Overview

The Vision of Surrey in 2020 anticipated much of the direction of travel of the Government's place shaping and community leadership agenda. It is clear that engaging and involving local people in planning and delivering the vision and facilitating partners working together to deliver better services in a more cost effective way are critical success factors in realising the 2020 vision and meeting the expectations of our communities. The Surrey Strategic Partnership is our primary forum for this.

Structure

The Surrey Strategic Partnership (SSP) brings together key organisations to work for the benefit of the county. The leaders of Surrey's main accountable, publicly funded organisations will meet, along with representatives from the private and third sectors, to agree the strategic direction for the partnership and secure the ownership and support of key organisations.

A portfolio of five thematic partnerships will underpin the Leadership Group, which will inform strategic decision-making, develop thematic programmes of work designed to achieve the required benefits, commission that work and report on progress. The Community Strategy Delivery Management Group comprising Chief Officers from the thematic partnerships will coordinate work across the themes, drive delivery and report to the Leadership Group. Thematic partnerships will commission delivery through project boards and other delivery units and will draw upon the expertise of existing subject and geographic networks and partnerships to inform direction setting and to support delivery planning and execution.