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Strengthening Collaboration with the CHYPP
The Organisation  

The Children and Young People's Partnership (CHYPP) is a collaboration of like-minded organisations working towards the following vision of a participative future:

  • That all children and young people are given opportunity and assistance, where required, to participate meaningfully in decision making that affects them, as individuals and collectively.
  • That all organisations, agencies and services that affect children and young people have structures and systems in place to support the fullest implementation of children and young people's participation rights within the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
  
The need  

CHYPP had been in place for 3 years, funded by the DfES, to generate greater sharing in the voluntary and community sector on participation. A key output was the development of an internet gateway, www.participationworks.org.uk (PW). This brings together in one e-location all the materials that each partner has on participation plus that available through other e-sources. The initial 3-year funding was drawing to a close and CHYPP had secured additional 3-year funding from a new source so wanted to review its structure and ways of working to provide solid foundations from which a new wave of development could begin.
What we did  

CHYPP commissioned Jacqueline Hill of J Hill Associates to co-design and deliver a two-day workshop to provide the partnership with a springboard for the next stage in its development. Jacqueline worked with the CHYPP partners to develop an agenda and test the design of the sessions. On the first day of the workshop the partners reviewed the benefits of the partnership, their experiences of team working, and developed an agreed view of the things they would like to stop, start and continue, as a basis for working together in the future. The partners then gave short presentations on their organisations, services and products to provide the input for the afternoon's session on clarifying the distinctions/complementarities of each. Participants spent the evening of the first day engaging in a relationship-building exercise that enabled members from each organisation to identify and discuss their expectations of each other and to build on the learning from working with together in the previous three years. The second day concentrated on planning. Small sub-groups worked together on key issues and the workshop ended with agreements on next steps and a communications plan.
Benefits  

Participants gained:

  • An agreement on the aims, objectives of CHYPP
  • A better understanding of one another's products and work and how they fit together as a package of support to organisations more widely
  • Greater clarity about each organisation's contribution (to CHYPP) and increased commitment
  • Greater clarity about the relationships between the partnership members
  • A plan and commitment for actions in the coming months
  • Good foundations from which to develop deeper working relationships and greater team ethic to aid future collaboration, and to enable partners to feel able and confident to actively participate on an equitable basis.

Barbara Hearn, Deputy Chief Executive from the National Children's Bureau, and CHYPP Partner commented "We made very significant demands of J Hill Associates and they more than stood up to the challenge taking us through our watershed to a new and more strongly rooted partnership."

  
   

 

 
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