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    • Rebalancing the Relationship: Final report
    • Executive summary
    • Introduction
    • Commissioning and procurement practice
    • Experiences of competition and collaboration
    • Motivations and drivers
    • Organisational culture and leadership
    • Conclusion
    • Putting collaboration into practice
    • Case Studies
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Rebalancing the Relationship: Final report

Published: 03 February 2021

  • Foreword
    • Acknowledgements
  • Executive summary
    • Introduction
    • Key findings
  • Introduction
    • Why this work matters
    • Underlying assumptions
    • Methods and process
    • Definitions and concepts
  • Commissioning and procurement practice
  • Experiences of competition and collaboration
    • Understanding negative experiences of competition and partnership
    • Understanding collaborative practices
    • Successful collaboration
  • Motivations and drivers
    • Motivations for collaboration
    • Valuing others
    • Perceived drivers of negative behaviours
  • Organisational culture and leadership
    • A collaborative culture
    • Attitude to growth and sustainability
    • Strategy and decision-making
    • Capacity and structure
    • Leadership
  • Conclusion
  • Putting collaboration into practice
  • Case Studies
    • Working with multiple smaller partners to deliver youth services (Creative Youth Network)
    • Collaborating to tackle sexual exploitation (Changing Lives and the STAGE partnership)
    • Funding a smaller organisation to deliver specialist housing support (P3 and Cohort 4 )
    • Supporting smaller charities to develop and take the lead (Shelter and SIFA Fireside)
    • Developing an Alliance to offer community mental health support (Somerset Mental Health Alliance)
    • Collaborating to deliver advocacy services (POhWER and Advocacy Matters)
    • Developing a large consortium to support women and girls experiencing violence (London VAWG Consortium)
    • Delivering mental health services with a large network of smaller organisations (Touchstone and Live Well Leeds)
  • Glossary
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