Decision details

The Council and Team Doncaster Partnership have embarked upon an ambitious programme to ensure that all individuals, communities and places feel the impact of the Doncaster Growing Together Strategy – the Partnerships guiding plan of action.
This commitment includes an agreement to develop a specific local focus of partnership working, including a major joint effort on prevention – spotting and stemming the flow of issues and concerns before they become acute. This joint local focus will be ever more important in the post Covid-19 period, and a localised, community driven approach has been agreed as a key mean to deliver the Mayor’s published Recovery and Renewal Plan.

To formally establish a temporary Localities Team to design, develop and implement the locality working model and request funding of £604,490 from the Council’s Service
Transformation Fund. Details of the roles is outlined below and a proposed structure chart attached

Do Nothing – locality working is a significant Council and partnership policy drive and will help to meet many of the Mayoral and partnership recovery and renewal priorities.
Doing nothing is not an option.

Use other mainstream posts – this has been considered but at this stage other mainstream service resources are incredibly stretched and there would not be capacity to develop and drive this programme.