York's Model of Joint Partnership working (co-production)

Appendix 1: Audit Cycle and Tool September 2020

Joint Partnership Audit Framework

Education, Health and Social Services in York who provide support to children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) have agreed to embed Joint Partnership working with children, young people, and families as a standard quality mark.

This applies to aspects of individual work with children, young people and their families in developing their Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) or when developing services.

Together in York we have developed and agreed a model of joint partnership working which should be followed to ensure children, young people and families all experience a consistent approach and services will develop knowledge and skills in using the 6 core principles on Joint Partnership working to guide their practice and becomes the norm.

To measure how effective services are and to ensure a continual cycle of improvement in Joint Partnership working an audit process will be undertaken resulting in a mechanism of feedback to describe successes and where areas of improvement are required. This should always be seen as a positive experience for all of those involved.

Audit framework

As mentioned earlier there are 2 areas of Joint Partnership working: individual and service development.

• individual evidence related to individual Joint Partnership working for the development of EHCPs will be measured in the EHCP Quality Assurance Framework
• service development will be captured using a partnership approach across services with a centralised point of collated evidence.

Service development

Please refer to the model for ideas of Joint Partnership working within your own service and how this may be expedited. Services should aim to develop at least 1 service per year through Joint Partnership.

The 6 core principles of joint partnership working will form the benchmark of quality standards to be audited and the tool to capture this can be seen in appendix 1.

Services themselves are expected to carry out their own audit of joint partnership working and submit the summary evidence using the tool to City of York Council and NHS vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group to email: [email protected].

This will allow us to collate all the projects of joint partnership working and develop a local portfolio of this work to:

• offer positive and tailored support in areas requiring development
• inform and shape our future joint partnerships events and develop the model further if required

For further advice, support or information from City of York Council email: [email protected] or NHS Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group email: [email protected] and state ‘Joint Partnership’ query in the subject box.