The Vale Partnership recognises that tackling issues like crime, jobs, education, health and housing requires a range of key organisations to work in partnership with local communities in the Vale.
Why partnership working matters?
Public, private and voluntary sector organisations all have a part to play in improving quality of life and the more they work together the more they can achieve.
If partnerships work well it is likely that:-
- Duplication of effort is avoided by organisations working together to achieve common goals
- Limited resources will be shared and more can be achieved
Which organisations are at the centre of the Vale Partnership?
The Vale Partnership has a Board. The Board is made up of the organizations that are taking the lead in showing that partnership working can make a real difference. The members of the Board are:
- Vale of White Horse District Council
- Abingdon and Witney College
- Thames Valley Police
- Environment Agency
- Learning and Skills Council
- Government Office for the South East
- Age Concern Oxfordshire
- Oxfordshire Primary Care Trust
- Oxfordshire County Council
- Thames Water
- Vale Housing Association
- Diocese of Oxford
- Business Link
- Oxfordshire Primary Head Teachers' Association
- Oxfordshire Secondary Schools Head Teachers' Association
The Vale Community Strategy
Following a period of extensive community consultation the Partnership Board has produced the Vale Community Strategy. The Vale Community Strategy identifies key issues of concern in the area and details how the Vale Partnership will work with the local community to address them.
Download the Vale Community Strategy
Read the latest minutes
To find out more about the current work of the Board read the minutes of their meetings. You can download the minutes here.- Minutes of the meeting of 27 February 2007
- Council plans to consult residents on their local priorities for a sustainable community strategy
- Key issues affecting Vale residents
- Priorities for partner organisations
- Reviewing membership of the Board to help achieve community priorities
- Minutes of the meeting of 12 December 2006
- Local Government White Paper briefing
- Extended Schools presentation
- The "South West Arc" or Quadrant (Grove- Harwell-Didcot)
- The proposed reservoir - second-stage consultation
- Improving the sustainability of the Community Strategy
- Safe and Supportive Communities - the Night Safe Scheme
- Local Area Agreement Update
- Minutes of the meeting of 20 September 2006
- Minutes of the meeting of 15 June 2006
- Minutes of the meeting of 9 March 2006
- Minutes of the meeting of 8 December 2005
- Minutes of the meeting of 12 September 2005
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Why partnership working matters
Which organisations are at the centre of the Vale Partnership?