district with a focus on developing an inclusive society in which every resident, especially the young and the elderly, the vulnerable and the marginalized, has a sense of belonging.

Operating as a sub-group of the Winchester District Strategic Partnership, its main aims are:
• to make recommendations to the WDSP on strategic issues relating to social inclusion
• to identify the gaps in the Community Strategy and service provision, and
• to co-ordinate the implementation of steps to address social inclusion.

The SIP is chaired by Beth Taylor, who represents the faith sector on the Winchester District Strategic Partnership, and supported by Winchester Area Community Action.
The BME Steering Group (link) is a subgroup of the Social Inclusion partnership
For further information contact: Paul Williams, WACA - pwilliams@waca.org.uk
http://www.wdsp.co.uk/SIP/home
 

Winchester District Strategic Partnership  www.wdsp.co.uk and voluntary sector representation
WDSP is organised with a Board, chaired by Cllr George Beckett, leader of Winchester City Council, and a smaller Executive Group chaired by Margaret Newbigin of A2 Dominion Care and Support. Diana Wooldridge, WACA Chief Executive, represents the voluntary and community sector on both the Full Board and the Executive, and is vice-chair.
WDSP works through five Strategic Outcome Groups (SOGS), listed below.  Each has a number of supporting partnerships and forums as described below, most of which have voluntary sector representation. Full details of the SOGs are on the WDSP website – www.wdsp.co.

FREEDOM FROM FEAR STRATEGIC OUTCOME GROUP:
Chair:  Bob Merrett, WCC
VCS lead rep: Paul Williams, WACA
Other VCS representatives: Victim Support

HEALTH & WELLBEING STRATEGIC OUTCOME GROUP
Chair: Christine Jackson, Hampshire PCT
VCS lead rep: Paul Williams

Older Persons Partnership
Chair: Gill Sweeney, HCC Adult Services
VCS reps – Elizabeth McKerracher, WACA; Jenny Meadows, CAB; Mike Davies, Age Concern Winchester

Sport and Physical Activity Alliance
Chair: Stuart Barlow, Sparsholt College
VCS rep: David Bradshaw, Volunteer Centre, WACA

Winchester Children and Young People Partnership
Chair: Lin Ferguson, HCC Children’s Services
Vice Chair:  Elizabeth McKerracher, WACA

ECONOMIC PROSPERITY STRATEGIC OUTCOME GROUP
Chair: Cllr George Beckett
VCS rep – Elizabeth McKerracher, WACA

HIGH QUALITY ENVIRONMENT STRATEGIC OUTCOME GROUP
Chair- Robert Hutchison, Win ACC
Transport Sub- group
Chair: Nick Farthing, Sustrans
VCS rep: Stuart Banks – WACA Transport Services

INCLUSIVE SOCIETY STRATEGIC OUTCOME GROUP
Chair: Beth Taylor
Contact details: Paul Williams, WACA

Winchester Housing Board
Chair: Margaret Newbigin, A2 Dominion Care and Support
VCS rep – Diana Wooldridge