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Improving Effectiveness – the Hallmarks of Effective Partnerships

During the time that partnership working on crime and community safety issues has been in place, we, and our delivery partners, have learnt what characterises effective partnerships by appraising the way in which high-performing partnerships conduct their business. It is the desire to improve performance across all partnerships to a higher level that lies at the root of these Hallmarks and this guidance.

We are introducing the Hallmarks because we want:

• To ensure that all partnerships are functioning to an acceptable level of performance.
• To embed an intelligence-led way of doing partnership business.
• To enable communities to see the difference that effective partnerships can have in their area.
• To ensure that local communities are involved in shaping local priorities.
• To support the development of skills and knowledge across all partnerships.
• To increase partnership accountability in addressing crime and disorder matters.

The Hallmarks of Effective Partnerships are intended to summarise the core elements of effective partnership working. They provide a way for partnerships to check if they are delivering effectively or if there are areas where they should target improvements. They flow from the views of our stakeholders, our own work in supporting improvements in partnership performance at local level and from the Government’s broader reform agenda.

This guidance outlines six Hallmarks of effective practice. These are:

Each Hallmark then comprises two elements:

• New statutory requirements for partnership working.
• Suggested practice to achieve increased effective partnership working, using the statutory requirements as a foundation.

The suggested relationship between the statutory requirements and the Hallmarks is shown below.