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About the Barking and Dagenham Partnership

‘Working together for a better borough'

The Barking and Dagenham Partnership brings together all those who want to make Barking and Dagenham a better place to live, study, work, play and visit.

The Barking and Dagenham Partnership was set up in 2001 to work together to provide a coordinated strategic approach to delivering services, and improving the quality of life for local people and communities in the borough.

It brings together the Council, health services, police and fire service, working with local businesses, representatives of the voluntary and community sector and members of the local community.

The Partnership is a non-statutory and non executive organisation, but includes the statutory Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership (Barking and Dagenham’s Safer Borough Board) as required by the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 and the Children's Trust, set up as a result of the Children's Act 2004, and made statutory in 2005

The role of the partnership is to oversee the implementation of the Local Area Agreement and the realisation of the Borough's 2020 vision set out in the Community Plan 

Our Partnership Vision

The vision of the Barking and Dagenham Partnership is ‘Working together for a better borough’.

We are working to six Community Priorities to ensure that everybody can live, work and thrive in a borough that is

Safe,

Clean,

Fair and respectful,

Prosperous and

Healthy,

and where our young people are inspired and successful.'

Partnership Boards

The structure of the partnership consists of the Public Service Board which oversees the delivery of six themed sub-groups

The themed boards are each responsible for a number of National Indicators as stated in our Local Area Agreement, as well as strategic programmes of work by developing policy and strategy in response to government initiatives.

The six themed boards are

Additional support is also provided by a range of delivery units (organisational services and task groups) and strategic resources including the Policy and Partnerships Team

For more detailed information on each partnership sub-group, click on the links above, or on the relevant board link under Partnership Boards.